Coppedè District
The Coppedè District is a small, unrepeatable architectural enclave in the Trieste-Salario area of Rome, designed by the Florentine architect Gino Coppedè (1866–1927) between 1915 and 1927. Across roughly seventeen…
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
Commissioned by Pietro Massimo and built between 1532 and 1536 by the Sienese architect Baldassarre Peruzzi, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne rose from the ruins left by the Sack of Rome…
Gallery of Geographical Maps
A 120-metre corridor inside the Vatican Museums, lined with forty monumental cartographic frescoes painted between 1580 and 1583 under the patronage of Pope Gregory XIII. The cycle was designed by…
Palazzo Pisani Moretta
Palazzo Pisani Moretta is a late-Gothic Venetian palace on the Grand Canal in the San Polo district, built in the second half of the 15th century and distinguished by a…
Passetto del Biscione
The Passetto del Biscione is a narrow covered passage in Rome’s Parione district, hidden between Piazza del Biscione and Via di Grotta Pinta a few steps from Campo de’ Fiori….
Rocca Sinibalda Castle
Perched above the Turano valley in the Sabina hills of Lazio, the Castello di Rocca Sinibalda is a Mannerist fortified residence whose pentagonal plan was famously interpreted by contemporaries as…
Aquarium of Genoa
The Aquarium of Genoa is the largest aquarium in Italy and the second largest in Europe, anchoring the redeveloped Porto Antico waterfront. Commissioned for Expo ’92 — the international exhibition…
Liberty Bridge (Ponte della Libertà)
The Ponte della Libertà is the 3.85-kilometre road causeway that links mainland Mestre to the historic islands of Venice across the lagoon. Designed by engineer Eugenio Miozzi and inaugurated on…
Villa Floridiana
Villa Floridiana stands on the Vomero hill above Naples, set within a landscape park of roughly eight hectares that opens onto a long panorama of the Bay of Naples. The…
Urban Park of the Palmenti
On the northern edge of Pietragalla, a hill town in inland Basilicata, roughly two hundred palmenti — small rural wine cellars dug into the tuff — form one of the…