St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter’s Square is the elliptical forecourt of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, framed by the four-row Tuscan colonnade designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667. At…
Egyptian Museum of Turin
The Museo Egizio is the world’s oldest museum devoted entirely to ancient Egyptian culture and the second-largest Egyptological collection after the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. It was founded in 1824…
Brion Memorial
The Brion Memorial in San Vito d’Altivole is a monumental funerary complex designed by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa between 1969 and 1978, commissioned by Onorina Tomasin Brion in memory…
Boboli Gardens
The Boboli Gardens are a 45,000-square-metre Medici garden laid out behind the Pitti Palace in Florence from 1549, conceived for Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici. Carved…
Imperial Forums
The Imperial Forums are a complex of five monumental public squares built in Rome between 46 BCE and 113 CE by Julius Caesar, Augustus, Vespasian, Nerva and Trajan to extend…
Rose Garden
Below the parapet of Piazzale Michelangelo, a one-hectare terrace opens onto the rooftops of Florence, the Arno bend and the Duomo. Inside, more than three hundred rose varieties are arranged…
Sacra di San Michele
Perched at 962 metres on the rocky summit of Monte Pirchiriano, where the Val di Susa opens toward the Alps, the Sacra di San Michele rises as a fortress of…
Hospital of the Innocents
On the eastern side of Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, a slender colonnade of nine arches opens onto the square in measured intervals. Commissioned in 1419 from Filippo Brunelleschi by the…
Palazzo della Civilta Italiana
Italian Rationalism at its most theatrical scale: a travertine cube of 216 arches in Rome EUR, finished 1943 for an exposition that never opened. Architects Guerrini, La Padula, Romano. Fendi headquarters since 2015.
Tomb of Cecilia Metella
On the third mile of the Via Appia Antica, the cylindrical tomb of Cecilia Metella has watched Rome contract and expand for two millennia. The Caetani family…