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…
Sala dei Nove — Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s fresco cycle on the walls of the Sala dei Nove is the most ambitious treatise on civic government produced in fourteenth-century Europe…
Italy’s Unsung Hero: The Story of Lemon Juice in Italian Culinary Tradition
Italy’s culinary legacy is not only defined by pasta and olive oil — citrus, especially lemons, plays a central role in the country’s food identity. Among…