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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
Villa Farnese, Caprarola
Villa Farnese rises above the village of Caprarola in northern Lazio as one of the defining Mannerist commissions of sixteenth-century Italy, designed…
Scrovegni Chapel
Between 1303 and 1305 the Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone covered every interior surface of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua with a unified fresco…
Cathedral Square, Ortigia
Piazza Duomo is the ceremonial heart of Ortigia, the small island that holds the historic core of Syracuse.
Abbey of Monte Cassino
Founded around 529 by Saint Benedict of Nursia on a rocky hill some 130 kilometres southeast of Rome, the Abbey of Monte Cassino is the first house…