Sassi di Matera
Two cave-cut districts carved into a limestone ravine, continuously inhabited from the Paleolithic to 1952 — one of the oldest living settlements in the…
Two cave-cut districts carved into a limestone ravine, continuously inhabited from the Paleolithic to 1952 — one of the oldest living settlements in the…
Built between 1916 and 1923 by the engineer Giacomo Matté-Trucco for FIAT, the Lingotto is a five-storey reinforced-concrete car factory in southern Turin…
A monumental belvedere and ceremonial staircase built over the Spanish bastions of Cagliari’s medieval Castello — a piece of late-nineteenth-century civic…
The most exuberant single monument of the Barocco leccese, built over 150 years — a vertical anthology of carved pietra leccese supported by thirteen putti…
More than 1,500 dry-stone limestone dwellings with corbelled conical roofs, packed into two hillside quarters of the Itria Valley — the most intact surviving…
A 3 km walk from Palazzo Chigi to the Imperial Forums, threading Renaissance, Baroque, Risorgimento and Imperial Rome into one afternoon. Seven stops, mostly flat, best in spring or autumn.
A 1.2-kilometre walk across the centre of Rome, from the Vittoriano to the Renaissance facade of Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne: three stops and two thousand years on the same ground.
San Vitale is one of the most complete surviving examples of early Byzantine art in the West. The octagonal church was consecrated in 547, two years before…
Corniglia is the middle village of the five — the only one not on the water. It sits on a one-hundred-metre promontory of vine-terraced rock between Vernazza…
In a former alpine peat bog above Lake Carera, archaeologists pulled timber, ceramics, and woven baskets out of the mud for more than a century. The museum…