Palazzo dell’Arte — Triennale di Milano by Giovanni Muzio – Virtual Tour 360°
Giovanni Muzio designed Palazzo dell’Arte between 1931 and 1933 as the permanent seat of the Triennale, freshly relocated from the Villa Reale of Monza. The…
Milano Centrale Station — Art Deco Monumental Terminal by Ulisse Stacchini – Virtual Tour 360°
Milano Centrale is the principal railway station of Milan and one of the largest terminals in Europe. The competition for its design was won in 1912 by the…
Arengario di Milano – Virtual Tour 360°
Two symmetrical stone towers close the southern end of Piazza del Duomo. Designed in 1937 by Portaluppi, Muzio, Magistretti and Griffini, begun in 1939 and…
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…
Lingotto FIAT — Test Track Factory by Giacomo Matté Trucco – Virtual Tour 360°
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…
Bastione di Saint Remy, Cagliari
A monumental belvedere and ceremonial staircase built over the Spanish bastions of Cagliari’s medieval Castello — a piece of late-nineteenth-century civic…
Basilica di Santa Croce, Lecce
The most exuberant single monument of the Barocco leccese, built over 150 years — a vertical anthology of carved pietra leccese supported by thirteen putti…
Trulli of Alberobello
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…
Rome Stratified: A Walk Through Two Thousand Years on the Same Square Mile
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.
Roma Antica — Walking Tour Centro Storico
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.