Giulietta’s home
A 14th-century Gothic house on Verona’s ancient Roman cardo maximus, famous for its stone balcony and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Labyrinth of the Masone by Franco Maria Ricci
A seven-hectare cultural park near Parma featuring the world’s largest bamboo labyrinth and Franco Maria Ricci’s five-century art collection spanning five hundred works.
Old Palace
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence’s dominant civic palace since the 14th century, houses the mayor, municipal offices, and a museum of Renaissance art in richly decorated rooms.
Pisa Duomo – Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
Pisa’s supreme Romanesque cathedral, opened in 1092, synthesizes Islamic, Byzantine, and European architectural traditions. Its five naves and elliptical dome embody the maritime republic’s medieval splendor.
Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
A Benedictine monastery island in Venice’s lagoon, crowned by Andrea Palladio’s iconic basilica, now home to the Giorgio Cini Foundation and maritime education centre.
Villa Pisani National Museum
A masterpiece of Venetian Rococo on the Brenta waterway, Villa Pisani displays Tiepolo’s fresco celebrating the Pisani family alongside eighteenth-century artworks.
Correr Museum
Venice’s premier civic museum houses masterworks by Bellini, Carpaccio and Canova, tracing the art and culture of the Venetian Republic from the medieval period through the neoclassical age.
Boncompagni Museum for Decorative Arts
A museum of decorative arts, costume and Italian fashion in an early twentieth-century villa on Rome’s Via Boncompagni. Free admission.
Morando Palace – Costume Fashion Museum
A baroque palazzo in central Milan housing the Costume Fashion Museum and important collections of civic history, art, and decorative objects from four centuries of ownership by prominent Milanese families.
Museum of Bath Architecture
The Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel, built in 1765, now houses the Museum of Bath Architecture. This pioneering Gothic Revival structure remains the only survivor among chapels commissioned by Selina Hastings across England.