Building · Veneto
Scrovegni Chapel
Between 1303 and 1305 the Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone covered every interior surface of the Scrovegni Chapel…
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Places
40 places
Italian heritage places, palaces, churches, monuments and historic sites — curated since 2002 and republished in editorial form for international readers.
Square · Lazio
St. Peter’s Square
St. Peter's Square is the elliptical forecourt of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, framed by the four-row…
Building · Campania
Teatro di San Carlo
The Teatro di San Carlo is the oldest continuously active opera house in the world, inaugurated in Naples…
Monument · Lazio
Tomb of Cecilia Metella
Tomb of Cecilia Metella, Via Appia Antica, Rome. Photo via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA). Ancient Rome · 1st century…
Monument · Lazio
Trajan’s Column
Trajan's Column is a Roman triumphal column inaugurated on 12 May 113 CE in the heart of the…
Toscana
Uffizi Galleries
The Uffizi is a U-shaped Renaissance palace on the Arno in Florence, commissioned in 1560 by Cosimo I…
Square · Basilicata
Urban Park of the Palmenti
On the northern edge of Pietragalla, a hill town in inland Basilicata, roughly two hundred palmenti — small…
Palace · Lazio
Villa Farnese, Caprarola
Villa Farnese rises above the village of Caprarola in northern Lazio as one of the defining Mannerist commissions…
Villa · Campania
Villa Floridiana
Villa Floridiana stands on the Vomero hill above Naples, set within a landscape park of roughly eight hectares…
Monument · Lazio
Vittoriano (Altar of the Fatherland)
The Vittoriano, formally the National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, was designed by the Marche-born architect Giuseppe Sacconi…