Toscana
Pienza
A Renaissance town in Tuscany's Val d'Orcia, Pienza exemplifies 15th-century urban planning ideals and stands as a UNESCO…
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Pienza — la Città Ideale di Papa Pio II (1459-1462): Bernardo Rossellino e il Primo Esempio di Applicazione dei Principi Umanistici all’Urbanistica (UNESCO 1996)
Pienza is the most complete surviving realization of the Renaissance "ideal city" as a building project: in 1459,…
Toscana
Pienza e la Val d’Orcia — la Città Utopica di Pio II (1459-1462) nel Paesaggio UNESCO della Toscana Senese
A pope redesigned a village — the hamlet of Corsignano, his birthplace — into a model Renaissance city…
Toscana
Pienza: Città Ideale del Rinascimento
Pienza (UNESCO 1996) is the only city in the world built entirely to a single Renaissance vision in…
Lazio
Pigneto District
Pigneto is a working-class neighbourhood in the eastern quarter of Rome, developed in the early twentieth century as…
Peru
Pikillacta
A pre-Inca city of hundreds of identical sealed rooms — the most enigmatic urban plan in the pre-Columbian…
Canada
Pimachiowin Aki — The Land That Gives Life
At 29,040 km², Pimachiowin Aki is the largest undisturbed boreal landscape on Earth still managed according to Indigenous…
South Africa
Pinnacle Point
A cluster of sea caves on the Indian Ocean shoreline near Mossel Bay containing the earliest known evidence…
Toscana
Pisa: Piazza dei Miracoli
La Piazza dei Miracoli di Pisa (UNESCO 1987) è il più importante complesso architettonico romanico d’Italia — la…
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