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Fondazione Prada
This stately Grand Canal palace – designed by Domenico Rossi and completed in 1728 – has been commandeered by Fondazione Prada, but you wont necessarily find handbags here. Instead Ca Corner della Regina is now the setting for slick temporary exhibitions that explore the art and av
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Magazzini del Sale
A retrofit designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano transformed Venice’s historic salt warehouses into Fondazione Vedova art galleries, commemorating pioneering Venetian abstract painter Emilio Vedova. Fondazione Vedova shows are often literally moving and rotating:
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Museo dellAra Pacis
The first modern construction in Romes historic centre since WWII, Richard Meiers controversial and widely detested glass-and-marble pavilion houses the Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Peace), Augustus great monument to peace. One of the most important works of ancient Roman sculpture
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Western Zone
The main feature of the parks western zone is the crumbled ruin of the Tempio di Giove . Covering an area of 112m by 56m with columns 20m high, this would have been the largest Doric temple ever built had its construction not been interrupted by the Carthaginians sacking Akragas. T
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Ponte Vecchio
Dating to 1345, Ponte Vecchio was the only Florentine bridge to survive destruction at the hands of retreating German forces in 1944. Above the jewellers shops on the eastern side, the Corridoio Vasariano (Vasari corridor) is a 16th-century passageway between the Uffizi and Palazzo
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Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista
Flagellants founded this confraternity in 1261, and it served as social club to the Council of Ten, Venice’s dreaded secret service. Political power had obvious perks: Pietro Lombardo’s 1481 triumphal entry arch, a Codussi-designed double staircase, and a 1729 1st-floor meeting hal
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Piazza del Duomo
Flanked by a harmonious trio of buildings – the Duomo, campanile and baptistry – Parmas cathedral square is one of the citys most elegant public spaces.
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Basilica di San Gavino
The uninspiring streets of Porto Torres modern centre provide the unlikely setting for Sardinia’s largest Romanesque church. Built between 1030 and 1080, the basilica is an impressive, and architecturally important structure, notable for its facing apses – it has no facade – and th
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Lago dAverno
In Virgils Aeneid, it is from Lago dAverno that Aeneas descends into the underworld. Its hard to imagine hell in such a bucolic setting, where old vineyards and citrus groves fringe the ancient crater. A popular walking track now circles the perimeter of the lake, located an easy 1
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Galleria Palatina
Raphaels and Rubens vie for centre stage in the enviable collection of 16th- to 18th-century art amassed by the Medici and Lorraine dukes in Palazzo Pittis Galleria Palatina. The gallery, reached via a staircase from the central courtyard, has retained the original display arrangem
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Frascati
A villa perches over the town above ornamental gardens, its flat-fronted façade like an expensive stage set. It’s the 16th-century Villa Aldobrandini , designed by Giacomo della Porta and built by Carlo Maderno; it’s closed to the public, but you can visit the impressive gardens .
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Galleria dArte Moderna
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Chiesa di San Giovanni Decollato
Heady rumours swirl like canal mists around this long-abandoned church named for San Zan Degolà, or St John the Headless, known rather less dramatically in English as St John the Baptist. On the south wall facing the campo is a sculpted medallion of a freshly severed head that pres
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Akrai
A 20-minute uphill walk from Piazza del Popolo, the archaeological park of Akrai is one of the areas best-kept secrets. The city of Akrai, Syracuses first inland colony, was established to defend the overland trading route to other Greek settlements. Nowadays, its ruins are an evoc
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La Martorana
On the southern side of Piazza Bellini, this luminously beautiful 12th-century church was endowed by King Rogers Syrian emir, George of Antioch, and was originally planned as a mosque. Delicate Fatimid pillars support a domed cupola depicting Christ enthroned amid his archangels. T
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Gallerie dItalia
Housed in three fabulously decorated palaces, the enormous art collection of Fondazione Cariplo and Intesa Sanpaolo bank pays homage to 18th- and 19th-century Lombard painting. From a magnificent sequence of bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova to luminous Romantic masterpieces by Frances
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Basilica di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro
The northern end of one of the citys biggest squares, Piazza Santa Lucia , is dominated by the Basilica di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro. The 17th-century church is built on the spot where the citys patron saint, Lucia, an aristocratic girl who devoted herself to saintliness after being
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Laboratorio Oste
The late Annibale Oste was one of Naples most celebrated sculptors and designers and his workshop is now a small gallery-archive showcasing some of his works, including whimsical light sculptures, vases, and fantastical furniture pieces spanning 2001 to 2010. The venue, charming in
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Nora
About 4km from Pula, Noras ruins are all that remain of what was once one of Sardinias most powerful cities. Founded by Phoenicians in the 8th century BC, it later became an important Punic centre, and, in the 3rd century AD, the islands Roman capital. It was eventually abandoned i
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Cinecittà Film Studios
Cinecitta is Italys foremost film studio, founded in 1937 by Mussolini, and used for many iconic Italian and international films. Its now possible to take a tour of the studios, where you get to visit several impressive sets, including 1500s Florence and ancient Rome, and there are
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