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Museo Antiquarium Arborense
Oristano’s principal museum boasts one of the island’s major archaeological collections, with prehistoric artefacts from the Sinis Peninsula and finds from Carthaginian and Roman Tharros. Theres also a small collection of retabli (painted altarpieces), including the 16th-century Re
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Complesso Monumentale dei Girolamini
The Chiesa dei Girolamini features two facades, the more imposing of which is the 18th-century one facing Piazza dei Girolamini on Via dei Tribunali. Inside, disrepair is redeemed by numerous baroque delights, among them frescoes by Francesco Solimena and a pair of monumental marbl
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Mt Vesuvius
Since exploding into history in AD 79, Vesuvius has blown its top more than 30 times. What redeems this slumbering menace is the spectacular panorama from its crater, which takes in Naples, its world-famous bay, and part of the Apennine mountains. Vesuvius is the focal point of the
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Piazza del Plebiscito
For Continental grandeur, its hard to beat Piazza del Plebiscito. Whichever way you look, the view is show-stopping. To the northwest, vine-covered slopes lead up to Castel SantElmo and the Certosa di San Martino; to the east, the pink-hued Palazzo Reale shows off its oldest facade
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Palazzo della Mostra del Cinema
Eugenio Miozzi’s rigid, Rationalist ‘Palace of Cinema’ seems as ill-suited to the playboy Lido as a woolly bathing suit. But its severe Fascist lines were well in keeping with the ambitious modernism of the era, when business tycoon and Fascist minister Count Giuseppe di Volpi clev
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Tempietto di Bramante & Chiesa di San Pietro in Montorio
Considered the first great building of the High Renaissance, Bramante’s sublime Tempietto (Little Temple; 1508) is a perfect surprise, squeezed into the courtyard of the Chiesa di San Pietro in Montorio, on the spot where St Peter is said to have been crucified. Its small, but perf
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Chiesa di San Michele
On Via Carlo Alberto, the carrer major of the medieval town, the Chiesa di San Michele is best known for its maiolica dome, typical of churches in Valencia, another former Catalan territory. The present tiles were laid in the 1960s, but this doesn’t detract from its beauty. Just be
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Scuola Grande dei Carmini
Eighteenth-century backpackers must have thought they’d died and gone to heaven at Scuola Grande dei Carmini, with its lavish interiors by Giambattista Tiepolo and Baldassare Longhena. The gold-leafed, Longhena-designed stucco stairway to heaven , glimpsed upstairs in Tiepolo’s nin
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Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta
Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta is a wild and beautiful park encompassing more than 80 lakes and the vast Adamello glacier which was once home to the Alps only brown bears. Although this became a protected area in 1967, by then bear numbers had dwindled to just three. Beginning in
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Chiesa di Santa Trìnita
Built in Gothic style and later given a Mannerist facade, this 14th-century church shelters some of the citys finest frescoes: Lorenzo Monacos Annunciation (1422) in Cappella Bartholini Salimbeni and eye-catching frescoes by Ghirlandaio depicting the life of St Francis of Assisi in
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Greek Fortifications
Right at the other end of Corso Vittorio Emanuele (turn left on Via Manzoni and follow the road to the sea for about 4km), you will find the remains of the ancient Greek fortifications at Capo Soprano. Built by the tyrant of Syracuse, Timoleon, in 333 BC, they are in a remarkable s
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Castel SantElmo
Star-shaped Castel SantElmo was originally a church dedicated to St Erasmus. Some 400 years later, in 1349, Robert of Anjou turned it into a castle before Spanish viceroy Don Pedro de Toledo had it further fortified in 1538. Used as a military prison until the 1970s, its now famed
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Certosa di San Lorenzo
One of the largest monasteries in southern Europe, the Certosa di San Lorenzo dates from 1306 and covers 250,000 sq metres. Numerologists can swoon at the following: 320 rooms and halls, 2500m of corridors, galleries and hallways, 300 columns, 500 doors, 550 windows, 13 courtyards,
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Ragusa Ibla
Ragusa Ibla is a joy to wander, its labyrinthine lanes weaving through rock-grey palazzi to open onto beautiful, sun-drenched piazzas. Its easy to get lost but you can never go too far wrong, and sooner or later youll end up at Piazza Duomo , Ragusas sublime central square. East o
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Porta Romana
Pilgrims to Rome headed down Via Romana leaving Florence behind them. The end of the road is marked by the Porta Romana, an imposing gate that was part of the outer circle of city walls knocked down in the 19th century. A strip of this wall still stretches to the north from the gat
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Basilica di SS Quattro Coronati
This brooding fortified church harbours some lovely 13th-century frescoes and a delightful hidden cloister. The frescoes, in the Oratorio di San Silvestro , depict the story of the Donation of Constantine, a notorious forged document with which the emperor Constantine ceded control
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Chiesa di Santa Prassede
Famous for its brilliant mosaics, this 9th-century church is dedicated to St Praxedes, an early Christian heroine who hid Christians fleeing persecution and buried those she couldn’t save in a well. The position of the well is now marked by a marble disc on the floor of the nave. T
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Galleria Regionale della Sicilia
Housed in the stately 15th-century Palazzo Abatellis, this fine museum features works by Sicilian artists from the Middle Ages to the 18th century. Its greatest treasure is Triunfo della Morte (Triumph of Death), a magnificent fresco in which Death is represented as a demonic skele
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Tenuta Vannulo
Italys sole organic producer of bufala (water-buffalo) milk, Tenuta Vannulo is a 10-minute drive from Paestum. It makes its mozzarella exclusively from buffalo milk, unlike most producers who combine it with cows milk. The farm is open for tours (in English and Italian) of the prod
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Villa dEste
In Tivolis hilltop centre, the steeply terraced grounds of Villa dEste are a superlative example of a Renaissance garden, complete with monumental fountains, elegant tree-lined avenues and landscaped grottoes. The villa, originally a Benedictine convent, was converted into a luxury
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