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Camposanto
Soil shipped from Calvary during the Crusades is said to lie within the white walls of this hauntingly beautiful, final resting place for many prominent Pisans, arranged around a garden in a cloistered quadrangle. During WWII, Allied artillery destroyed many of the cloisters fresco
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Basilica di Santa Caterina dAlessandria
Most people come to Galatina to see the incredible 14th-century Basilica di Santa Caterina d’Alessandria. Its interior is a kaleidoscope of frescoes and is absolutely beautiful, with a pure-white altarpiece set against the frenzy of frescoes. It was built by the Franciscans, whose
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Riserva Naturale Provinciale Diaccia Botrona
The marshes surrounding the coastal town of Castiglione della Pescaia are an important shelter for migrating birds, and this 1272-hectare nature reserve off the SS322 is a wonderful chance to explore this flat yet fascinating landscape. Boat tours enable you to spot waterfowl, hero
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Risiera di San Sabba
This former rice-husking plant became a concentration camp in 1943 and has been a national monument and museum since the 1960s.The site commemorates the 5000 people who perished here and the many thousands more who passed through on the way to Nazi forced labour and death camps. Th
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Basilica Santuario della Madonna di San Luca
About 3.5km southwest of the city centre, the hilltop Basilica Santuario della Madonna di San Luca occupies a powerful and appropriately celestial position overlooking the teeming red-hued city below. The church houses a representation of the Virgin Mary, supposedly painted by St L
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Museo Nazionale Pepoli
In a former Carmelite monastery, this museum houses the collection of Conte Pepoli, who devoted his life to salvaging Trapanis local arts and crafts, most notably the garish coral carvings – once all the rage in Europe before Trapanis offshore coral banks were decimated. The museum
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Brunate
Como is flanked to the east and west by steep and thickly wooded hills (scarred in part by the spread of residential housing). Northeast along the waterfront from central Como, the Funicolare Como–Brunate takes just seven minutes to reach Brunate, a quiet residential village which
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Arco
No doubt avoiding the summer tourists, Archduke Albrecht preferred to build his winter palace 5km north of Riva in pretty Arco in 1872. Around it he created a magnificent arboretum, now the Parco Arciducale , planted with huge holm-oaks, sequoias and dagger-sharp cypresses. His nei
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St Peters Square
Overlooked by St Peters Basilica, the Vatican’s central square was laid out between 1656 and 1667 to a design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Seen from above, it resembles a giant keyhole with two semicircular colonnades, each consisting of four rows of Doric columns, encircling a giant e
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Chiesa di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola
Flanking a delightful rococo piazza, this important Jesuit church boasts a Carlo Maderno facade and two celebrated trompe l’oeil frescoes by Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709). One cleverly depicts a fake dome, whilst the other, on the nave ceiling, shows St Ignatius Loyola being welcomed in
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Museo Galileo
On the river next to the Uffizi in 12th-century Palazzo Castellani – look for the sundial telling the time on the pavement outside – is this state-of-the-art science museum, named after the great Pisa-born scientist who was invited by the Medici court to Florence in 1610 (dont miss
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Parco Archeologico Città del Tufa
At Tuscanys most significant Etruscan tombs, 1.5km east of town, signs in Italian and English guide you around four elaborate burial sites. The headline exhibit is the Tomba Ildebranda , named after Gregory VII, which still preserves traces of its carved columns and stairs. The Tom
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Porto Flavia
A marvel of early 20th-century engineering, Porto Flavia is a port dug into cliffs 50m above the sea. Consisting of two 600m tunnels and a mobile arm, it was used to load zinc and lead ore directly onto cargo ships waiting in the waters below.To find it, head towards Masuas beach f
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Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
Built on the ruins of the Roman temple to Aesculapius, the Graeco-Roman god of medicine, the island’s 10th-century church is an interesting hybrid of architectural styles: the facade is baroque, as is the richly frescoed ceiling; the belltower is 12th-century Romanesque, and the 28
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Parco delle Cascine
Florences largest park is dotted with playgrounds and is a great place to let the little uns loose. Families take over at weekends and the park is a colourful scene with rollerbladers, kite-flyers, joggers and kids on bikes. In summer you can also use Le Pavoniere swimming pool. Th
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Chiesa di San Salvador
A dream made real, San Salvador was conceived in the 7th century when Jesus appeared to a sleeping Bishop Magnus and pointed out the exact spot on a lagoon map where he should build a church. There was, however, a minor technical glitch: the city of Venice didn’t exist yet, and the
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Cattedrale di San Pietro di Castello
This sleepy church on the far-flung island of San Pietro served as Venices cathedral from 1451 to 1807. An almost-but-not-quite Palladio design with a white bell tower of Istrian stone by Codussi, its expansive 54m dome rivals Michelangelos at the Vatican in width (though not heigh
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Musei di Villa Torlonia
Housed in three villas – Casino Nobile, Casina delle Civette and Casino dei Principi – this museum boasts an eclectic collection of sculpture, paintings, furnishings, and decorative stained glass.The main ticket office is just inside the Via Nomentana entrance to Villa Torlonia. Wi
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Museo di Casa Vasari
Built and sumptuously decorated by Arezzo-born painter, architect and art historian Giorgio Vasari (1511–74), this museum is where Vasari lived and worked, and where the original manuscript of his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550) – still in prin
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Monastero di San Lazzaro degli Armeni
Tours start in the glittering church and are conducted by multilingual monks, who amply demonstrate the order’s reputation for scholarship. After passing through the 18th-century refectory , you’ll head upstairs to the library . In 1789 the monks set up a polyglot printing press he
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