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Museo Ferruccio Lamborghini
Moved to its new home north of Bologna in 2013, this is a must-see museum for Lamborghini-lovers. Tour the 9000-sq-metre space on your own, checking out the Lamborghini familys personal collection of helicopters, tractors and legendary cars like the Miura SV and Countach, or reserv
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Musei Civici
Looming over the old town is the forbidding Castello Visconteo , built in 1360 for Galeazzo II Visconti. It now houses the Museo Civico . Intriguing collections include archaeological, ethnographic and art collections, plus displays on medieval Pavia, the Renaissance, the Risorgime
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Piazza Navonas grand centrepiece, Bernini’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is an ornate, showy work featuring muscular personifications of the Nile, Ganges, Danube and River Plate. Legend has it that the figure of the Nile is shielding his eyes from the Chiesa di SantAgnese in Agone, d
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Chiesa di San Giorgio
The high point of a trip to Modica – quite literally as its up in Modica Alta – is the Chiesa di San Giorgio, one of Sicilys most extraordinary baroque churches. Considered Rosario Gagliardis great masterpiece, it stands in isolated splendour at the top of a majestic 250-step stair
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Basilica della Santa Casa
While the original basilica started in 1468 was Gothic, Renaissance additions (including some savvy engineering by Bramante) have made today’s imposing Basilica della Santa Casa an architectural masterpiece. Inside, gold-leafed halos, impressive frescoes and religious triptychs cre
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Thermae
To the north of the villas main entrance , which leads through the remnants of a triumphal arch into an elegant atrium (forecourt), is the villas baths complex. Accessible via the palaestra , which has a splendid mosaic depicting a chariot race at the Circus Maximus in Rome (the ro
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Castello Incantato
About 3km east of town, the Castello Incantato is actually a large park festooned with thousands of sculpted heads. The man behind this bizarre collection was Filippo Bentivegna (1888–1967), a local artist who used sculpture to exorcise the memories of an unhappy sojourn in the USA
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Palazzo Chigi
The magnificent curving Gothic façade of the Palazzo Chigo-Saracini is in part a travesty, the result of restoration in the 18th and 19th centuries to re-create the medieval feel. From the tower, which is the genuine article apart from its brick crenellations, they say a young boy
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Museo Stefano Bardini
To learn about 19th-century antiquarian and art collector and restorer Stefano Bardini, visit this lesser-known palazzo museum. Through his work as one of Italys most authoritative antiquarians, Bardini amassed a small fortune and his own expansive collection of Renaissance art, di
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Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore
Built to celebrate the city’s deliverance from the Black Death, Palladios Il Redentore was completed under Antonio da Ponte (of Rialto bridge fame) in 1592. Inside there are works by Tintoretto, Veronese and Vivarini, but the most striking is Paolo Piazza’s 1619 Gratitude of Venice
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Cava di Fantiscritti
Head up the mountain to this dusty, truck-busy cava de marmo (marble quarry), through a dramatic series of tunnels used by trains to transport marble until the 1960s when trucks took over. At the Fantiscritti Quarry entrance, pick a 40-minute guided tour by minibus/on foot of the R
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Casa delle Vestali
The Casa delle Vestali, situated in the heart of the Roman Forum and currently off-limits to visitors, was home to the virgins who tended the sacred flame in the adjoining Tempio di Vesta. The six priestesses were selected from patrician families when aged between six and 10 to se
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Basilica di Santa Cristina
Bolsena’s few specific sights are in the medieval centre. In the 11th-century Basilica di Santa Cristina you’ll find four stones stained with miraculous blood. The church is named for the martyr, who was daughter of the local prefect and yet was tortured and finally killed for her
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Biblioteca Nazionale
Naples downtown Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) is home to the Biblioteca Nazionale, its priceless treasures including at least 2000 papyri discovered at Herculaneum and fragments of a 5th-century Coptic Bible. Designed by some of Naples most celebrated 19th-century craftspeople, the
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Santuario di Gibilmanna
While youre in town, you will probably meet a few visitors who have come on a pilgrimage to pray at the elaborately decorated baroque Santuario di Gibilmanna, a shrine to the Virgin Mary. During the shrines coronation on 17 August 1760 (a day which also marked the official consecra
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Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi
Maceratas museums cluster in the Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi. The collections are spread over three floors. On the ground floor is the Museo delle Carozza , housing an extensive collection of 18th- to 20th-century coaches. Stepping up to the 1st floor brings you to the city
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Officina DArti Grafiche di Carmine Cervone
Lovers of print and typography shouldn’t miss Carmine’s one-of-a-kind printing workshop, crammed with rare vintage machinery, including a late-19th-century linotype machine. That Carmine speaks little English never detracts from the young gun’s passion for his craft and his love of
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Fontana Maggiore
The centrepiece of Piazza IV Novembre, the delicate pink-and-white marble Fontana Maggiore was designed by Fra Bevignate and built by father-son team Nicola and Giovanni Pisano between 1275 and 1278. Bas-relief statues grace the polygonal basin, representing scenes from the Old Tes
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Loggia dei Lanzi
What makes this gorgeous square so agreeable is, in part, its wealth of fountains and statues, climaxing with this 14th-century loggia where works such as Giambolognas Rape of the Sabine Women , Benvenuto Cellinis bronze Perseus (1554) (c 1583) and Agnolo Gaddis Seven Virtues (1384
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Museo Piaggio
The Vespa, Italys iconic scooter, revolutionised travel when Piaggio launched it from its factory in Pontedera, 25km southeast of Pisa, in 1946. The complete story – from the Genovese companys arrival in Tuscany in 1921 to its manufacturing of four-engine aircraft and hydroplanes,
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