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Gucci Museo
Strut through the chic cafe and icon store to reach this museum. It tells the tale of the Gucci fashion house, from the first luggage pieces in Guccis signature beige fabric emblazoned with the interlocking GG logo to the 1950s red-and-green stripe and beyond. Dont miss the 1979 Ca
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Duomo della Città di Ascoli Piceno
Topped by a pair of mismatched towers, Ascolis duomo was built in the 16th century over a medieval building and dedicated to St Emidio, patron saint of the city. In the Cappella del Sacramento is the Polittico, a polyptych executed in 1473 by Carlo Crivelli. The crypt of Sant Emidi
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Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
Fashion house Trussardis provocative, nonprofit foundation is neither a museum nor a collection, but acts as an agency for the promotion of contemporary art within unusual historic or architectural venues. Through its work, the Foundation has restored and reopened a number of histo
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Eremo delle Carceri
In around 1205 St Francis chose these caves above Assisi as his hermitage where he could retire to contemplate spiritual matters and be at one with nature. The carceri (isolated places, or prisons) along Monte Subasios forested slopes are as peaceful today as in St Francis time, ev
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Campo dei Mori
A gent in an outsized turban called Sior Rioba has been hanging out at the corner of Calle dei Mori since the Middle Ages. This is one of four such figures ringing the Campo dei Mori (Square of the Moors) – a misnomer, since these statues are believed to represent the Greek Mastell
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Abbazia di Pomposa
About 50km east of Ferrara, the Abbazia di Pomposa is one of Italy’s oldest Benedictine endowments. The monk Guido d’Arezzo reputedly invented the musical scale here, and in the 11th century it was one of Italy’s foremost cultural centres. Its decline began in the 14th century, and
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Casa
Off Piazza del Popolo is the former home of the poet and scholar Antonino Uccello (1922–79), a museum since 1984. Uccello devoted himself to preserving what he feared was disappearing from Sicilian life, so this is the place to go if you want to see what 18th-century farmers would
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PortAlba
A Mediterranean Diagon Alley, PortAlba is an atmospheric porthole into the centro storico, best experienced on weekday afternoons. Crammed with bookshops and stalls, its the place for leather-bound classics, a dog-eared Manzoni or retro postcards and magazines. The gate, which lead
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Museum
The museum has Canova’s 1808 funerary stelae featuring gorgeous women dabbing their eyes with their cloaks, Tullio Lombardo’s wide-eyed 1505 saint whom Titian is said to have referenced for his Madonna at I Frari, and three brooding Tintoretto canvases: Last Supper, with a ghostly
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Cattedrale di San Ciriaco
A stiff but scenic climb up from the old town, Anconas perkily domed cathedral commands sweeping views of the city and port from its hilltop perch. Guarded by two marble lions, the cathedral sits grandly atop the site of an ancient pagan temple and is an architectural potpourri of
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Auditorium Parco della Musica
Designed by archistar Renzo Piano and inaugurated in 2002, Romes flagship cultural centre is an audacious work of architecture consisting of three grey pod-like concert halls set round a 3000-seat amphitheatre.Excavations during its construction revealed remains of an ancient Roman
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Madonna delle Virtù
One of the most important monuments in Matera, the monastic complex of Madonna delle Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci is composed of dozens of caves spread over two floors. The church of the Madonna delle Virtù was built in the 10th or 11th century and restored in the 17th century. A
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Stazione Zoologica
Dating to 1872, the Stazione Zoologica is Europes oldest aquarium. Established by German Darwinist Anton Dohrn, its housed in a stately neoclassical building designed by Adolf von Hildebrand. These days, the aquariums tired-looking tanks are home to 200 species of marine flora and
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Museo del Risorgimento e dell’Età Contemporanea
Since 1831, this neoclassical landmark has been a favourite of Stendhal and other pillars of Padua’s cafe society for heart-poundingly powerful coffee and caffè correto (coffee cocktails). The grand 1st floor is decorated in styles ranging from ancient Egyptian to Imperial, and dur
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Mulino Stucky
The striking neo-Gothic hulk of the best-known factory complex on the island, the Mulino Stucky, was built in the late 19th century and employed 1500 people. It shut in 1954, and languished along the lagoon until 2000, when it was narrowly saved from the wrecking ball by the Hilton
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Parco Virgiliano
Perched high above the shimmering sea on the westernmost tip of posh Posillipo hill, this much-loved park is the place to kick back on a terrace and soak up the views: Capri to the south; Nisida, Procida and Ischia to the southwest; and the Bay of Pozzuoli and Bagnoli to the west.
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Chiesa delle Zitelle
Designed by Palladio in the late 16th century, the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Presentazione, known as the Zitelle, was a church and hospice for orphans and poor young women (zitelle is old local slang for ‘old maids’). The doors are rarely open, but you can get a spa treatment in
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Capitoline Museums at Centrale Montemartini
Housed in a former power station, this fabulous outpost of the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) boldly juxtaposes classical sculpture against diesel engines and giant furnaces. The collection’s highlights are in the Sala Caldaia , where ancient statuary strike poses around the
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Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Laid out in the late 19th century as the centrepiece of an upmarket residential district, but today with a rundown, seedy feel, Rome’s biggest square is a grassy expanse, surrounded by speeding traffic, porticoes and bargain stores. Within the fenced-off central section are the rui
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Gelato Museum Carpigiani
Opened in 2012, this family friendly museum traces the history of frozen desserts from ancient times to the present. Discover 19th-century ice cream carts, try out vintage gelato-making equipment and sample a flavour or two on the History of Gelato tour, or don an apron and create
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