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Basilica di San Domenico
Built in 1238, this basilica shelters the remains of San Domenico, founder of the Dominican order. Along the right aisle, the Cappella di San Domenico houses the saints elaborate sarcophagus, designed by Nicola Pisano and later added to by a host of artists. Famous ghosts present h
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Abbazia di SantAntimo
The beautiful, Romanesque Abbazia di Sant’Antimo lies in an isolated valley just below the village of Castelnuovo dell’Abate, 11km from Montalcino. It’s Romanesque exterior features stone carvings set in the bell tower and apsidal chapels. Visit in the morning when the sun – stream
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Museo dArte
Housed in a restored 19th-century townhouse, the is the only serious contemporary art gallery in Sardinia. Its permanent collection boasts more than 400 works by the island’s top 20th-century painters, including Antonio Ballero, Giovanni Ciusa-Romagna, Mario Delitalia and abstract
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Museo della Follia
As well as a poignant photographic collection displaying portraits of patients, San Servolo’s Museum of Madness contains the full paraphernalia of psychiatric treatment of the day, including chains, handcuffs, cages for ice showers, early electro-therapy machines and a rare plethys
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Chiostro del Paradiso
To the left of Amalfi’s cathedral porch, these magnificent Moorish-style cloisters were built in 1266 to house the tombs of Amalfi’s prominent citizens; 120 marble columns support a series of tall, slender Arabic arches around a central garden. From the cloisters, go through to the
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Villa Torlonia Bunker
Beneath the greenery of Villa Torlonia lie reminders of a dark chapter in Romes history. Between 1940 and 1943, Mussolini had two air raid shelters and an underground bunker built beneath what was, at the time, his family estate. Guided tours take you down into these bare undergrou
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Gagosian Gallery
Since it opened in 2007, the Rome branch of Larry Gagosian’s contemporary art empire has hosted the big names of modern art: Cy Twombly, Damien Hirst and Lawrence Weiner, to name a few. The gallery is housed in an artfully converted 1920s bank, and was designed by Roman architect F
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Moschea di Roma
To the northwest of Villa Ada, Paolo Portoghesi’s vast postmodernist mosque sits amid the greenery of the posh Parioli district. One of Europe’s largest mosques (it extends for some 30,000 sq m), it was paid for by the Saudi royal family and inaugurated in 1995, 11 years after the
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Giardini Botanici Hanbury
Established in 1867 by English businessman Sir Thomas Hanbury, the 18-hectare Villa Hanbury estate is planted with 5800 botanical species from five continents, including cacti, palm groves and citrus orchards. Today its a protected area, under the care of the University of Genoa.
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Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche lodges in the striking Renaissance Palazzo Ducale. A monumental staircase, one of Italys first, leads to the piano nobile (literally noble floor) and the Ducal Apartments. Piero della Francesca was one of the artists employed by the duke, and his
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Chiesa di Santa Maria di Betlem
With its distinctive dome and proud Romanesque facade, the Chiesa di Santa Maria di Betlem reveals a curious blend of architectural styles. The exterior sports Gothic and even vaguely Oriental elements. Inside, the Catalan Gothic vaulting has been preserved, but much baroque sillin
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Coddu Ecchju
Taking the Arzachena–Luogosanto road south, you can follow signs to one of the most important tombe dei giganti in Sardinia. The most visible part of it is the oval-shaped central stele (standing stone). Both slabs of granite, one balanced on top of the other, show an engraved fram
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Banco Rosso
Within the Venetian economy, one of the traditional functions of the Jewish community was to provide cut-rate pawnbroking services – theoretically to the poor, although the well-to-do frequently made use of the service. Of the three, original banks in the Ghetto, the Red Bench is t
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Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO)
Along with MAXXI, this is Rome’s most important contemporary art gallery. Occupying a converted Peroni brewery, it hosts temporary exhibitions and displays works from its permanent collection of post-1960s Italian art.Vying with the exhibits for your attention is the museums sleek
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Palazzo Venezia
Built between 1455 and 1464, this was the first of Romes great Renaissance palaces. For centuries it served as the embassy of the Venetian Republic, but its most readily associated with Mussolini, who installed his office here in 1929, and famously made speeches from the balcony. N
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Galleria Continua
It may seem strange to highlight contemporary art in this medieval time capsule of a town, but theres good reason. Galleria Continua is one of the best commercial art galleries in Europe, showing the work of big-name artists such as Ai Weiwei, Daniel Buren, Carlos Garaicoa, Moataz
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Chiesa di Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza
Hidden in the porticoed courtyard of Palazzo della Sapienza , this tiny church is a masterpiece of baroque architecture. Built by Francesco Borromini between 1642 and 1660, and based on an incredibly complex geometric plan, it combines alternating convex and concave walls with a ci
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Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni
Architect, designer and teacher Achille Castiglioni was one of Italy’s most influential 20th-century thinkers. This is the studio where he worked daily until his death in 2002, and the hour-long tours vividly illuminate his intelligent but playful creative process. Details abound a
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Villa Melzi dEril
The grounds of neoclassical Villa Melzi d’Eril are a highlight among Lago di Comos (many) delightful places. The villa was built in 1808 for one of Napoleon’s associates and is coloured by flowering azaleas and rhododendrons in spring. The statue-studded gardens was the first Engli
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Torre degli Asinelli
Bolognas two leaning towers are the citys main symbol. The taller of the two, the 97.6m-high Torre degli Asinelli is open to the public, though it’s not advisable for the weak-kneed (there are 498 steps) or for superstitious students (local lore says if you climb it you’ll never gr
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