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Chiesa di San Giovanni di Sinis
Just beyond the car park at the foot of the Tharros access road, you’ll see the sandstone Chiesa di San Giovanni di Sinis, one of the two oldest churches in Sardinia (Cagliari’s Basilica di San Saturnino is older). It owes its current form to an 11th-century makeover, although elem
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Battistero Neoniano
Roman ruins aside, this is Ravennas oldest intact building, constructed over the site of a former Roman baths complex in the late 4th century. Built in an octagonal shape, as was the custom with all Christian baptisteries of this period, it was originally attached to a church (sinc
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Aboca Museum
When magnificent art and churches tire, take a break in this medicinal plant museum inside 18th-century Palazzo Bourbon del Monte . Exhibits provide a fascinating insight into the relationship between man and herbs from prehistoric times to present, with rooms dedicated to mortars,
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Casa Santuario di Santa Caterina
An air of serenity pervades this pilgrimage site which is the former home of the eponymous saint, her parents and 24 siblings (locals joke her mother must have been a saint, too). The rooms were converted into small chapels in the 15th century. The lower-level bedroom, frescoed in
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Carcere Mamertino
At the foot of the Campidoglio, the Mamertine Prison was ancient Romes maximum-security jail. St Peter did time here and while imprisoned supposedly created a miraculous stream of water to baptise his jailers. On the bare stone walls you can just make out early Christian frescoes d
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Cala Domestica Beach
A sandy beach wedged into a natural inlet between craggy rocks, Cala Domestica is a heavenly spot. Its shallow blue waters are ideal for a swim whilst surfers can take to the waves that sometimes curl up here. A walk along the rocky path to the right of the beach brings you to a sm
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Cimitero Acattolico per gli Stranieri
Despite the roads that surround it, Rome’s non-Catholic Cemetery is a verdant oasis of peace. An air of Grand Tour romance hangs over the site where up 4000 people lie buried, including poets Keats and Shelley, and Italian political thinker Antonio Gramsci.Among the gravestones and
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Chiesa di Gran Madre di Dio
A grand backdrop across the Po from Piazza Vittorio Veneto, this church was built in the style of a mini-Pantheon from 1818 to 1831 to commemorate the return of Vittorio Emanuele I from exile. Its small and rounded inside; some claim its yet another secret repository for the Holy G
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Chiesa di SantAgata al Carcere
The young virgin Agata resisted the advances of the nefarious Quintian (AD 250) and was horribly mutilated (her breasts were hacked off and her body rolled in hot coals). You can actually visit the dungeons where these atrocities were committed under the Chiesa di SantAgata al Carc
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Franco Senesi
Nestled between the colourful boutiques and lemon-themed ceramics shops, Franco Senesi is a light and airy exhibition space with several rooms showcasing over 20 Italian modern artists and sculptors. You can walk around here without being hassled, admiring (and buying?) artworks th
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Castello di Marmilla
Lording it over the electric green landscape, the ruins of the 12th-century Castello di Marmilla stand atop a conical hill beside the hamlet of Las Plassas, 3km southwest of Barumini. The hilltop castle was part of a defensive line that the medieval rulers of Arborea built on the f
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Chiesa degli Eremitani
When a 1944 bombing raid demolished the extraordinary 1448–57 frescoes by Andrea Mantegna in the Capella Overtari in the Chiesa degli Eremitani, the loss to art history was incalculable. After half a century of painstaking reconstruction, the shattered, humidity-damaged stories of
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Chiesa di Santa Corona
Built by the Dominicans in 1261 to house a relic from Christ’s crown of thorns donated to the bishop of Vicenza by Louis IX of France, this Romanesque church also houses three light-filled masterpieces: Palladio’s 1576 Valmarana Chapel in the crypt; Paolo Veronese’s Adoration of th
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Porta Settimiana
Resembling a crenellated keep, Porta Settimiana marks the start of Via della Lungara, the 16th-century road that connects Trastevere with the Borgo. It was built in 1498 by Pope Alexander VI over a small passageway in the Aurelian Wall and later altered by Pope Pius VI in 1798. Fro
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Palazzo degli Uffizi
The Palazzo degli Uffizi, designed and built by Vasari in the second half of the 16th century at the request of Cosimo I, originally housed the city’s administrators, judiciary and guilds (uffizi means offices).Cosimo’s successor, Francesco I, commissioned the architect Buontalenti
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Palazzo Strozzi
This 15th-century Renaissance mansion was built for wealthy merchant Filippo Strozzi, one of the Medicis major political and commercial rivals. Today it hosts exciting art exhibitions. Theres always a buzz about the place, with young Florentines congregating in the courtyard Café A
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Villa Doria Pamphilj
Rome’s largest park is Romes favourite place to escape the city noise and bustle. Once a vast private estate, it was laid out around 1650 for Prince Camillo Pamphilj, nephew of Pope Innocent X. Its a huge expanse of rolling parkland, shaded by Romes distinctive umbrella pines. At i
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Via Crociferi
A lovely, tranquil spot for a morning stroll, Via Crociferi is one of Catanias most attractive streets, famous for its exuberant baroque churches and imposing 18th-century palazzi . The Arco di San Benedetto , an arch built by the Benedictines in 1704, marks the beginning of Via C
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Tomba di Rotari
A short flight of stairs opposite the Santuario di San Michele leads to a 12th-century baptistry with a deep sunken basin for total immersion. You enter the baptistry through the facade of the Chiesa di San Pietro with its intricate rose window squirming with serpents – all that re
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Museo del Violino
The state-of-the-art Museo del Violino brings together the citys historic collection of violins and presents them alongside the tools of the trade. It also explores the development of the craft and why the instrument is so popular around the world. Theres a special room containing
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