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Palazzo dei Papi
Flanking Piazza San Lorenzo, this handsome Gothic palazzo was built for the popes who lived in Viterbo from 1257 to 1281. To go inside youll have to sign up for a tour at the Museo Colle del Duomo, but you can sometimes pop up the stairs to the loggia (colonnade) and peer into the
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Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia
Kids, would-be inventors and geeks will go goggle-eyed at Milans impressive museum of science and technology, the largest of its kind in Italy. It is a fitting tribute in a city where arch-inventor Leonardo da Vinci did much of his finest work. The 16th-century monastery where it i
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Museo Nazionale dellAutomobile
As the historic birthplace of one of the worlds leading car manufacturers – the ‘T’ in Fiat stands for Torino – Turin is the obvious place for a car museum. And this dashing modern museum, located roughly 5km south of the city centre, doesnt disappoint with its precious collection
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale delle Marche
Housed in the beautiful 16th-century Palazzo Ferretti , where the ceilings are covered with original frescoes and bas-reliefs, this museum presents a fascinating romp through time, from the Palaeolithic period to the Middle Ages. Although not as well curated as it could be (English
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Museo della Storia di Bologna
Walk in a historical neophyte and walk out an A-grade honours student in Bologna’s golden past. This magnificent interactive museum, opened in 2012 and skillfully encased in the regal Palazzo Pepoli, is – in a word – an education. Using a 3D film, a mock-up of an old Roman canal, a
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Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Lording it over Oristano’s skyline, the Duomos onion-domed bell tower is one of the few remaining elements of the original 14th-century cathedral, itself a reworking of an earlier church damaged by fire in the late 12th century. The free-standing campanile (bell tower), topped by i
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Cattedrale di San Cerbone
Presiding over photogenic Piazza Garibaldi (aka Piazza Duomo), Massa Marittimas asymmetrically positioned 13th-century duomo is dedicated to St Cerbonius, the towns patron saint, whos always depicted surrounded by a flock of geese. Inside, dont miss the freestanding Maestà (Madonna
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Museo Etrusco Guarnacci
The vast collection of Etruscan artefacts exhibited here makes this one of Italys most impressive collections. Found locally, they include some 600 funerary urns carved mainly from alabaster and tufa – perhaps the pick is the Urn of the Sposi, a strikingly realistic terracotta rend
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Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Rovereto
The four-floor, 12,000-sq-m steel, glass and marble behemoth, care of the Ticinese architect Mario Botta, is both imposing and human in scale, with mountain light gently filling a central atrium from a soaring cupola. Its home to some huge 20th-century works, including Warhols Four
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Chiesa di SantAndrea
This 12th-century church, with its curious decagonal bell tower, presides over the Piazza della Repubblica, once Orvietos Roman Forum and now lined with cafes. It lies at the heart of what remains of the medieval city.
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Piazza Pretoria
Fringed by imposing churches and buildings, this piazza is visually dominated by the over-the-top Fontana Pretoria , one of Palermos major landmarks. The fountains tiered basins ripple out in concentric circles, crowded with nude nymphs, tritons and leaping river gods. Such flagran
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Tunnel Borbonico
Traverse five centuries along Naples’ engrossing Bourbon Tunnel. Conceived by Ferdinand II in 1853 to link the Palazzo Reale to the barracks and the sea, the never-completed escape route is part of the 17th-century Carmignano Aqueduct system, itself incorporating 16th-century ciste
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Necropoli di Banditaccia
This haunting 12-hectare necropolis is a veritable city of the dead, with streets, squares and terraces of tumuli (circular tombs cut into the earth and capped by turf). Some tombs, including the 6th-century-BC Tomba dei Rilievi , retain traces of painted reliefs, many of which ill
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Ruins of Segesta
Set on the edge of a deep canyon in the midst of wild, desolate mountains, the 5th-century BC ruins of Segesta are a magical site. On windy days the 36 giant columns of its magnificent temple are said to act like an organ, producing mysterious notes. The city, founded by the ancien
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Basilica di San Petronio
Bolognas hulking Gothic basilica is the worlds 15th-largest church, measuring 132m by 66m by 47m. Work began on it in 1390, but it was never finished and still today its main facade remains incomplete. Inside, look out for the huge sundial that stretches 67.7m down the eastern aisl
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Villa Romana
Before the Clooneys and Versaces, wealthy Roman senators and poets had holiday homes on Italys northern lakes. One survivor is Desenzano’s now-ruined Roman villa, which once extended over a hectare of prime lakeside land. Today, wooden walkways snake through the villa above a colou
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Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pieve
This 12th-century church – Arezzos oldest – has an exotic Romanesque arcaded facade adorned with carved columns, each uniquely decorated. Above the central doorway are 13th-century carved reliefs called Cyclo dei Mesi representing each month of the year. The plain interiors highlig
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Santuario di San Michele
Over the centuries this sanctuary has expanded to incorporate a large complex of religious buildings that overlay its original shrine. The double-arched entrance vestibule at street level stands next to a distinctive octagonal bell tower built by Carlo I of Naples in 1282. As you d
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Spiaggia della Pelosa
About 2.5km north of Stintino, the Spiaggia della Pelosa is a dreamy image of beach perfection: a salt-white strip of sand lapped by shallow, turquoise seas and fronted by strange, almost lunar, licks of land. Completing the picture is a Catalan-Aragonese watchtower over the water
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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Pope Julius III’s 16th-century villa provides the charming setting for Italy’s finest collection of Etruscan and pre-Roman treasures. Exhibits, many of which came from burial tombs in the surrounding Lazio region, range from bronze figurines and black bucchero tableware to temple d
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