Historic sites in Italy: profiles, services and practical information.
Volterra’s Roman Theatre lies below the medieval street plan, as though the town had left a window open onto another period. You can make out the semicircle of seating,…
View profile →Taormina’s Ancient Theatre brings archaeology and landscape into a single frame. The auditorium rests on the hill; beyond the stage lie the Ionian Sea and, when the weat…
View profile →Beneath the traffic of Piazza Vittorio Veneto lies one of Matera’s answers to scarce water. Palombaro Lungo is a cistern dug and enlarged in stages from the sixteenth ce…
View profile →Entering Pompeii Archaeological Park means entering a city, not a room of antiquities. Its streets lead from the forum to houses, workshops, baths and the amphitheatre;…
View profile →Ponte delle Torri makes Spoleto’s geography visible. It leaves the area beside Rocca Albornoziana, spans a deep gorge and reaches the Monteluco side. Umbriatourism puts…
View profile →Rocca Maggiore changes your point of view after Assisi’s churches. From Asio hill, streets and roofs appear fitted between the mountain and the plain. The municipal tour…
View profile →Steps from the upper funicular station, Pozzo di San Patrizio turns a need for water into an engineering work visitors can walk through. Pope Clement VII, sheltering in…
View profile →The Venetian Walls are more than a backdrop to Bergamo’s Upper Town. The Republic of Venice began building them in 1561 to defend the city; the project changed its shape…
View profile →Piazza Mercato delle Scarpe is one of those squares many visitors cross before learning its name. The upper city funicular arrives here at the edge of Bergamo’s old stre…
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