Instituciones religiosas in Italy: profiles, services and practical information.
Santa Croce turns a façade into a long exercise in looking. Above Via Umberto I, its rose window, figures and plant forms carved into pale limestone make you look up mor…
View profile →Lecce Cathedral reveals itself through its almost enclosed square. On entering Piazza del Duomo, the cathedral and bell tower cease to be isolated monuments and become a…
View profile →Modern Pompei has a living centre as well as Roman ruins. On Piazza Bartolo Longo, the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary tells another story: the nineteenth-century devot…
View profile →The Basilica of Saint Francis is both a building to study and a place where people still pray. The more intimate Lower Church leads to the crypt holding the saint’s tomb…
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