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Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Siena | No Comments »
Few buildings reveal so much of a city's history and aspirations as Siena's Duomo . Complete to virtually its present size around 1215, it was ... Read more..Capitoline Hill
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
The real pity about the Vittorio Emanuele Monument is that it obscures views of the Capitoline Hill behind - once, in the days of Imperial ... Read more..San Giovanni In Laterano
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
... Read more..The Christian Era
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Rome | No Comments »
It was the papacy, under Pope Gregory I ("the Great"; 590-604) in 590, that rescued Rome from its demise. In an eerie echo of the ... Read more..Piazza Del Santo And The Basilica
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Padua - Padova | No Comments »
Apart from the encampment of stalls selling decorated candles and outsize souvenir rosaries, the main sight of the Piazza del Santo, a 10min walk south, is Donatello's Monument to Gattamelata ... Read more..Eremitani
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Padua - Padova | No Comments »
The church of the Eremitani , built at the turn of the fourteenth century, was almost completely wrecked by an Allied bombing raid in 1944 ... Read more..Vómero
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Naples | No Comments »
Like Chiaia below and Mergellina to the west, VÓMERO - the district topping the hill immediately above the old city - is one of Naples' ... Read more..The Town
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Matera | No Comments »
Divided into two sections - the Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano - the sassi district can be entered from a ... Read more..About Gubbio
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Gubbio | No Comments »
... Read more..San Miniato
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Florence - Firenze | No Comments »
The strategic village of SAN MINIATO , midway between Pisa and Florence (42km from both), was given its landmark fortress by the Holy Roman Emperor ... Read more..