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Places visited in Verona, Italy

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Places visited in Mantua, Italy

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Sirmione, Italy

Scaligero Castle

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Pozzo di San Patrizio

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Added by Mariano

The Grotto Church of Saint Michael

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

Added by mfilipazzi

Vincent City

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Mausoleum of Augustus

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Padua Astronomical Clock

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Castel del Monte

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

Luke Cata

Added by Luke Cata

Dante's Tomb

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Added by lastpearl

Finestrella di Via Piella

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

leiris

Added by leiris

Borgo a Mozzano, Italy

Ponte della Maddalena

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

Allison

Added by Allison

Palazzo Dario

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Melanie Xulu

Added by Melanie Xulu

Medieval Village

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

Annalisa

Added by Annalisa

Parish Church of Santa Maria del Popolo

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

TheMacabreNBold

Added by TheMacabreNBold

Bosco Verticale

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

oriana

Added by oriana

Palmanova, Italy

Palmanova Star Fort

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

StepYoshi

Added by StepYoshi

Alberobello, Italy

Alberobello

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

serflac

Added by serflac

Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists)

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Sassi di Matera

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

GFire

Florence, Italy

Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

michelle

Added by michelle

San Martino della Battaglia, Italy

Ossario di San Martino

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Added by 2wandering

Tomb of Antonio Canova

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

matthiasheinrich

Added by matthiasheinrich

Mussolini's Balcony

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman

The Brothels of Pompeii

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

Dylan