cultural sites

This Site recognises the value and influence of the House of Medici, the Italian family whose numberless patronages left a significant stamp in the arts and culture of modern Europe. The architectural pattern of the “villa with garden” was an …
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The Parco Nazionale del Cilento and Vallo di Diano is a 360-degree showcase of the ages and vestiges of the Mediterranean civilisations, located within an extremely valuable cultural and natural landscape. A physical and cultural crossroads of peoples and traditions, …
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Crespi d’Adda is one of the world’s most important industrial heritage sites. It is an outstanding example of a workers’ village, based on the company towns built in the XIX and XX centuries when the modern Western countries were transformed …
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The Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia are two large monumental burial areas dating back to the period between the 9th and the 1st century BC and bear exceptional witness to the ancient Etruscan civilization, its history and distinctive characteristics. The …
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Nuraghi are prehistoric cyclopean buildings typical of Sardinia. They are a testimony of a particular architectonic manifestation of the Mediterranean civilization that is datable from the Bronze Age and had defensive and settling purposes. The Nuragic complex of Su Nuraxi …
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Ravenna was an important town of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and then the capital of the Byzantine exarchate until the 8th century AD. Its universal value is given by the collection of mosaics and the eight early …
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The world’s oldest botanic garden is also the model for may other gardens in Europe. It was founded as the medicinal plant garden for the university of Padova in 1545 and was used to study plants and their therapeutic properties. …
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The extraordinary charm of the historical centre of Pienza lies in its being the materialization of an ideal that expresses the spirit of an epoch. Pienza is the “daughter” of one of the most interesting figures of the Italian Renaissance; …
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