Val Camonica is known all over the world for the extraordinary wealth and variety of rock engravings, Italy’s first site to be included in the Unesco World Heritage List in 1979. It is a truly unique place of charm and …
[expand title=”The origin and rise of a unique city”] Venice was founded in the V century AD, and that’s when the Republic of Venice began to take shape. As the Lombard forayed into Italy, progressive migratory flows led refugees and …
In the xv century, Vicenza was annexed to Venice, and in 1540 Venice’s upper classes opened new land far from the coast. Andrea di Pietro della Gondola, also known as Palladio, one of the greatest Western architects, was commissioned to …
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 …
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. …
