Best places: Churches in Italy

Byzantine-style domes top this vast Catholic edifice, home to noted artworks & St Antony's relics.

Landmark cathedral, the Pope's official seat, with ornate 1700s facade & statues of the Apostles.

Church where, according to tradition, the Virgin Mary once lived.

Glittering mosaics line the gold facade of this 1300s cathedral, known for its fresco-filled chapel.

Magnificent papal basilica dating from the 4th century, with tomb of St Paul & elegant cloisters.

Hilltop Catholic sanctuary dedicated to archangel Michael with a complex of buildings around a cave.

Open public area with historic palaces & cultural events leading to the Seven Churches complex.

France's baroque national church in Rome, known for the Caravaggio paintings in its chapel.

Historic 16th-century church & former monastery with vivid biblical-themed artwork & frescoes.

Romanesque church with an ornate marble porch & a lavishly gilded interior hung with tapestries.

Hilltop, 11th-century church with a gleaming Romanesque facade, medieval interiors & city views.

Prominent baroque-style church completed in the 1630s with frescoes & many bas-relief sculptures.

👍👍 This Church Museum of Santa Luciella ai Librai is one of the historic churches of Naples. It is located in the street of the same name, near the church of Saints Philip and James and right behind the church of San Gregorio Armeno. It has been closed to worship since the 1980s but was reopened on 5...

Serene complex with a church & shrine honoring a 1900s saint, home to his tomb & confessional cell.

Built by the Celestines in 1289, this Romanesque church is Pope Celestine V's final resting place.

Chapel & house-museum of a 1700s saint worshipped for her supposed power to boost fertility.

15th-century Dominican church including famous frescoes by Gothic & early Renaissance masters.

Michelangelo's statue of Moses dominates this coffered 400s church, also home to St. Peter's chains.

Renaissance square overlooked by a medieval palazzo, San Francesco church & colonnaded buildings.

Religious complex dating from the 1300s with a vast church, majolica-tiled cloisters & a museum.