Best places: Cultural landmarks in Italy

Popular canal with water taxis, lined with classical buildings & crossed by the Rialto bridge.

Steep, narrow road with mountain tunnels offering picturesque views of lake & adjacent peaks.

👍👍 Ein unbeschreiblich schöner Ort zum Schwimmen und schnorcheln - eine traumhafte Unterwasserwelt

Guided tours offered in a subterranean Christian cemetery built in the 2nd & 4th centuries.

Show caves visited by guided tours, containing prehistoric human footprints & cave paintings.

Grotto in the Apuane Alps Nature Reserve with stalagmites & small lakes encrusted with crystal.

👍👍 Abbiamo scoperto quasi per caso questa magnifica chiesa in una vietta del centro di Lodi. Si tratta di un vero e proprio gioiello del Rinascimento lombardo e tardo barocco. Dall'esterno ci hanno attirato degli affreschi protetti da una cancellata barocca in ferro battuto. Entrando siamo stati colpit...

🫤 This review isn't meant to review the castle itself, which is a wonderful historical monument, but it is entirely dedicated to the DREADFUL organisation which organises tours. They are some of the most incompetent, amateurish guides I have ever seen, more interested in throwing parties than enlighte...

Garden park & botanical garden with contemporary landscape design, restaurants & community events.

Stark, marble-clad Fascist monument built in neoclassical style for planned 1942 world exhibition.

Themed, 17th-century garden with a hedge labyrinth, ornate fountains, statues & old Boxwood trees.

18th-century mansion with contemporary American art collection, surrounded by vast parkland.

Octogonal structure ordered by Ostrogothic ruler Theodoric, now about 2m below modern ground level.

Famous golden doors of landmark Baptistery of St. John, with panels depicting Biblical scenes.

👍 Another jewel of Parma and its history, the Gothic church of San Francesco del Prato, first a place of worship, then a prison and now, after the ongoing restoration, a place consecrated in the hands of the friars. A small Notre Dame consolidated by heavy consolidation work, but necessary to preserv...

Natural pool surrounded by rugged limestone cliffs, with caves & a tunnel to the open sea.

Historic Jewish neighborhood now home to 2 synagogues, kosher shops & the Jewish Museum of Venice.