Borghi, arte e storia minore
Si occupa di borghi, centri storici, chiese e siti archeologici: paesi sotto i mille abitanti e architetture fuori dalle guide turistiche ufficiali.
In Malasaña, Madrid, a baroque church with an elliptical plan, its walls and dome entirely frescoed. Limited opening hours, almost always deserted.
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In Madrid, a metro station closed in 1966 is now a free museum: 1920s tilework and advertising signs left perfectly intact.
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At Carrer del Paradís 10, in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, four 2,000-year-old Roman columns stand in the courtyard of a building. Free admission.
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A 12th-century Romanesque church with a Gothic cloister, tucked away in a lane just steps from Plaça Catalunya, in Barcelona.
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Air-raid shelter 307 in Poble-sec, Barcelona: 200 metres of Civil War tunnels, visitable only on tours run by the MUHBA museum.
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The oldest house in Athens is an Ottoman konaki in Plaka: a wine press, a courtyard with a well, and free admission at 96 Adrianou street.
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An 11th-century Byzantine monastery in the pine woods of Mount Hymettus, 7 km from Athens: a dome on Roman columns, frescoes from 1682, and a sacred spring.
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In Athens, where Plato founded the Academy in 387 BC, a free archaeological park survives in a residential neighbourhood, almost devoid of tourists.
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In Fener, Istanbul, the only Byzantine church that always remained Greek Orthodox: hidden behind a wall, you enter by ringing the bell.
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