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.
On the Golden Horn, in Hasköy, an 18th-century Ottoman kiosk-palace with Venetian mirrors and a museum of Turkish musical instruments.
Jun 28, 2026
In Karaköy, a minute from the ferries, a wholly underground mosque in the dungeons of a Byzantine fortress. Squat pillars and three tombs.
Jun 28, 2026
St. Stephen in Balat (Istanbul): a church of cast iron founded in Vienna, a Bulgarian symbol on the Golden Horn. Free entry.
Jun 28, 2026
At 804 metres above Genoa, the basilica of the Guardia on Monte Figogna: a pilgrimage along ancient ridge paths, sea views and silence.
Jun 23, 2026
On the Pordenone plain, Sesto al Reghena is a Lombard monastic village: its thousand-year-old basilica holds frescoes and silence.
Jun 23, 2026
At Capo di Ponte, in Italy's first archaeological park, more than a hundred rocks guard the rock carvings of the Camunni: eight thousand years of history.
Jun 23, 2026
In Pinzolo, on the church of San Vigilio, the Danse Macabre: a procession of skeletons twenty-two metres long, painted almost five centuries ago.
Jun 23, 2026
Above Merano, Castel Tirolo guards a double chapel and Romanesque marble portals, reachable only on foot by leaving the car down in the valley.
Jun 23, 2026
The Pieve of San Pietro di Feletto, among the Prosecco hills, guards the extremely rare fresco of the Christ of the Sunday.
Jun 23, 2026