Castelli e fortezze, palazzi, ponti storici e opere d'arte fuori dai circuiti, che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
Palmanova, Friuli's nine-pointed star fortress, is a masterpiece of Renaissance military urbanism still perfectly intact and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Jul 5, 2026
Issogne hides a Renaissance courtyard with a wrought-iron pomegranate fountain and frescoes vividly depicting daily life in fifteenth-century Aosta Valley.
Jul 5, 2026
Follina, a jewel of the Trevisan hills: a twelfth-century Cistercian abbey, historic woollen mills and the silence of the UNESCO Prosecco hills.
Jul 5, 2026
Troia, on the Tavoliere plain, holds Puglia's finest Romanesque rose window and a bronze door cast in 1119, a masterpiece almost nobody visits.
Jul 5, 2026
Gravina in Puglia rivals Matera: an aqueduct bridge over the gorge, Byzantine cave churches with frescoes, and a historic centre carved into rock.
Jul 5, 2026
Galatina harbours a breathtaking cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes inside Santa Caterina basilica, rivalling Assisi in silence and beauty.
Jul 5, 2026
At the foot of the Euganean Hills, Este holds a museum of rare importance on the Paleovenetic world and an imposing Carraresi castle amid gardens and history.
Jul 5, 2026
Torrechiara castle, among the Parma hills, shelters the Camera d'Oro with Bembo's love frescoes and sweeping views over the Val Parma.
Jul 5, 2026
Among the Balze cliffs of the Valdarno, the Orientalist castle of Sammezzano guards the most colourful rooms in Tuscany, today closed to the public.
Jul 1, 2026