Chiese, pievi, cattedrali e battisteri fuori rotta, tra mosaici, cripte e affreschi che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
On Lake Lugano stands the oldest Christian building in Switzerland: an octagonal baptistery fifteen centuries old, still little visited.
Jun 23, 2026
Among the hills of the Varese area, a small stone church preserves one of the most extraordinary cycles of early medieval frescoes in Europe.
Jun 23, 2026
In Acqui Terme, a Romanesque basilica preserves a rare octagonal bell tower from the 11th century: a thousand years of stone in the Alto Monferrato.
Jun 23, 2026
In the Vallo di Diano, San Giovanni in Fonte is an early Christian baptistery built over a spring that still fills the font, near the Charterhouse.
Jun 23, 2026
A few kilometres from the crowded Sassi of Matera, a cave painted by an anonymous Lombard master guards extraordinary frescoes that almost no one sees.
Jun 21, 2026
In Tuscania, off the beaten track, a medieval church preserves a cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes that almost no one comes to see.
Jun 21, 2026
In the heart of Albenga, the Early Christian Baptistery guards ancient mosaics in a silence that, a few steps from the Ligurian beaches, seems impossible.
Jun 21, 2026
Among the hills of the Logudoro, the church of the Santissima Trinità at Saccargia rises alone with its black-and-white stripes: Sardinian Romanesque with no crowds.
Jun 21, 2026
In Cividale del Friuli, the Lombard Tempietto preserves stuccoes and frescoes: a masterpiece of early-medieval art still little visited.
Jun 21, 2026