Castelli e fortezze, palazzi, ponti storici e opere d'arte fuori dai circuiti, che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
Galatina harbours a breathtaking cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes inside Santa Caterina basilica, rivalling Assisi in silence and beauty.
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
A free museum in Meguro, Tokyo, devoted solely to parasites: 300 specimens and the longest tapeworm in the world, 8.8 metres.
Jun 28, 2026
In Marrakech, next to the Ben Youssef Mosque, the Almoravid Koubba: the only surviving Almoravid building in Marrakech, rediscovered in 1948.
Jun 28, 2026
The Tiskiwin (Bert Flint) museum in Marrakech: a riad in the Medina that recreates the Marrakech-Timbuktu route with Amazigh textiles and objects.
Jun 28, 2026
In Cairo, behind the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, a circular wooden hall where the Mevlevi dervishes danced: the Mevlevi Museum.
Jun 28, 2026
At the Enrique Larreta house-museum in Belgrano survives an Andalusian garden inspired by the Alhambra: box hedges, fountains and majolica in Buenos Aires.
Jun 28, 2026
Beyond Arashiyama, in Kyoto, a hillside temple with 1,200 rakan statues in the moss: each face is different, carved by amateur devotees.
Jun 28, 2026
In Dublin a London plane tree has swallowed a cast-iron bench: the Hungry Tree in the grounds of King's Inns, a quiet botanical curiosity.
Jun 28, 2026