Chiese, pievi, cattedrali e battisteri fuori rotta, tra mosaici, cripte e affreschi che quasi nessuno va a vedere.
Near Grado, the basilica of Aquileia holds 760 square metres of early Christian mosaic: the largest mosaic floor in the West, to be crossed in peace.
Jun 23, 2026
At San Vito dei Normanni, in Apulia, the crypt of San Biagio carved into the tufa preserves some of the finest Byzantine frescoes of 1196.
Jun 23, 2026
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