Aquileia: walking on the largest early Christian mosaic in the West
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.
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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
Behind the gates of the Quadrilatero Romano, in Turin, silent courtyards and Baroque staircases open up a stone's throw from the Mole.
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In the Rione Sanità of Naples, a 17th-century basilica and the Cripta dei Cristallini, a Hellenistic burial ground, guard the buried Greek city.
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A stone's throw from the Imperial Forums, the Renaissance loggia of the Knights of Rhodes looks out over the Forum of Augustus: an almost secret medieval balcony.
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On the Epipoli plateau above Siracusa stands one of the most imposing Greek fortresses: walls, moats and tunnels that are almost always deserted.
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On Calabria's Ionian tip, at Capo Colonna near Crotone, a single Doric column remains: the last witness of the great sanctuary of Hera.
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Near the sea of Metaponto, fifteen Doric columns have stood for 25 centuries among the fields: the Magna Graecia temple that few come looking for.
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Perched at 800 metres between the Aspromonte and the Ionian, Bova is the capital of the Greek-speaking area and guards one of Italy's most ancient linguistic minorities.
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A few kilometres from Trier, the Roman Villa of Nennig holds one of the largest Roman mosaics north of the Alps, almost always without visitors.
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