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Museo Malacologico
This esoteric shell museum has four rooms of fossils and molluscs, some enormous and all beautifully patterned and coloured. Note the seasonal opening hours.
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Museo per la Storia dellUniversità di Pavia
The stately campus of the Università degli Studi di Pavia houses the small Museo per la Storia dell’Università di Pavia , with exhibits on its history.
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Museo dellEmigrazione Eoliana
This museum in Palazzo Marchetti near the top of Malfa gives visitors a sobering perspective on the scale and effect of emigration from the Aeolian Islands.
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Tempio di Venere
Immediately on the right as you enter the ruins main entrance is the 1st-century BC Tempio di Venere, formerly one of the towns most opulent temples.
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Sala del Tricolore
At a meeting in the Sala del Tricolore in 1797, Napoleons short-lived Cispadane Republic was proclaimed and the tricolour flag was adopted for the first time.
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Portico degli Dei Consenti
At the foot of the Campidoglio hill in the Roman Forum, this colonnaded portico was one of ancient Romes last pagan monuments, dating to the 4th century AD.
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Torre dei Fromage
Named after a family rather than a cheese, this tower is closed to the public except during temporary art exhibitions; the tourist office has a program.
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Giro di Sole
This striking, life-size sculpture of three blindfolded men (1996) by contemporary Pistoia artist Roberto Barni (b 1939) sits in Piazzetta degli Orgaggi.
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Sa Bovida Prigione Spagnola
Just off the main drag is this 16th-century prison. Built of dark grey schist stone, this chilling jail was used as a maximum-security facility right up until the 1940s.
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Obelisk
Towering over Piazza del Popolo, this 36m-high obelisk was brought to Rome by Augustus from Heliopolis in ancient Egypt. It originally stood in the Circo Massimo.
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Museo Morandi
On the 2nd floor of Palazzo Comunale youll find the art gallery Museo Morandi which is dedicated to the trademark still lives of Bolognese artist Giorgio Morandi.
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Museo del Carnevale
Discover carnival history and the art of making teste in capo (the giant heads worn in processions) and mascheroni a piedi (big walking masks) in the Museo del Carnevale.
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Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige
Alto Adige’s wondrous flora, fauna and geology can be discovered at the Museo di Scienze Naturali dell’Alto Adige. The centrepiece is its gigantic saltwater aquarium.
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Juventus Museum
The state-of-the-art Juventus Stadium has a museum that will blind you with its silverware (28 league titles – and the rest!) and proudly recount how it was all amassed.
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Galleria Parmeggiani
The towns main art gallery holds some worthwhile Italian, Flemish and Spanish paintings, as well as a heterogeneous collection of costumes, arms, jewellery and cutlery.
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Stagno S’Ena Arrubia
Six kilometres to the south of Santa Giusta, the Stagno S’Ena Arrubia is a paradise for birdwatchers – flamingos, herons, coots and ospreys are regularly sighted.
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Tempio di Nettuno
Dating from about 450 BC, the Tempio di Nettuno is the largest and best preserved of the three temples at Paestum; only parts of its inside walls and roof are missing.
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Tempio di Giulio Cesare
This temple, also known as the Tempio del Divo Giulio, was built by Augustus in 29 BC on the spot where Julius Caesar had earlier been cremated in the Roman Forum.
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Garibaldi Monument
Giuseppe Garibaldi defended Rome against French troops sent to restore papal rule in 1849, and this commemorative statue was raised to the hero of unification in 1895.
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Chiesa di San Paolo
Another granite church worth a look is the 18th-century Chiesa di San Paolo, spectacularly topped by a Valencian-style multicoloured tiled dome (added after WWII).
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