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Paolo Costa & Co
To watch professional sculptors work with Carrara marble, visit these workshops in town. Visiting hours vary considerably, so call ahead.
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Chiesa di San Prospero
Over on Piazza San Prospero, the 15th-century Chiesa di San Prospero is guarded by a royal pair of red marble lions and their four cubs.
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Chiesa di San Michele al Pozzo Bianco
This church is home to an entire Lorenzo Lotto fresco-cycle devoted to the Storie della Vergine (Stories of the Virgin Mother; 1525).
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Chiesa di San Giacomo di Rialto
Steps away from the Rialto Bridge, this church is famous for its 15th-century clock. The building itself dates back to the 11th century.
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Chianca Amara
Viestes most gruesome sight is this worn and polished stone where thousands were beheaded when Turks sacked Vieste in the 16th century.
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Colonna di Marco Aurelio
Towering over Piazza Colonna, the 30m-high Colonna di Marco Aurelio was completed in AD 193 to honour Marcus Aurelius’ military victories.
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Canneto
The nearest beach to Lipari Town is the long, pebbly strip at Canneto, 3km north of town on the other side of a jutting headland.
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Arsenale Vecchio
The Arsenale Vecchio (Old Arsenal) sits at the core of the dockyards and included storage for the bucintoro , the doge’s ceremonial galley.
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Casa Galimberti
Casa Galimberti, with its ceramic tiles depicting bourgeois beauties, is one of the finest pieces of fin-de-siècle Liberty architecture in Italy.
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Museo Paleocristiano
Part of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, this museum houses early- Christian-era mosaics and funerary monuments gathered from the surrounding ruins.
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Museo dei Brettii e degli Enotri
An archaeological museum displaying finds from the Bronze age Enotri culture and the Brettii people who founded Cosenza in the 4th century BC.
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Chiesa di San Simeone Piccolo
Designed by Giovanni Antonio Scalfarotto and completed in 1738, this domed neoclassical building is one of the last churches to be built in Venice.
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Galleria del Costume
Few visitors to Palazzo Pitti get as far as the Galleria del Costume, a parade of fashions from the times of Cosimo I to the haute-couture 1990s.
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Torre di Frederico II
No visit to San Miniato is complete without a stiff hike up this reconstructed medieval fortress tower – the panorama at the grassy top is wonderful.
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Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra
Highlights of Albenga include the Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra , featuring a painting by Caravaggio.
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Teatro Rendano
Head along the corso to Piazza XV Marzo, an appealing square fronted by the Palazzo del Governo and the handsome neoclassical Teatro Rendano.
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Fossola Beach
This small pebbly beach is immediately southeast of Riomaggiore marina. Its rugged but secluded. Swimmers should be wary of rocks and currents.
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Fontana delle Rane
A landmark in the Coppedè neighbourhood, the Fontana delle Rane is a modern take on the better known Fontana delle Tartarughe in the Jewish Ghetto.
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Palazzo de Mozzi
Pope Gregory X stayed at this early Renaissance palazzo (palace) when brokering peace between the Guelps and Ghibellines in the 13th century.
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Palazzo Pamphilj
Built between 1644 and 1650, this elegant baroque palazzo has been home to the Brazilian Embassy since 1920. Its not open to the general public.
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