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Roman Arena
Built of pink-tinged marble in the 1st century AD, Veronas Roman amphitheatre survived a 12th-century earthquake to become the city’s legendary open-air opera house, with seating for 30,000 people. You can visit the arena year-round, though it’s at its best during the summer opera
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Castello di Duino
Fourteen kilometres northwest along the coast from Miramare, this 14th- and 15th-century bastion picturesquely marches down the cliff, surrounded by a verdant garden. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke was a guest here from 1911–12, a melancholy and windswept winter stay which produced the Du
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Casa Romei
This palace was once owned by Giovanni Romei, a top administrator to the Este clan – and his importance shows in the architecture. The austere brick exterior hides a peaceful inner patio (once part of an adjacent monastery). On the 1st floor is a 16th-century apartment preserved in
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Arco di Augusto
This Roman triumphal arch, the oldest of its kind in northern Italy, was commissioned by Emperor Augustus in 27 BC and stands an impressive 17m high on modern-day Corso dAugusto. It was once the end point of the ancient Via Flaminia that linked Rimini with Rome. Buildings that had
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Santa Marina Salina
Salinas main port, Santa Marina is a typical island settlement with steeply stacked whitewashed houses rising up the hillside. The principal street is Via Risorgimento , a lively pedestrian-only strip lined by cafes and boutiques. Its not a big place, and there are no specific sigh
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Fortezza di Monte Altura
Standing sentinel on a rocky crag, this sturdy 19th-century bastion was built to help defend the north coast and Arcipelago di La Maddalena from invasion – something it was never called on to do. A guided 45-minute tour leads you to watchtowers and battlements with panoramic views
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Squero di San Trovaso
The wood cabin along Rio di San Trovaso looks like a stray ski chalet, but it’s one of Venices three working squeri (shipyards), with refinished gondolas drying in the yard. When the doors open, you can peek inside, in exchange for a donation left in the can. To avoid startling gon
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Museo Joyce & Svevo
Joyce would enjoy the irony: his museum really belongs to friend and fellow literary great, Italo Svevo, housing a significant collection of the Triestinis first editions, photos and other memorabilia. Joyce is dealt with ephemerally, with a wall map of his haunts and homes and a B
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MAMbo
Avant-gardes, atheists and people whove had their fill of dark religious art can seek solace in one of Bolognas newer museums (opened 2007) housed in a cavernous former municipal bakery. Its permanent and rotating exhibits showcase the work of up-and-coming Italian artists. Entranc
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Museo del Coltello Sardo
Just off Piazza Mercato, the Museo del Coltello Sardo is dedicated to the ancient Sardinian art of knife-making. The museum was founded by Paolo Pusceddu, whose sarburesi (from Arbus) knives are among the most prized on the island. Check out Signor Pusceddus historic knife collecti
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Tempio di Minerva
The Tempio di Minerva, facing Piazza del Comune and Palazzo dei Priori, is now a church but retains its impressive pillared façade with six fluted columns dating back to Roman times. The turn-of-the-millennium pagan temple, dedicated to the goddess of peace, is featured as the back
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Oratorio di San Bernardino
Nestled in the shadow of the huge Gothic church of San Francesco , this 15th-century oratory is dedicated to St Bernardino and decorated with Mannerist frescoes by Il Sodoma, Beccafumi and Pacchia. Upstairs, the small Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra has some lovely paintings, includi
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Il Casinò Municipale
San Remos belle époque casino, one of only four in Italy, was dealing cards when Vegas was still a waterhole in the desert. The building dates from 1905 and was designed by Parisian architect Eugenio Ferret. Slot machines (over 400 of them) open at 10am; other games (roulette, blac
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Chiesa e Battistero dei SS Giovanni e Reparata
The 12th-century interior of this deconsecrated church is a hauntingly atmospheric setting for summertime opera recitals; buy tickets in advance inside the church. In the north transept, the Gothic baptistry crowns an archaeological area comprising five building levels going back t
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Chiesa di San Silvestro
This church was founded in the 9th century, but with a rather dangerous tendency to slump. The structure had to be completely overhauled several times, most recently in the 20th century – hence the rather bland but reassuringly solid neoclassical facade. Inside is Tintoretto’s rece
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Arco di San Benedetto
The Arco di San Benedetto is an arch built by the Benedictines in 1704. According to legend, it was built in one night to defy a city ordnance against its construction on the grounds that it was a seismic liability. On the left past the arch is the imposing Chiesa di San Benedetto,
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La Casbah
At the northwest corner of the historic centre, this multicultural maze of narrow streets was once the heart of the Saracen city. The main thoroughfare was Via Bagno, which still has its hammam (public baths). Today, the area is run-down but interesting, in large part because it re
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Terme Stabiane
At this typical 2nd-century-BC bath complex, bathers would enter from the vestibule, stop off in the vaulted apodyterium (changing room), and then pass through to the tepidarium (warm room) and caldarium (hot room). Particularly impressive is the stuccoed vault in the mens changing
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Bastione San Remy
The monumental stairway that ascends from busy Piazza Costituzione to Bastione San Remy is the most impressive way to reach Il Castello; save your legs by taking the panoramic elevator. Built between 1899 and 1902, the lookout is a mix of neoclassical and Liberty styles and affords
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Tempio Capitolino
Brescias most impressive Roman relic is this temple built by Emperor Vespasian in AD 73. Today, six Corinthian columns stand before a series of cells. Guided tours (50 minutes, hourly) reveal authentic decorations, including original coloured marble floors, altars and religious sta
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