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Museo Etnografico del Friuli
A small but engrossing museum of daily life, with various exhibitions devoted to the Friulian hearth, unusual spiritual practices, folk medicine, furniture production and dress. The building itself features soaring ceilings, intricate 19th-century woodwork with carved Friulian fore
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Galleria Villamarina
Guided visits to Monteponi take in this underground tunnel, which connected the mines two main shafts: the Pozzo Vittorio Emanuele, which was used for access and the transport of material, and the Pozzo Sella, which served to house water pumps.Visits were temporarily suspended at t
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Tempio dei Dioscuri
Four columns mark the Tempio dei Dioscuri, also known as the Temple of Castor and Pollux. Built towards the end of the 5th century, it was destroyed by the Carthaginians, later restored in Hellenistic style, and then destroyed again by an earthquake. What you see today dates from 1
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Museo della Cultura e delle Arti Figurative Bizantine e Normanne
Next to the 16th-century Chiesa di San Teodoro, in a restored 16th-century Benedictine monastery, is a lovely space showing fresco fragments from the towns churches and a somewhat motley collection of columns, capitals and other bits and pieces from the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and
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Museo Diocesano di Venezia
Housed in a former Benedictine monastery dedicated to Sant’Apollonia, this museum has a fairly predictable collection of religious art and the occasional standout temporary show – but the exquisite Romanesque cloister is the sole example of the genre in Venice. The adjoining buildi
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La Maison de la Fontina
Want to find some of the best Valdostan fontina cheese in the valley? This whiffy shop has been stocking the celebrated local cheese since 1937. Fontina must be made from the unpasteurised milk of Valdostan cows, matured in rock tunnels for three months and brushed and salted on al
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Cava dIspica
The town of Ispica, about 12km southeast of Modica, is located at the head of the 13km-long gorge known as Cava dIspica. Long used as a Neolithic burial site, the caves were later transformed into cave dwellings in the Middle Ages. The gorge is tranquil and verdant and you can foll
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Roman Brescia
The most impressive of Brescias Roman relics are the remains of the Tempio Capitolino , a Roman temple built by the Emperor Vespasian in AD 73. Six Corinthian columns stand before a series of cells. About 50m to the east, cobbled Vicolo del Fontanon leads to the overgrown ruins of
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Santuario della Madonna delle Lacrime
Supposedly modelled on the shape of a tear drop, the 102m-high spire of this church dominates Syracuses skyline. The modern church beneath it houses a statue of the Virgin Mary that allegedly wept for five days in 1953 and bestowed more than 300 miraculous cures. To learn more, hea
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Nuraghe di Albucciu
This is the nearest nuraghe to town, and certainly the easiest to find, on the main Olbia road, about 3km south of Arzachena. It’s one of Gallura’s finest prehistoric relics and unusual for several reasons, not least for its flat granite roof instead of the usual tholos (conical sh
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Museo del Vino a Barolo
A capricious jaunt through the history of viticulture via light, film and installations, care of the wild imagination of Swiss designer François Confino (who also designed Turin’s Cinema museum). Its set over three floors of the villages stunning medieval castle and best braved aft
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Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica
This charming museum boasts a fascinating collection of early Mediterranean sculpture. You’ll find Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Assyrian, Cypriot and Egyptian works, all donated to the state by Baron Giovanni Barracco in 1902.The palazzo housing the museum, known as the Piccolo Farnesin
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Museo Archeologico di Palazzo Varisano
This museum reopened in 2011 after years of closure. It has a good collection of local artefacts (labelled in Italian) excavated from throughout the region, as well as objects borrowed from Syracuses and Agrigentos archaeological museums. Of particular interest is the Attic-style r
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Ponte del Diavolo
Splitting the town in two is the symbolic Devils Bridge that crosses the emerald green Natisone river. The 22m-high bridge was first constructed in the 15th century with its central arch supported by a huge rock said to have been thrown into the river by the devil. It was rebuilt p
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Casa Romana
This excavated Roman house isnt exactly Pompeii, but it gives visitors a peek into what a typical home of the area would have looked like in the 1st century BC. Just to the south, near the Piazza Fontana, stand the remains of the Arco di Druso e Germanico (named for the sons of Emp
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Chiesa di Santa Teresa dAvila
On the Giaras southeastern flank, the town of Gesturi is dominated by the 30m-high belltower of the Chiesa di Santa Teresa dAvila. The faithful flock to this 17th-century parish church to celebrate Gesturis greatest son, Fra Nicola Silenzio (1882–1958), a Franciscan friar revered f
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Glorenza
A walled medieval town, Glorenza was once a kingpin in the region’s salt trade. Its pristine burgher houses, colonnaded shops, town gates, fortifications and ramparts were faithfully restored in the 1970s, and while its certainly picturesque, it retains a comforting normalcy, with
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Chiesa di Santa Maria della Grazia
The towns former cathedral, the 16th-century Chiesa di Santa Maria della Grazia, is worth a quick look for its bright majolica-tiled floor, which would look so good in your kitchen back home. The church stands on the northern flank of the central Largo Vescovado. Don’t forget your
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National Museum of Musical Instruments
This little-known museum behind the church of Santa Croce stands on the site of the former home of St Helena. It’s undeservedly and refreshingly deserted, with a collection of over 3000 exquisite musical instruments that includes gorgeously painted, handle-operated 18th-century Nea
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Museo delle Sinópie
Home to some fascinating frescoes, this museum safeguards several sinópie (preliminary sketches), drawn by the artists in red earth pigment on the walls of the Camposanto in the 14th and 15th centuries before the frescoes were overpainted. The museum is a compelling study in fresco
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