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Museo Multimediale del Canto a Tenore
Bitti has been made famous in recent years by its singing quartet, the Tenores de Bitti. This male-only vocal group is the most famous exponent of the island’s traditional form of harmonic singing. To learn more, stop off at the Museo Multimediale del Canto a Tenore, where you can
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Museo Archeologica della Linguelle
Napoleon was imprisoned at the start of his fleeting exile on Elba in 1814 in 16th-century Torre del Martello . The russet-red, octagonal tower remained a prison until 1877. The archaeological ruins in front of it were part of a luxurious Roman villa between the 1st and 5th centuri
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Teatro Farnese
Rebuilt to original plans after WWII bombing, this theatre is almost entirely made out of wood. The great Monteverdi, frustrated by the theatres acoustic problems before its inaugural event in 1628, was forced to put his orchestra in a pit below the stage – long before 19th-century
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Parco Minerario Naturalistico Gavorrano
The Parco Minerario Naturalistico Gavorrano is a museum and education centre in a huge former pyrite mine that operated from 1898 to 1984 and was once Europes largest mine. A section of the mines 180km of underground galleries can be visited in a fascinating guided tour incorporati
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Giardino Botanico Alpinia
More than 1000 Alpine and sub-Alpine species flourish in this 4 hectare botanical garden set part-way up Monte Mottarone. It was founded in 1934 and profiles trees and shrubs from as far away as China and Japan against a backdrop of fine lake views. Access is via the Stresa–Mottaro
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Explora – Museo dei Bambini di Roma
Rome’s only dedicated kids’ museum, Explora is aimed at the under-12s. It’s divided into thematic sections and with everything from a supermarket to a play pool and fire engine, it’s a hands-on, feet-on, full-on experience that your nippers will love. Outside there’s also a free pl
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Chiesa di San Geremia
This otherwise uninspiring 18th-century church contains the body of St Lucy (Santa Lucia), who was martyred in Syracuse in AD 304. Her body was stolen by Venetian merchants from Constantinople in 1204 and moved to San Geremia after the Palladian church of Santa Lucia was demolished
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Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale
Located 4km north of town towards the airport, this church was built by Prince Philip of Taranto around 1300. The church mixes up Puglian Romanesque, Gothic and Byzantine styles, with a Byzantine banquet of interior frescoes. The immense Last Judgement on the entrance wall, full of
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Palazzo Rosso
Lavishly frescoed rooms in Palazzo Rosso, part of the Musei di Strada Nuova, provide the backdrop for several portraits by Van Dyck of the local Brignole-Sale family. Other standouts include Guido Reni’s San Sebastiano and Guercino’s La morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra),
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Punta Bonfiglio
Manarolas prized viewpoint is on a rocky promontory on the path out of town towards Corniglia where walkers stop for classic photos of the village. A rest area, including a kids playground, has been constructed here and theres also a bar just below. Nearby are the ruins of an old c
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Torre degli Ercolani
This 40m-high tower, west of the Chiesa di San Pietro Martire, is the tallest of the towns medieval towers. Palazzetto Longobardo , a 12th-century Lombard-Romanesque defensive position and now the Ostello dei Longobardi youth hostel, abuts the tower. Just to the north is the well-p
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Museo della Repubblica Romana e della Memoria Garibaldina
Housed in the 19th-century Porta San Pancrazio, which played a major role in the desperate defence of Rome against the French led by Giuseppe Garibaldi. This small museum gives the background to Garibaldi and his followers, and their role in Italian history, featuring vivid diorama
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Museo dellAntico Palazzo dei Vescovi
The bishops palace, the oldest building in Pistoia wedged next to the cathedral, provides a fascinating tour of Pistoias urban history, ranging from touchable scale models of key architectural gems such as Pistoia cathedral and the baptistry on the 1st floor, and a subterranean tou
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Museo del Palazzo Apostolico
Housed in the popes traditional summer residence, the Palazzo Apostolico (also known as the Palazzo Pontificio), this recently opened museum displays portraits of around 50 popes as well as costumes, robes and assorted papal paraphernalia. Note that visits must be booked in advance
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Museo Delle Conce
On the south bank of the river, this museum occupies the towns former tanneries which were still in business until after WWII. On the ground floor you can see the original stone tanks where the leather hides were washed; upstairs, explanatory panels and a small collection of photos
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Palazzo Orsini
Interlinked Piazza Petruccioli and Piazza Garibaldi provide a majestic walkway towards this 13th-century castle, which was enlarged by the ruling Orsinis in the 16th century, became the residence of the local bishop and is now a museum. Its rooms are filled with an eclectic collect
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Porta Maggiore
Porta Maggiore was built by Claudius in AD 52. Then, as now, it was a major road junction under which passed the two main southbound roads, Via Prenestina and Via Labicana (modern-day Via Casilina). The arch supported two aqueducts – the Acqua Claudia and the Acqua Aniene Nuova – a
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Pineta degli Alberoni
Right at the southern tip of the island, the Alberoni pine forest slopes down to the Lido’s wildest, most scenic beach. These WWF-protected dunefields and walking trails are the stuff of Shelley’s poems and Byron’s early-morning rides. The majority of the beach is open to the publi
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Cappella di San Nicola di Bari
The little church near the top of Monte Epomeo is the 15th-century Cappella di San Nicola di Bari, which features a pretty majolica floor. The adjoining hermitage was built in the 18th century by an island governor who, after narrowly escaping death, swapped politics for poverty an
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Arche Scaligere
Walk through the archway at the far end of Piazza dei Signori to these ornate Gothic funerary monuments, the elaborate tombs of the Della Scala family, in front of the little Santa Maria Antica church. In the courtyard behind the Arche, have a look at the scavi (excavation work) th
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