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Museo Etnografico
In the towns historic centre, you can investigate age-old living habits at this museum, with its assortment of traditional farm and household implements.
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Monastero di Santa Giulia & Basilica di San Salvatore
About 50m east of the Tempio Capitolino along Via dei Musei, cobbled Vicolo del Fontanon leads to the well-preserved ruins of a Roman theatre. Continuing east youll reach Brescias most intriguing sight - the jumbled Monastero di Santa Giulia & Basilica di San Salvatore.
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Palazzo Nuovo
The white, porticoed Palazzo Nuovo defines the northern side of Piazza Vecchia. Designed in 1611 by a brilliant architectural mind from Vicenza, Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548–1616), it was not actually completed until 1928. Long the seat of the town hall, its been a library since 1873.
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Civica
This new city gallery project space is the current Trento campus of MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto) and focusses on 20th-century and contemporary art of the region. Its a beautiful little space and theres a small but interesting shop in the entrace
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Chiesa di San Pietro
Before you head up to the Giara, check out the Chiesa di San Pietro in Tuili. Its often closed but if you can get inside, it harbours a fine retablo (altarpiece) made by the Maestro di Castelsardo in 1500.
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Chiesa di San Gavino
In Gavoi village centre, the Chiesa di San Gavino was built in the 16th century to a Gothic-Catalan design, as evidenced by the plain red trachyte facade and splendid rose window. From the piazza outside the church, cobbled alleyways lead up through the medieval borgo (village).
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Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate
A short walk from Ponte Vecchio on the southern side of the river is the little Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate. Featuring a 16th-century Gothic facade in red trachyte stone, it’s only open during the festival dedicated to St Antonio Abate on 16 and 17 January and again at Carnevale.
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Synagogue
This imposing and richly decorated neoclassical synagogue, built in 1912, is testament to Triestes once significant Jewish community. Heavily damaged during WWII, it has been meticulously restored and remains one of the most important, and profoundly beautiful, synagogues in Italy.
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Tusculum
If you have a car, head up to the ruins of ancient Tusculum . All that remains of this once-imposing 4th-century-BC town is a small amphitheatre, a crumbling villa and a small stretch of road leading up to the city, but it’s a lovely spot for a walk, and the views are stupendous.
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Villa Monastero
At Villa Monastero elegant balustrades and statues sit amid exotic shrubs; spiky yucca trees frame lake and mountain views. The villa itself is a former convent that was turned into a private residence in the 18th century – which explains the giddy opulence of some of the 11 rooms.
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Porto Fluviale
Scattered remnants of the Roman town include extensive ruins of the Porto Fluviale, the old port, which once linked the settlement to the sea. Also free to visit are the partially restored remains of houses, road and the standing columns of the ancient Forum on Via Giulia Augusta.
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Piazza di Santo Spirito
Florences most lively, yet laid-back and local piazza is lined with good cafés and bars spilling out onto the square beneath the façade of Brunelleschis basilica. It attracts a mixed crowd of students, layabouts, artists, slumming uptowners, savvy foreigners and dodgy hash dealers.
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Cappella di San Brizio
Inside the cathedral, Luca Signorelli’s fresco cycle, Il Giudizio Universale (The Last Judgment), shimmers with life in this chapel to the right of the altar. Signorelli began work on the series in 1499. Michelangelo is said to have taken inspiration from it for the Sistine Chapel.
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Acquario Marino
Barely 100m from Piazza Venezia stands the waterfront Acquario Marino , where you can view some of the denizens of the Adriatic deep, as well as tropical fish. The former fish market (1913), which fills the southern half of the building, is being developed as a future exhibition sp
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Catacombe di San Giovanni
A block north of the archaeological museum, this vast labyrinth of 10,000 underground tombs dates back to Roman times. A 30-minute guided tour ushers visitors through the catacombs as well as the atmospheric ruins of the Basilica di San Giovanni , Syracuses earliest cathedral.
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Galleria Lorcan ONeill
Kick-started by a London art dealer and set in a converted stable, this is one of Romes most respected private galleries, bringing edgy international names to the city - think Tracey Emin and Max Rental - as well as displaying local talent such as Luigi Ontani and Pietro Ruffo.
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Galleria dArte Moderna e Contemporanea
The modern works by Italian artists displayed here include pieces by Giacomo Balla, Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio de Chirico and Filippo de Pisis. A contribution from Vassily Kandisky lends an international touch. Admission prices and opening hours vary for temporary exhibitions.
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MUB Museo della Bonifica
Housed in a renovated mill, Arboreas civic museum charts the reclaiming (bonifica) of the land on which the town now sits. Theres also a small archaeological section displaying nuraghic and ancient artefacts unearthed at the Necropoli di SUngroni and other sites in the vicinity.
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Tempio di San Fortunato
The lofty medieval Tempio di San Fortunato has frescoes by Masolino da Panicale, and contains the tomb of Beato Jacopone, Todi’s beloved patron saint. Inside, make it a point to climb the Campanile di San Fortunato , where views of the hills and castles surrounding Todi await.
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Sa Sedda ‘e Sos Carros
The 5-hectare site of Sa Sedda ‘e Sos Carros in the Valle di Lanaittu is sprinkled with the remains of some 150 nuraghe huts. But the most interesting ruin is the circular Temple of the Sacred Well, surrounded by stone spouts that would have fed spring water into a huge central bas
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