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Castello Ruffo
An imposing hilltop fortress, this castle has at times been a lighthouse and a monastery. It houses a luntre, the original boat used for swordfishing, and on which the modern-day passarelle (a special swordfish-hunting boat equipped with a 30m-high metal tower) is based.
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Castel Tirolo
The ancestral seat of the counts of Tyrol is home to a dynamically curated museum of Tyrolean history, including, in the keep, the turbulent years of the 20th century. The castle can be reached by taking the chairlift from Merano to Tirolo (Dorf Tirol). Book ahead for tours in Engl
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Alexis
Squatted social centre with murals by Bolognese artist Blue. The centre is named for Alexis Grigoropoulos, the 15-year-old student who was killed, allegedly by a police bullet, during demonstrations in Greece in 2008 – the mural incorporates his portrait and the date of his death.
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Acquario Civico
You’ll be transfixed by the aquatic art nouveau facade, but kids will race ahead to see Lombardy’s fish on display at Europe’s third-oldest aquarium. Turns out mountain streams make for rather predictable silver-on-silver fish, but that only makes the red anemones more splashy.
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Massimo de Carlo
The multilevel gallery Massimo de Carlo is entered via a bridge that gives a full view of the stockroom innards. This Via Ventura pioneer is a must-see, for the stellar line-up of artists - Diego Perrone, Simone Berti, Pei-Ming Yan - as well as the architecturally thoughtful space.
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Museo dellArte Confettiera
This museum is housed in the Fabbrica Confetti Pelino , Sulmonas most famous manufacturer of confetti . The reconstructed 16th-century laboratory looks more like an old-time science lab than a sweet-making plant. Its about 1km from Porta Napoli, at the southern end of Corso Ovidio.
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Chiesa della Solitudine
Although she lived 36 of her 65 years in Rome, Deledda’s life was consumed by Nuoro and its essential dramas. Fittingly, she was brought home to be buried in the plain granite church of the Chiesa della Solitudine. You will find her granite sarcophagus to the right of the altar.
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Chiesa della Misericordia
The dimly lit, 17th-century Chiesa della Misericordia is home to Napoleons death mask.
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Insula Romana
In early 2013 the Museo Archeologico Baglio Anselmi was expanded to include the adjacent Insula Romana, an archaeological site that encompasses the remains of a 3rd-century Roman villa and a splendidly preserved Decumanus Maximus (Roman ceremonial road) paved with giant stones.
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Giardino Botanico Alpino Saussurea
Walk through the flower-filled Alpine garden, Giardino Botanico Alpino Saussurea in summer (its blanketed by snow in winter) and enjoy numerous other trails, including the Sentiero Francesco e Giuditta Gatti, where you have a good chance of spotting ibexes, marmots and deer.
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La Galleria Van der Koelen
Long established in Germany, this branch of the van der Koelen gallery brings a note of contemporary vigour to the somewhat staid Venetian art scene. The gallery frequently stages fine exhibitions of internationally known artists, well worth seeing whether youre a buyer or not.
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Tophet
Some 500m from the towns Museo Archeologico, the tophet is an 8th-century BC sanctuary where the Phoenicians and Carthaginians buried their still-born babies. Before visiting, its worth checking out the tophet display at the Museo Archeologico to see how the tombs were laid out.
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Museo Provinciale
This museum stylishly covers 10,000 years of history, from Palaeolithic and Neolithic bits and bobs to a handsome display of Greek and Roman jewels, weaponry and ornaments. The stars of the show are the Messapians, whose jaunty Mycenaean-inspired jugs and bowls date back 2500 years
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Museo Casa di Dante
The Museo Casa di Dante was built in 1910 above the foundations of Dantes dwelling. Up the road, 11th-century Chiesa di Santa Margherita , dubbed Chiesa di Dante, is where the poet first spied muse Beatrice Portinari and wed Gemma Donati; both women are buried in the church.
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Museo Carandente
The towns premier collection of modern art is named after its late former director and noted art critic, Giovanni Carandente, and has been significantly revamped. The collection is dominated by works of late-20th-century Italian artists, including the sculptor Leonardo Leoncillo.
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Monastero di San Benedetto
This spectacularly sited hilltop monastery carved into the rock over the cave where St Benedict supposedly spent three years meditating in a local cave. Apart from its setting, described by Petrarch as ‘the edge of Paradise’, it boasts a series of rich 13th- to 15th-century frescoe
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Fiera Milano
Massimiliano Fuksas’ brilliantly engineered exhibition space was built on the Agip oil refinery in Rho-Pero, around 40 minutes out of town by metro. In action since 2006, its billowing glass-and-steel sail floats over 1.4km of halls, capable of holding up to half-a-million visitors
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Chiesa di San Bernardino
Worth a visit for Lorenzo Lotto’s stylistically evolved altarpiece, the Pala di San Bernardino (1521), which depicts the Madonna beneath a dynamic, foreshortened canopy deep in intense conversation with her saintly companions. Note the churchs opening hours are very limited.
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Triclinium Leoninum
Behind the Santuario della Scala Santa, you’ll see what appears to be a cut-off cross-section of a building, adorned with a showy gold mosaic. This is the Triclinium Leoninum, an 18th-century reconstruction of the end wall of the banqueting hall in the original Palazzo Laterano.
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Piazza Transalpina
One for cold war kids. The Slovenian border – a mere formality since December 2007 – bisects the edge of Gorizia, and you can celebrate Schengen with a bit of border hopscotch at this piazzas centre, while contemplating the now crumbling fences, border posts and watchtowers.
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