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20 overlooked corners inside the great landmarks of Italy — sourced, multilingual, read aloud on the spot.

Basilica of San Vitale
The Basilica of San Vitale rose on the site of a small chapel said to mark the tomb of St. Vitalis. Work began…
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Castel Sant'Angelo
Castel Sant'Angelo rises on the right bank of the Tiber, directly across from the Bridge of Angels and a short…
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Circus Maximus
Tucked into the valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills, a long sweep of open lawn — roughly 600 metres…
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Colosseum
This vast oval ring at the centre of Rome is the largest Roman amphitheatre still standing, originally named t…
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Doge's Palace
Seen from the Piazzetta di San Marco, the Doge's Palace looks like an act of architectural defiance: massive m…
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Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze)
The Florence skyline belongs to this cathedral — the Duomo di Firenze, as locals call it. It stands on ground…
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Hadrian's Villa
Hadrian's Villa is the sprawling imperial retreat that Emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138 CE) built on the outskirts…
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Herculaneum
Herculaneum was buried along with Pompeii in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, but met a different fate: this…
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Milan Cathedral
Look up, and the whole church rises like a mountain of white marble grown up between the brick townhouses—this…
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Ostia Antica
Four kilometres from the mouth of the Tiber, a nearly complete Roman city lies spread across a flat, soft-eart…
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Paestum
Paestum began as Poseidonia, a Greek colonial city dedicated to Poseidon, god of the sea — though Athena and H…
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Palatine Hill
The Palatine is one of Rome's seven hills, rising about 51 metres between the Velabrum depression and the Roma…
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Piazza dei Miracoli
Walk northwest from Pisa Centrale station and you'll run into a lawn so vast it barely seems real — four white…
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Poggiomarino
Poggiomarino sits in the Sarno River valley east of Vesuvius, on the edge of the Naples metropolitan area. Mos…
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Pompeii
Pompeii is an ancient Roman city frozen in volcanic ash. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried the entire…
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Roman Forum
Wedged between the Palatine Hill, the Capitoline Hill, the Via dei Fori Imperiali, and the Colosseum, the Roma…
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Santa Maria delle Grazie
On Milan's Corso Magenta, this brick-and-white-marble church is modest enough to walk past without a second gl…
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St Mark's Square
Stand on this marble-paved expanse, enclosed on three sides by continuous arcades, with the gilded facade of S…
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Trajan's Column
Trajan's Column rises from a narrow inner courtyard deep within Trajan's Forum, behind the Basilica Ulpia, onc…
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Uffizi Gallery
Walk into the Uffizi and you are really walking into an 'office block.' In 1560 Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscan…
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