Religious Places

The Abbey of Farfa is one of the most distinguished monuments of the European Middle Ages; it had the patronage of Charlemagne and owned, in its heyda… Read the rest

The Benedictine monks of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto, also called Olivetans, were founded in 1319 by the Sienese Saint Bernard Tolomei (1272 –… Read the rest

It stands on a semicircular, impervious flight of steps, in a square plaza with the streets intersecting at the place once marked by the column with t… Read the rest

The hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso was built on a rock overlooking the lake, far from the mainland and connected to it only by a very long, ste… Read the rest

The Upper Church During the century of the plague, exactly in 1605, a group of nobles gave life to an Opera Pia, a lay congregation whose main pu… Read the rest

The real church dedicated to the Madonna of the same name is not the one visible to the eyes of the passerby, but is the one below, which was buried f… Read the rest

The Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe stands grand and solemn about 8 km from the center of Ravenna. It was built by Giuliano Argentario on… Read the rest

The Basilica of San Vitale is one of the most important monuments of early Christian art in Italy, especially for the beauty of its mosaics. Founded b… Read the rest

The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (386-452), sister of the Roman emperor Honorius, is a Christian funerary monument. Built in the shape of a Latin cro… Read the rest

The Church of Sant’ Eligio Maggiore is one of the earliest Angevin churches built in Naples and represents one of the examples of Southern Gothi… Read the rest