Many wealthy and powerful families of sixteenth-century Rome bought property on the Palatine Hill, where they built elaborate gardens filled with sculpture and fountains.
In an unlikely setting of towering loading-dock cranes, piles of coal, and railroad tracks stands the Arch of Trajan, one of the most intact ancient Roman commemorative monuments.
The Viscontian bridge-dam in Valeggio sul Mincio is a remnant of a larger defense system put in place by Count Gian Galeazzo Visconti, when he ruled Lombardy in the late fourteenth century.
Transhumance, the seasonal moving of sheep across vast swaths of grazing lands, has been an essential part of traditional Italian agricultural life since Roman times.
Within the fortress-like Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati complex is an early-13th-century cloister that is possibly the earliest structure in Rome in the Cosmatesque style.
In 1464, Pope Paul II gave the Ciminelli family his blessing to enhance the church of San Pietro Barisano in the I Sassi district of Matera, the easternmost province in the Basilicata region of Italy.
Fire, air, water, earth; represented in a cycle of endangered frescoes in the Palazzo Doria Pamphili, among the most important examples of the stylistic shift from the high to the late Roman baroque.