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Publio Pomponio Corneliano and his family constructed the hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle in the early third century AD.

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.

In 1740, King Charles III embarked on the construction of the Royal Palace of Portici as a summer residence for the court.

The largest and one of the best-preserved Roman ports in the Mediterranean comprises two harbor facilities near the Tiber River.

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.

Aristocratic Romans who followed the doctrines of Neo-Pythagoreanism literally went underground to practice their beliefs.

Established in the late eighteenth century for the city's growing Protestant community, Rome's Cimitero Acattolico, was the final resting place for diplomats, scholars, artists and writers.

Il Ponte della Catene, or the Chains Bridge, spans the Lima River in Tuscany, connecting the towns of Fomoli and Chifenti.

In the second century AD, the Roman emperor Hadrian built a country villa east of the capital to escape the pressures of Rome.

Three mudbrick arches that span a gateway are the world’s oldest known arches made of this material.

Israel’s oldest mosque outside Jerusalem (according to historians) now stands in a town with a mixed population of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

The religious-social leadership of the Israelite nation, Bet She'arim became the preeminent Jewish cultural center following the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70.