Architecture
Churches, palaces, castles and squares: Italian buildings and the people who designed them.
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Royal Palace of Caserta
Vanvitelli's Bourbon answer to Versailles: four courtyards, a Royal Staircase and a park with a three-kilometer cascade.
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Solari’s Lombard church and Bramante’s tribune are free to visit; Leonardo’s Last Supper occupies the separately ticketed former refectory.
Basilica of San Vitale
A sixth-century octagonal basilica where layered galleries, imperial mosaics, marble and a later painted vault meet.
Places to see
Basilica of San Francesco
The double basilica over Saint Francis's tomb, its walls covered by Giotto and Cimabue's frescoes.
Villa La Rotonda
Palladio's four-fronted domed villa outside Vicenza, the most imitated house design in the world.
Modena Cathedral
Europe's purest Romanesque cathedral, signed by its makers in 1099, beside the leaning Ghirlandina tower.
Scrovegni Chapel
Giotto's early fourteenth-century fresco cycle in Padua, the chapel where modern painting begins.
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