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  • Statue of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles I of Spain, 1500-58, by Vincenzo Gemito, 1852-1929, on the facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples was ruled by Charles V 1519-55 but was de facto governed by a viceroy. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele, an opera house designed in Neoclassical style by Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile and Ernesto Basile and opened in 1897, on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The theatre is the largest in Italy and reopened in 1997 after restoration. Palermo was founded in 734 BC by the Phoenicians, and was settled by the Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Normans. Its Arab and Norman centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • SVA aeroplane flown by D'Annunzio over Vienna on 9th August 1918 to launch flyers announcing Italy’s victory, hanging from the ceiling in the auditorium at Vittoriale degli italiani, or The Shrine of Italian Victories, the home, estate and museums of Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1863-1938, Italian writer, soldier and fascist, at Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The Auditorium seats 200 and is used for conventions, events and performances. A video shows the rooms in the Priory and the museum, and photographic exhibitions explore the life of d’Annunzio and Il Vittoriale. The estate consists of the Prioria, where d'Annunzio lived 1922-38, an amphitheatre, the protected cruiser Puglia, the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a mausoleum. It is part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • SVA aeroplane flown by D'Annunzio over Vienna on 9th August 1918 to launch flyers announcing Italy’s victory, hanging from the ceiling in the auditorium at Vittoriale degli italiani, or The Shrine of Italian Victories, the home, estate and museums of Gabriele D'Annunzio, 1863-1938, Italian writer, soldier and fascist, at Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. The Auditorium seats 200 and is used for conventions, events and performances. A video shows the rooms in the Priory and the museum, and photographic exhibitions explore the life of d’Annunzio and Il Vittoriale. The estate consists of the Prioria, where d'Annunzio lived 1922-38, an amphitheatre, the protected cruiser Puglia, the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a mausoleum. It is part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female geometric figure in marble, early Chalcolithic period, 4th millennium BC, from the Domus de Janas necropolis, Porto Ferro, Sardinia, Italy, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View over the historic centre of Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Via Pedamentina San Martino, a steep street with views over the city, and a building with graffiti, in Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • View over the Gulf of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the distance, Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • People walking down the Via Pedamentina San Martino, a steep street with views over the city, in Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Graffiti on the Via Pedamentina San Martino, a steep street with views over the city, in Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250, by Emanuele Caggiano, 1837-1905, on the main facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. Beneath the statue is the excommunication bubble launched by Pope Gregory XI and a series of manuscript codes, and reference to the foundation of Studio Napoletano in 1224, now the University of Naples Federico II. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1194-1250, by Emanuele Caggiano, 1837-1905, on the main facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. Beneath the statue is the excommunication bubble launched by Pope Gregory XI and a series of manuscript codes, and reference to the foundation of Studio Napoletano in 1224, now the University of Naples Federico II. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Carlo I D'Angio or Charles I of Anjou, 1226-85, by Tommaso Solari, 1820-89, on the main facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. The sculpture appears fierce and disdainful. Charles ruled over the Kingdom of Naples after the separation of Sicily. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Carlo I D'Angio or Charles I of Anjou, 1226-85, by Tommaso Solari, 1820-89, on the main facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. The sculpture appears fierce and disdainful. Charles ruled over the Kingdom of Naples after the separation of Sicily. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Alfonso V of Aragon, 1396-1458, or Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Naples and Sicily, by Achille D’Orsi, 1845-1929, on the Western facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. Alfonso defeated the Angevins and triumphantly entered Naples on February 23rd, 1442. He commissioned the triumphal arch at the Castel Nuovo. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Charles I of Spain, 1500-58, by Vincenzo Gemito, 1852-1929, on the facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy. Naples was ruled by Charles V 1519-55 but was de facto governed by a viceroy. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Charles III of Bourbon, King of Spain and Charles VII of Naples, 1716-88, by Raffaele Belliazzi, 1835-1917, on the facade of the Palazzo Reale de Napoli, on the Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Campania, Italy.  Charles is named as Carlo III, an attempt by the Savoys to hide the Bourbon dynasty in the history of Naples. The Royal Palace of Naples was a residence of the Bourbon Kings, built in the 17th and 18th centuries in Italian Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Church of San Francesco di Paola on the Piazza del Plebiscito, the main square in Naples, Campania, Italy. The square and church were designed in the 19th century by King Joachim Murat of Naples as a tribute to Napoleon. The church was designed by Pietro Bianchi and the portico, with 6 columns and 2 Ionic pillars, by Leopoldo Laperuta. Long curved colonnades flank the building. Naples is the second largest city in Italy and has been settled since the 2nd millennium BC. The historic city centre is the largest in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of satyr statues in the grotto, a large artificial cave with fountain, in the garden of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. This grotto is in the Giardini di Sotto or lower gardens and was designed by da Vignola as a cool and quiet place to relax, which has been a tradition in Italy since Roman times. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of satyr statue in the grotto, a large artificial cave with fountain, in the garden of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. This grotto is in the Giardini di Sotto or lower gardens and was designed by da Vignola as a cool and quiet place to relax, which has been a tradition in Italy since Roman times. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Detail of satyr statues in the grotto, a large artificial cave with fountain, in the garden of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. This grotto is in the Giardini di Sotto or lower gardens and was designed by da Vignola as a cool and quiet place to relax, which has been a tradition in Italy since Roman times. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II, or Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, floodlit at  night, Rome, Italy. Designed in 1885 by Giuseppe Sacconi, 1854-1905, inaugurated 1911 and completed 1935. The monument is built on the Capitoline Hill and commemorates Vittorio Emanuele II,1820-78, the first King of a united Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, or Church of St Peter and St Paul, 13th century, at the Sasso Caveoso, Sassi di Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi originated in a prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gilded leather with coat of arms and putti, made in central Italy, 16th century, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Group of farmers horseback demonstrating against the government, in Sicily, Italy, black and white photograph dating to just after the Second World War, from the exhibition No Mafia Memorial, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. In the 1940s there were widespread peasant protests in Sicily with farmers fighting for land and social justice. The No Mafia Memorial explores the growth and history of the mafia, and its impact on the Sicilian population and its poverty. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Female geometric figure in marble, early Chalcolithic period, 4th millennium BC, from Turriga, Sardinia, Italy, from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, in the Idols exhibition, Sept 2018-Jan 2019, exploring 3-dimensional images of the human body created 4000–2000 BC, at the Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, Venice, Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Industrial area with ovens for vase production and the tanning and dyeing of fabrics, 8th century BC, in Mozia, a Phoenician island city, Trapani, Sicily, Italy. Mozia was a busy city due to its proximity to Africa and its location on commercial routes to Spain, Sardinia and Central Italy. It was founded in the 8th century BC by the Phoenicians, and remained an important city and Carthaginian trade outpost, thriving until it was overthrown by the Syracuse Greeks in 397 BC. In 1888 the island was rediscovered by Joseph Whitaker, who, through his Fondazione Giuseppe Whitaker, excavated the site and founded the island's museum. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grotto, a large artificial cave with fountain, embellished with statues of satyrs, in the garden of the Villa Farnese or Villa Caprarola, a 16th century Renaissance and Mannerist fortified villa designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and built 1559-73 for the Farnese family under Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, in Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. This grotto is in the Giardini di Sotto or lower gardens and was designed by da Vignola as a cool and quiet place to relax, which has been a tradition in Italy since Roman times. The Villa Farnese is now owned by the state and run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Monumento Vittorio Emanuele II, or Monument to Victor Emmanuel II, floodlit in the evening, Rome, Italy. Designed in 1885 by Giuseppe Sacconi, 1854-1905, inaugurated 1911 and completed 1935. The monument is built on the Capitoline Hill and commemorates Vittorio Emanuele II, 1820-78, the first King of a united Italy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sassi di Matera, the old part of town built on original prehistoric troglodyte dwellings, at Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The Sassi are thought to be the oldest human settlement in Italy, dating back to 7000 BC. The 52m bell tower of Matera Cathedral, built 1268ñ70, dominates the skyline. Matera is known as la Citta Sotterranea or the Subterranean City, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Interior of the Chiesa di Sant'Antonio, or Church of St Anthony, built 1926 with trullo style conical roofs made from dry limestone with no mortar, by one of the last trullist masters, in Alberobello, Bari, Puglia, Southern Italy. The nave is of whitewashed limestone, with a statue of Christ on the cross and colourful mural behind the altar. The church sits on the Rione Monti hill and was built to halt the advance of Protestant proselytising. The area was first settled in the 16th century, and the feudal lord, Count Acquaviva, encouraged his peasants to build trulli to avoid taxes. Alberobello is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen<br />
alberobello, province de Bari, Pouilles, Italie, Patrimoine Mondial Unesco
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  • Small theatre in Neoclassical style, built early 19th century by Alessandro Sanquirico, who decorated the Scala in Milan, used for puppet shows and opened for the visit of Charles Albert of Savoy, in the Palazzo Borromeo, on Isola Madre, the largest of the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The palace was built in the 16th century for the Borromeo family, designed by Pellegrino Pellegrini or Il Tibaldi. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Small theatre in Neoclassical style, built early 19th century by Alessandro Sanquirico, who decorated the Scala in Milan, used for puppet shows and opened for the visit of Charles Albert of Savoy, in the Palazzo Borromeo, on Isola Madre, the largest of the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The palace was built in the 16th century for the Borromeo family, designed by Pellegrino Pellegrini or Il Tibaldi. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stucco decoration in the Fifth Grotto of the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Comical mask stucco decoration, in the Fifth Grotto of the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marble bust of Gilberto V Borromeo wearing the Golden Fleece, in the Fifth Grotto of the Apartment of Grottoes, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The grottoes form a summer apartment for Vitaliano VI Borromeo, built 1689-1769 by Filippo Cagnola and Giulio Galliori. The walls and vaults of the 6 rooms are encrusted with stones, tufa, lava, coal, mica and marble, encased in stucco decorations of shells, nymphs, sirens, dolphins, fish and turtles. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Leopard in a river and wild animals, detail, tapestry in the Tapestry Gallery, designed 1677 by Andrea Biffi, since 1886 housing a series of Flemish tapestries c. 1565, made by the workshop of Pieter Coecke van Aalst in Brussels, from cartoons by Michael Coxie and Willen Tons, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The tapestries are theological, with animals illustrating evil, sin and redemption. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Italianate gardens, Teatro Massimo and box hedge mazes on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The island houses the Palazzo Borromeo, begun 1632, designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. The gardens were completed 1671 by Carlo IV Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Teatro Massimo, with sculptures, obelisks and a unicorn statue, in the Italianate gardens on Isola Bella, aerial view, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The island houses the Palazzo Borromeo, begun 1632, designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. The gardens were completed 1671 by Carlo IV Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Annunciation, Renaissance fresco, 1442-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, on the first floor of the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apostles, including Judas with a black halo, detail from Last Supper: Communion of the Apostles, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 35, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Baby Jesus, detail from Nativity, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 5, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The baby Jesus lies on straw in a stable, with Mary, Joseph, St Catherine of Alexandria and St Peter Martyr. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Coronation of the Virgin, detail, Renaissance fresco, 1440-41, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 9, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Christ in heaven crowns the Virgin, both robed in white. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Dominic in thought, detail from Mocking of Christ, with the Virgin and St Dominic, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 7, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Christ is blindfolded and crowned with thorns, and jeering soldiers appear as disembodied hands, a spitting head, cap raised in sarcasm, a hand and beating stick. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mocking of Christ, with the Virgin and St Dominic, detail, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, in Cell 7, in the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Christ is blindfolded and crowned with thorns, and jeering soldiers appear as disembodied hands, a spitting head, cap raised in sarcasm, a hand and beating stick. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Angel Gabriel, detail from the Annunciation, Renaissance fresco, 1442-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, on the first floor of the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Angel Gabriel, detail from the Annunciation, Renaissance fresco, 1442-43, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, on the first floor of the Dominican Convent of St Mark, now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The original convent was rebuilt 1437-52 for Cosimo I de Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 1396-1472, in Renaissance style. The interior walls were painted 1439-44 with frescoes by Fra Angelico and his assistants. The convent is part of the Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Francesco I de Medici, 1541-87, second Grand Duke of Tuscany, 17th century painting by Florentine artist, in the Main Room on the first floor, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Chapel, with Virgin and child painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1431-1506, and the Altarpiece of the Most Precious Blood, Madonna and Child with Saints John the Evangelist and Andrew of Padua, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Ferdinando I de Medici, 1549-1606, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1587, in the style of Pourbus, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Don Pietro de Medici, 1554–1604, youngest son of Cosimo I de Medici, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sacred Conversation, or The Medici as Holy Family, Mannerist painting, detail, 1575, by Giovanni Maria Butteri, 1540–1606, with portraits of Cosimo I de Medici's family, in the Sala Isabella, bedroom of Isabella de Medici, who was killed in the villa in 1576, in the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti, Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi, built 1555-75 for Cosimo I de Medici as a hunting lodge, in the village of Cerreto Guidi, Tuscany, Italy. The architects who remodelled the building in the 16th century were Bernardo Buontalenti (who designed the ramps and steps known as Medici bridges or scalee medicee), Davide Fortuni and Alfonso Parigi. The villa was owned by the Medicis until the 18th century when passed to the Habsburg-Lorraines. It is now a museum, the Museo Storico della Caccia e del Territorio, or Museum of Hunting and Territory, and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Scene from the exploits of Godfrey of Bouillon at the capture of Jerusalem, fresco, 1589-94, by Cosimo Daddi, 1575-1630, in the inner courtyard at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The frescoes were commissioned by Cristina of Loren, wife of Ferdinando I de Medici. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Red Dining Room or Tapestry Room, used for formal banquets for the Savoy Monarchy, with neoclassical furniture, crystal chandeliers and 17th century Flemish tapestries, at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The Italian garden was designed by Il Tribolo, 1500-50. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grotto style water fountain with water spout in a bacchic head, in the Italian garden designed by Il Tribolo, 1500-50, at the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Virtue, fresco, detail, by Alessandro Allori, 1535-1607, above a door in the Sala di Leone X, in the Villa di Poggio a Caiano, a Medici Villa built from 1480 in Renaissance style by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1443-1516, for Lorenzo de Medici, in Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. The hall was designed by Sangallo in 1485 and is painted with frescoes by Pontormo, Allori, Andrea del Sarto and Franciabigio exalting the glory of the Medici dynasty. The villa was begun 1480-95 and completed 1513-20 under Giovanni de Medici by Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini and Franciabigio. The museum now houses 2 museums, the Museo della Natura Morta or Still Life Museum, and the Historic Apartments. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sala di Leone X, designed by Sangallo in 1485 and is painted with frescoes by Pontormo, Allori, Andrea del Sarto and Franciabigio exalting the glory of the Medici dynasty, in the Villa di Poggio a Caiano, a Medici Villa built from 1480 in Renaissance style by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1443-1516, for Lorenzo de Medici, in Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Frescoes over doors and windows represent Virtues, Vertumnus and Pomona and are by Pontormo. The barrel vault coffered stucco ceiling contains Medicean emblems. The villa was begun 1480-95 and completed 1513-20 under Giovanni de Medici by Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini and Franciabigio. The museum now houses 2 museums, the Museo della Natura Morta or Still Life Museum, and the Historic Apartments. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Villa di Poggio a Caiano, aerial view, a Medici Villa built from 1480 in Renaissance style by Giuliano da Sangallo, 1443-1516, for Lorenzo de Medici, in Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. The villa was begun 1480-95 and completed 1513-20 under Giovanni de Medici by Andrea di Cosimo Feltrini and Franciabigio. The museum now houses 2 museums, the Museo della Natura Morta or Still Life Museum, and the Historic Apartments. It forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • St Damian (left) and St Cosmas (centre), protectors of the Medici family and patrons of the convent, and St Lawrence (right), patron of Lorenzo de Medici, detail from Crucifixion with Saints, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, from the North tympanum opposite the chapter house entrance in the Convento San Marco, now the Museo di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting depicts the crucifixion of Jesus and the 2 thieves, with saints in mourning, and beneath, medallion portraits of Dominican saints, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Angelico's assistant. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Mary of Clopas and St John flanking the Virgin Mary, with Mary Magdalene supporting her seen from behind, detail from Crucifixion with Saints, Renaissance fresco, 1441-42, by Fra Angelico, 1395-1455, from the North tympanum opposite the chapter house entrance in the Convento San Marco, now the Museo di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The painting depicts the crucifixion of Jesus and the 2 thieves, with saints in mourning, and beneath, medallion portraits of Dominican saints, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, Fra Angelico's assistant. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Apostle John, from the Transfiguration of Christ, detail, Renaissance fresco, 1437-45, by Fra Angelico, 1387-1455, in the convent of the Basilica di San Marco, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The fresco depicts Christ with outstretched arms and the apostles Peter, James and John at his feet, flanked by the Virgin Mary and St Dominic, with the heads of Elijah and Moses. The fresco is painted in cell no. 6, a monk's cell, to encourage private devotion. The convent is now the Museo Nazionale di San Marco, and was home to Fra Angelico, who was a Dominican monk and prior and who decorated the chapter house, cloister and first floor cells. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Blue Room, at the Palazzo Conte Federico, a 12th century Arabic Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The Federico counts bought the palace in the mid 17th century and are responsible for commissioning many of the decorations in place today. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Aragonese window, 14th century, in the Arabic Norman tower, or Torre di Scrigno, 12th century, the oldest part of the building, built on top of the Punic ancient city walls to defend the city, at the Palazzo Conte Federico, a 12th century Arabic Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Surrounding the window are carved the coats of arms of the city of Palermo, the Swabians and the Aragonese. The Federico counts bought the palace in the mid 17th century and are responsible for commissioning many of the decorations in place today. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Double arched Norman window on the Arabic Norman tower, or Torre di Scrigno, 12th century, the oldest part of the building, built on top of the Punic ancient city walls to defend the city, at the Palazzo Conte Federico, a 12th century Arabic Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The Federico counts bought the palace in the mid 17th century and are responsible for commissioning many of the decorations in place today. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Stanza Marvuglia, bedroom with gold walls and painted ceiling, decorated in Neoclassical style by the Sicilian architect Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia, 1729-1814, at the Palazzo Conte Federico, a 12th century Arabic Norman palace in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The Federico counts bought the palace in the mid 17th century and are responsible for commissioning many of the decorations in place today. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Madonna in trono tra Angeli e Santi, or Virgin enthroned with angels and saints, detail, by Tomaso di Vigilla, 1460-1494, from the Capella dell’Ordine dei Teutonici di Risalaimi, Marineo, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Display of religious art, including paintings and crucifixes, in a first floor room of the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Internal courtyard or atrium with 2 storey arcade, seen through an archway, at the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery and since 1954 has housed the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Corpses having been struck by Death's arrows, detail from Il Trionfo della Morte, or The Triumph of Death, late Gothic fresco, c. 1446, by an unknown artist, possibly catalan or provencal, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The fresco was originally in the Palazzo Sclafani and was commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples. It depicts a garden with Death as a skeleton riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows and killing people from all walks of life. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Il Trionfo della Morte, or The Triumph of Death, late Gothic fresco, c. 1446, by an unknown artist, possibly catalan or provencal, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The fresco was originally in the Palazzo Sclafani and was commissioned by the Aragonese Kings of Naples. It depicts a garden with Death as a skeleton riding a skeletal horse, firing arrows and killing people from all walks of life. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Eleanor of Aragon, Renaissance marble bust, 1468, by Francesco Laurana, 1458-1502, from the Monastero di Santa Maria del Bosco, in the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, or Gallery of Art for the Sicilian region, in the Palazzo Abatellis, designed by Matteo Carnelivari in Gothic-Catalan style, 15th century, on the Via Alloro in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The palace was originally the home of Francesco Abatellis, port master of the Kingdom of Sicily, subsequently became a monastery before opening as a museum in 1954. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Salone d'ingresso or entrance hall, with furniture designed by Ernesto Basile, displays of livery and palanquins, and coat of arms inland in the floor, in the Palazzo Francavilla, built in 1783 for Ignazio Barone, and then bought in 1801 by Saverio Oneto and Gravina Duca di Sperlinga, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Ernesto Basile worked on the interiors and the mansion is filled with 18th century works of art. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Room in the Palazzo Francavilla, built in 1783 for Ignazio Barone, and then bought in 1801 by Saverio Oneto and Gravina Duca di Sperlinga, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Ernesto Basile worked on the interiors and the mansion is filled with 18th century works of art. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Majorcan Library designed by Ernesto Basile, in the Palazzo Francavilla, built in 1783 for Ignazio Barone, and then bought in 1801 by Saverio Oneto and Gravina Duca di Sperlinga, in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. More than half the books in the collection are Sicilian, from library of Vincenzo Mortillaro. Ernesto Basile worked on the interiors and the mansion is filled with 18th century works of art. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Top of the staircase leading from the internal courtyard to the main entrance, with marble sculptures by Ignazio Marabitti, 1719-97, in the Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, commissioned by the prince and princess of Gangi, Pietro and Marianna Valguarnera, and built 1749-59, on the Piazza Croce dei Vespri in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The mansion was decorated in Sicilian Baroque style by Marianna Valguarnera and later in Neoclassical stye, with great opulence throughout. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi, commissioned by the prince and princess of Gangi, Pietro and Marianna Valguarnera, and built 1749-59, on the Piazza Croce dei Vespri in the Kalsa district of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The mansion was decorated in Sicilian Baroque style by Marianna Valguarnera and later in Neoclassical stye, with great opulence throughout. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Abraham welcomes the three angels at the Oak of Mamre, mosaic, 1140-70, on the South wall of the nave, in the Palatine Chapel or Cappella Palatina, the royal chapel of the Norman Palace in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The chapel was built for Roger II of Sicily in 1132 and consecrated in 1143, and is decorated with Byzantine mosaics. It has a sanctuary dedicated to St Peter and muqarnas in the nave ceiling, being a marriage of Norman, Byzantine and Islamic Fatimid architectural styles. The chapel is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Greek Theatre, built 3rd century BC, in Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy. Although originally and typically Greek, used for theatre and music performances, the theatre was remodelled in the 2nd century AD by the Romans and used for games and gladiatorial contests. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Greek Theatre, built 3rd century BC, in Taormina, Messina, Sicily, Italy. Although originally and typically Greek, used for theatre and music performances, the theatre was remodelled in the 2nd century AD by the Romans and used for games and gladiatorial contests. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Ponte Vecchio, or Old Bridge, over the river Arno, a medieval stone bridge of shops built 1345, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Michelangelo Buonarotti, bronze head, by Daniele da Voltera, in the Camera degli Angioli, in Casa Buonarotti, the 17th century palace home of the Buonarotti family, on Via Ghibellina in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The building is now a museum dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Buonarotti. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Paolo Masgagni, 1755-1815, Italian physician, on the facade of the Galleria degli Uffizi, or Uffizi Gallery, an art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The Uffizi building was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici and completed by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1581. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • L'Inclinazione, by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1597-1651, Baroque painting on the ceiling of the Galleria, designed by Michelangelo the Younger, in Casa Buonarotti, the 17th century palace home of the Buonarotti family, on Via Ghibellina in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The building is now a museum dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Buonarotti. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Deposition painting from the tomb of Michelangelo Buonarotti, 1475-1564, designed by Giorgio Vasari and built 1564-74, in the Basilica di Santa Croce, or Basilica of the Holy Cross, built 1294-1385, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Statue of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519, in a niche in the Piazale Degli Uffizi of the Galleria degli Uffizi, or Uffizi Gallery, an art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The Uffizi building was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici and completed by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1581. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pitti Tondo, 1503-4, detail, marble Renaissance bas-relief of the Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist by Michelangelo, 1475-1564, in the lower sculpture room of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The Bargello was originally a 13th century barracks and prison and opened as a museum in 1865. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Orpheus statue, by Baccio Bandinelli, in the inner courtyard of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, a Renaissance palace designed by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de Medici and built 1444-84, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The courtyard is surrounded by a Corinthian arcade. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Palazzo Vecchio, or Old Palace, the town hall of Florence, built from 1299 by  Arnolfo di Cambio, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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