The knight Galgano Guidotti after a libertine youth, gave up his titles and possessions to hermitage in the Sienese countryside , in a place now called Cappella di San Galgano Montesiepi ; in the nearby plain, a Cistercian abbey was built twenty years after his death in 1201 to honor him. It was long prosperous […]
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The Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily includes the “Archaeological Park Valley of the Temples” (Valle dei Templi in Italian) and other remains located on the Acropolis and in various places of the city. It was inserted in 1998 by UNESCO in the list of World Heritage. On a rocky outcrop that delimits the south of […]
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The Palace of the Normans is also called the “Royal Palace of Palermo” (Palazzo dei Normanni in Italian). Built from the ninth century to host the Arab emirs , it was enlarged by the Normans on their arrival in Palermo. Like the majority of monuments in Palermo, we discover the influences of different cultures that […]
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Pretoria fountain (Fontan was built in 1554 by Francesco Camilliani in Florence in 1581 , but was moved to Piazza Pretoria in Palermo .
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Facing the beach La Pelosa stands the homonym tower. Proudly exposing his Aragonese architecture of the sixteenth century, it is one of the most ancient watchtowers of Sardinia.
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