The Duomo di San Lorenzo Cathedral in Genoa was consecrated by Pope Gelasius II in 1118 and is dedicated to the archdeacon of the Church of Rome, martyred in 258 on the Via Tiburtina. The alternating gray and white on the front, a process quite common in Liguria, supports the massiveness of the set and […]
The system of the Palaces of Rolli (Italian: Sistema di Palazzi dei Rolli di Genova) is a legally established public housing system for distinguished guests welcomed by the Republic of Genoa in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At that time, attended by many foreign visitors, Genoa was one of the greatest maritime powers of […]
Balzi Rossi is a name given to a beach (also known as ” the beach of the eggs “), a museum and a complex of caves in which they were discovered , since the second half of the nineteenth century , several finds of the Paleolithic era. The archaeological site is located near the hamlet […]
The Doria castle originally was a defensive building located on a rocky outcrop, about seventy meters high, in the coastal area south of Vernazza in the Cinque Terre, in the province of La Spezia. The Doria castle was built in the 15th century as a lookout tower to protect the village from pirates.
The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is an eighteenth-century monument, one of the most famous sights of Rome. Located in the heart of the city, near the Pantheon and Piazza di Spagna, the Trevi Fountain is the most famous fountain in Rome , and a place of passage ! The Trevi Fountain was designed by […]