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Rome wasn't built in a day but over thousands of years. Here's how long it took to build some of the Eternal City's most famous attractions.
Italy boasts 59 World Heritage sites and holds the record for the most UNESCO heritage sites in the world.
Before you plan your trip to Italy, take a moment to learn more about Italy's cities and regions.
Italy's Largest Cities and Map
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July is the time for music, and there are tons of festivals throughout Italy this month to keep all kinds of music lovers happy. Some of the best ...
With spring in full swing, April starts to gets busy with outdoor events, parades, and festivals. Easter usually falls during this month and ...
February is frigid in most parts of Italy, but is not without its festivities. There's Valentine's Day and Carnevale, and many Italian schools ...
Michelangelo Buonarotti is most associated with Rome because of his masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel. But his work is all over the capital and it ...
Italians celebrate the Christmas season through January 6, the Epiphany. So January begins with much fanfare, including New Years Day and Epiphany ...
Bomarzo's Parco dei Mostri is a park filled with fantastical sculptures of animals, monsters, and other beasts. It's an ideal day trip from Rome.
Rome is often called an outdoor museum. But the capital also has dozens of museums to explore, not only in the Centro Storico but beyond the walls.
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Get to know the Milano Duomo, the most famous landmark in Milan.
While hundreds wait in lines in the harsh sun to get into Saint Peter's, the Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, also known as the Cathedral ...
Roman hoteliers, who write that Rome's 25 million annual tourists is only a quarter of the number that go to London, are less concerned about how ...
It all started with David.
Michelangelo's statue of David was one of the first pieces of sculpture that I knew I had to see in ...
Each day, as many as 20,000 visitors pay up to €16 per person to enter the Vatican Museums, the highlight of which is the Sistine Chapel. This ...
Rome boutique hotels—here are six exceptional places to stay on your Roman holiday.
Excerpts from the Art Issue of the New York Review of Books. Reviews on Veronese, Piero della Francesca, and Futurism. There's also a Michelangelo ...
Rome is a city of many hills. But the seven hills of Rome are the original hills on which the ancient city was founded.
