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12/05/2013 | Monza - Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

Top Things To See

Top Things To See: • Be fascinated by Rome’s historical sites – the Colosseum (website: www.archeorm.arti.beniculturali.it), the Forum and the Pantheon. The elegant shopping streets include ViaCondotti which leads to PiazzadiSpagna (the Spanish Steps). At the TreviFountain, visitors guarantee their return to Rome by throwing a coin into the waters.

• Enter the VaticanCity (website: www.vatican.va), an independent sovereign state best known for the magnificent StPeter’sBasilica. Among the principal features of the Vatican Palace (the Pope’s residence) are the SistineChapel and the VaticanMuseum.

• Explore Venice(Venezia), a work of art in itself. StMark’sBasilica (website: www.basilicasanmarco.it) and the Doge’sPalace (website: www.museiciviciveneziani.it), overlooking StMark’sSquare, have gained fame through Canaletto paintings. Fine gothic and Renaissance palazzi (buildings) line the GrandCanal. The Galleriadell’Accademia (website: www.gallerieaccademia.org) displays hundreds of Venetian paintings.

• Discover Turin, LaParigid’Italia (the Italian Paris). Its EgyptianMuseum (website: www.museoegizio.org) is the second-largest in the world after Cairo. The city’s symbol is the MoleAntonelliana, housing the MuseumofCinema (website: www.museonazionaledelcinema.org). A copy of the famous TurinShroud (www.sindone.org) may be viewed in the cathedral.

• In Milan(Milano), appreciate Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, TheLastSupper, which may be viewed at the convent of SantaMariadelleGrazie (website: www.santamariadellegrazie.it). LaScala (website: www.teatroallascala.org) remains the undisputed world capital of opera.

• Visit Genoa(Genova), the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. The GalleriadiPalazzoBianco (website: www.museopalazzobianco.it) has an exceptional collection of paintings by Genoese artists.

• Soak up the romance of Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s RomeoandJuliet. The CasadiGiulietta (Juliet’s House) attracts thousands of visitors each year. The RomanArena, built in AD290, is the site of an annual opera festival.

• Discover early Byzantine and Christian monuments decorated with stunning mosaics in Ravenna (website: www.turismo.ravenna.it), including the splendid MausoleumofGallaPlacidia, a UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site.

• Visit Florence(Firenze) and see Brunelleschi’s revolutionary design for the Duomo (cathedral, website: www.duomofirenze.it). Walk across the medieval shop-lined PonteVecchio bridge or see the impressive art collections of the UffiziGallery (website: www.firenzemusei.it). Michelangelo’s famous statue of David may be viewed at the Galleriadell’Accademia.

• Take a picture of the famous LeaningTower (website: http://torre.duomo.pisa.it), a free-standing campanile or bell tower in Pisa.

• Visit the place where pizza was invented, Naples (website: www.inaples.it). The impressive MuseoArcheologicoNazionale houses an excellent collection of Greco-Roman artefacts, including mosaics from Pompeii.

• Understand how first-century Romans lived their daily lives at the remains of Pompeii (website: www.pompeiisites.org) and Herculaneum, engulfed in the great eruption of AD79.

• Visit the BasilicadiSanFrancesco in Assisi, the birthplace of St Francis, founder of the Franciscan order of monks.

• Stand in the stunning PiazzadelCampo in Siena, the shell-shaped heart of this walled medieval city in southern Tuscany.

• Sail to Sicily, littered with the remains of successive invading cultures. The most important ancient Greek sites include the temples of the ValledeiTempli at Agrigénto, said to be better preserved than any in Greece itself. The catacombs at the CapuchinMonastery contain thousands of mummified bodies.

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