Category: Italy
Parma: Santa Maria della Steccata
Parma: San Giovanni Evangelista
Parma: The Baptistery
The beautiful Baptistery of Parma occupies the south side of the Piazza del Duomo. The building, clad in pink marble from Verona, is a mix of Romanesque and Gothic architecture. The lower part has the well-known Romanesque rounded arches and Romanesque sculptures, but higher up these rounded arches have already…
Parma: The Duomo
Vicenza: Teatro Olimpico
Vicenza’s Teatro Olimpico can be counted among the most famous creations of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Palladio designed the theatre, but died before it could be completed. It is therefore only fair to see the theatre as a work by his student Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) as well. Scamozzi not…
Modena: Galleria Estense
Modena: Santa Maria della Pomposa
Modena: Musei del Duomo
Modena: The Duomo
Umbria: Bevagna
Bologna: Le due Torri
Bologna: San Petronio
Bologna: Santa Maria dei Servi
Bologna: San Giacomo Maggiore
Bologna: Santo Stefano
The complesso di Santo Stefano is a very special complex of churches, chapels, a courtyard and a cloister. Although the complex adjoins the Piazza Santo Stefano and a street named the Via Santo Stefano runs alongside the buildings towards the Porta Santo Stefano, the complex rather surprisingly does not have…
Bologna: The cathedral of San Pietro
I have many travel guides about Italy. Almost all of them contain information about Bologna, but remarkably not a single one of them discusses the cathedral of the city. Apparently the Duomo of Bologna is fairly unknown and frequently skipped by tourists, which may have contributed to the common misconception…