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1. Colosseum
The Flavian Amphitheatre, completed in AD 80 under Titus, is Rome's defining ancient monument and the centrepiece of the Parco archeologico del Colosseo.
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2. Milan Cathedral (Duomo di Milano)
Milan's Gothic cathedral, begun in 1386 and finished only in the 20th century, with marble spires, a gilded Madonnina and walkable rooftop terraces.
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3. National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN)
One of the world's great archaeological museums, holding the Farnese sculptures and the mosaics, frescoes and objects excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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4. St Mark’s Basilica
Venice's cathedral on Piazza San Marco, a Byzantine-influenced church consecrated in 1094 with gold-ground mosaics, the Pala d'Oro altarpiece and the original bronze horses.
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5. Uffizi Gallery
Florence's great picture gallery, built by Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici, with Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio.
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6. Cappella Sansevero
Small baroque chapel in the historic centre, famous for Giuseppe Sanmartino's marble Veiled Christ and the mysterious anatomical machines in its basement.
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7. Doge’s Palace
The Gothic seat of the Venetian Republic's government, with the Great Council Chamber, Tintoretto's Paradise, the old prisons and the walk across the Bridge of Sighs.
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8. Florence Cathedral (Duomo) and Brunelleschi’s Dome
Santa Maria del Fiore, with Brunelleschi's 15th-century brick dome, Giotto's bell tower and the Baptistery, the religious heart of Florence.
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9. The Last Supper (Cenacolo Vinciano)
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, painted around 1495 to 1498 on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie and seen in short timed visits.
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10. Vatican Museums
Founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century, the Vatican Museums hold the papal collections, the Raphael Rooms and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
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11. Galleria dell’Accademia
The museum built around Michelangelo's David, displayed here since 1873, with his unfinished Prisoners, Florentine paintings and a musical instrument collection.
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12. Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
Italy's oldest active shopping arcade, a glass-roofed 19th-century gallery linking Piazza del Duomo and Piazza della Scala.
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13. Gallerie dell’Accademia
Venice's great collection of Venetian painting from the 14th to 18th centuries, with works by Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and Carpaccio.
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14. Naples Cathedral (Duomo di San Gennaro)
Gothic cathedral of Naples, home of the Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro, the early Christian basilica of Santa Restituta and an ancient baptistery.
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15. St Peter’s Basilica
Rebuilt between 1506 and 1626 to designs by Bramante, Michelangelo and Maderno, St Peter's is the vast papal basilica at the heart of Vatican City.
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16. Castello Sforzesco
The Sforza dukes' brick fortress, rebuilt from 1450, now home to civic museums including Michelangelo's last sculpture, the Rondanini Pietà.
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17. Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Bourbon royal palace on a hill above the city, now a major art museum with Titian, Caravaggio and Parmigianino, set in a vast historic park.
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18. Palazzo Vecchio
Florence's town hall since the Middle Ages, with Vasari's Hall of the Five Hundred, Medici apartments, a secret-room tour and a climbable 94-metre tower.
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19. Pantheon
Rebuilt under Hadrian around AD 126, the Pantheon still has the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and has served as a church since 609.
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20. Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Peggy Guggenheim's former Grand Canal home, now a museum of 20th-century art with works by Picasso, Pollock, Magritte, Dalí, Kandinsky and Brâncuși.
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