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21. Pinacoteca di Brera
Milan's main picture gallery in the Palazzo di Brera, with Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio and Hayez's The Kiss.
View details — Pinacoteca di BreraLandmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
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Milan's main picture gallery in the Palazzo di Brera, with Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio and Hayez's The Kiss.
View details — Pinacoteca di BreraAttraction
Florence's medieval bridge over the Arno, rebuilt in 1345, lined with jewellers' shops and crossed above by the Medici's Vasari Corridor.
View details — Ponte VecchioAttraction
The oldest crossing of the Grand Canal, a single-span stone arch completed in 1591 to a design by Antonio da Ponte, lined with shops on both ramps.
View details — Rialto BridgeAttraction
The drained valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills, the Roman Forum was the centre of public life in ancient Rome for more than a thousand years.
View details — Roman Forum and Palatine HillAttraction
Former residence of the Spanish viceroys and Bourbon kings on Piazza del Plebiscito, with a grand staircase, royal apartments and a court theatre.
View details — Royal Palace of Naples (Palazzo Reale)Attraction
Medieval castle facing Piazza Municipio, with a Renaissance triumphal arch, the vaulted Sala dei Baroni, a palatine chapel and the civic art museum.
View details — Castel Nuovo (Maschio Angioino)Attraction
The vast Oltrarno palace of the Medici grand dukes, housing the Palatine Gallery, Royal Apartments, Gallery of Modern Art, Treasury and Museum of Fashion.
View details — Palazzo PittiAttraction
The 98.6-metre bell tower of St Mark's, rebuilt after its collapse in 1902, with a lift to the belfry and wide views over Venice and the lagoon.
View details — St Mark’s CampanileAttraction
Milan's opera house, opened in 1778, where Verdi and Puccini premiered major works; its museum offers views into the gilded auditorium.
View details — Teatro alla Scala and La Scala MuseumAttraction
Nicola Salvi's Baroque fountain, completed in 1762, is Rome's most famous; since February 2026 non-residents pay a small fee to reach the basin.
View details — Trevi FountainAttraction
The great Franciscan Gothic church of San Polo, consecrated in 1492, home to Titian's Assumption, his Pesaro Madonna, his tomb and Canova's pyramid monument.
View details — Basilica dei FrariAttraction
Milan's oldest major church, founded by Saint Ambrose in the 4th century and rebuilt in Lombard Romanesque style, with a golden altar and his tomb.
View details — Basilica of Sant’AmbrogioAttraction
The Medici's terraced Renaissance garden behind the Palazzo Pitti, with grottoes, fountains, statues and views across the rooftops of Florence.
View details — Boboli GardensAttraction
Former Carthusian monastery on the Vomero hill with a lavish baroque church, a great cloister, a famous nativity collection and sweeping views over the bay.
View details — Certosa e Museo di San MartinoAttraction
Cardinal Scipione Borghese's villa holds Bernini's greatest marble sculptures, a room of Caravaggio paintings and Canova's reclining Pauline Borghese.
View details — Galleria BorgheseAttraction
The great Franciscan church of Florence, with Giotto's frescoes, Brunelleschi's Pazzi Chapel and the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo and Machiavelli.
View details — Basilica di Santa CroceAttraction
Dating to Pope Sixtus IV's gift of ancient bronzes in 1471, the Capitoline Museums fill Michelangelo's piazza on the Capitoline Hill with Rome's own treasures.
View details — Capitoline MuseumsAttraction
Fourteenth-century Franciscan complex on Spaccanapoli, famous for its cloister of hand-painted majolica tiles, with a museum and Roman baths beside it.
View details — Monastero di Santa ChiaraAttraction
A vast 19th-century cemetery designed by Carlo Maciachini, filled with sculpted family tombs and the Famedio, resting place of Alessandro Manzoni.
View details — Monumental Cemetery of Milan (Cimitero Monumentale)Attraction
A Renaissance confraternity house in San Polo whose halls are covered with Tintoretto's paintings of the Old and New Testaments, produced between 1564 and 1587.
View details — Scuola Grande di San Rocco