Madonnna del Canneto
High in the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, near the headwaters of the Melfa river, stands the Santuario di Maria SS.ma di Canneto. The site has a layered …
126 documented Byzantine sites across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
High in the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, near the headwaters of the Melfa river, stands the Santuario di Maria SS.ma di Canneto. The site has a layered …
The Chiesa dei SS. Pietro e Paolo is a composite structure, a palimpsest of building phases rather than a single, pure statement. Its rectangular, thr…
The Basilica of Santa Maria del Lauro, a church in Meta, began its life as a parish seat in 1536, though its origins stretch further back into the Byz…
High on a crumbling rock, the medieval borgo of Papasidero was born of spontaneous genesis in the early Middle Ages. Its defensive logic remains legib…
The Chiesa di San Leone is a Byzantine church built on a basilica plan, with three aisles divided by columns. Inside, it measures 33 metres long and 2…
Saracena, once known as Saracina, is a Byzantine-era borgo perched high on a Calabrian ridge, a spontaneous, defensive settlement that grew from the r…
On a low hill at 263 metres, looking out over the valleys of the Agri and Sinni, the Santuario Basilica Maria Santissima di Anglona is the sole surviv…
At the foot of Monte Maggiore, this church was built on a spot where, during the Republic of Amalfi, official proclamations were issued. The name ‘Ban…
Santa Maria Assunta is a Byzantine church, oriented eastward in the traditional manner. Its plan is a sober three-nave arrangement, each aisle divided…
The Santuario di Santa Maria di Mezzogiorno stands on the southern edge of an old town, in the rione Pianicello. Originally named ‘S. Maria de Meridie…
Carpanzano perches on one of the narrow ridges above the Savuto river valley, following the spine of the hill east to west. The river carves the entir…
A few kilometres from Cassano, the Santuario Diocesano della Madonna della Catena occupies a valley floor where the River Eiano runs, at the foot of a…
On a spur of Monte Vulture, the Abbey of San Michele overlooks the Lago Piccolo di Monticchio, a landscape of striking natural drama. The church is bu…
High on the Aspromonte plateau, the Santuario Diocesano San Nicodemo stands where a Byzantine monk once lived and prayed with his brethren. This is th…
The sanctuary church, known as the Cappella Madonna del Cervato, stands in a remote mountain setting, its origins belonging to that long, layered hist…
This is a church that refuses to follow the rules. The Cappella Madonna della Losa, a Byzantine-era structure in Italy, presents a plan that runs nort…
In a clearing among olive groves and the woods of Fallà, in the province of Vibo Valentia, stands a small church dedicated to Santa Maria Mater Domini…
This is a church of Romanesque origin, though its bones tell a longer story. The three-aisled structure still shows its age in the traces of an old ap…
On the slopes of Monte Stella, nine kilometres from Pazzano, the hermitage-sanctuary of Maria Santissima della Stella overlooks the vast Stilaro valle…
A Byzantine church in Italy. It is one of many such structures that reflect the Eastern Roman Empire’s architectural and liturgical influence on the p…
The Santuario di Maria SS.ma di Monte Carmelo occupies a church that, by tradition, was built in the ninth century, alongside the settlement of Cetrar…
In the district of Pantano, within the parish of Santa Maria Maggiore at Pignola, stands a temple raised by the piety of the faithful and dedicated to…
On the heights above Camerota, this sanctuary dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunziata began as a work of the Italo-Greek monks from the nearby…
This sanctuary, on the north-western edge of Pozzuoli near the Solfatara, marks the spot where Saint Januarius was martyred during the Diocletian pers…
The old centre of Stilo sprawls across the contours of Monte Consolino, whose bulk looms above it. This was once a walled town, its defences perhaps l…
A Byzantine church in the region of Italy. It is a monastic foundation from that period, its architecture reflecting the eastern traditions of the tim…
This church faces the northern side of Piazza Fratelli Conazzi, separated from it by a slightly raised, railed churchyard. Its façade is divided into …
This is a Byzantine belt-set, a complex piece of martial or official regalia, broken into its constituent parts. The oval buckle, pointed at the tongu…
This is no ordinary jug. A Byzantine oinochoe, a wine vessel, assembled from the rarest of materials: an ostrich egg forms the body, its surface carve…
Gerace’s historic core is a tripartite affair, rising in distinct tiers from the low-lying Borgo Maggiore to the fortified Città Alta. The Borgo Maggi…
This church, dedicated to Santa Maria Odigitria, a title derived from the late Greek for 'she who leads the way', was inaugurated in 1933. It is the c…
Gioiosa Ionica’s historic centre is a study in two distinct halves, each telling a different chapter of its story. The older part, a classic Byzantine…
Centro collinare di antiche origini. Dalla zona dell'Acropoli, costituita da un bastione contornato in discesa da un dedalo di scalinate e stretti vic…
Above the Ionian coast, the abandoned village of Pentedattilo clings to a steep hillside, its name, from the Greek pentadáktylos, meaning ‘five finger…
A Byzantine fortress in Italy, known as the Castello di Malconsiglio. Its catacombe are underground burial chambers. Byzantine fortifications in Italy…
Taranto began on a small island, which the Greeks turned into an acropolis overlooking the eponymous gulf. From that original core, the city has spent…
Nicastro is one of the two historic nuclei that constitute Lamezia Terme’s old centre, a place with a name that echoes its Byzantine origins: Neocastr…
The Tumulo Etrusco del Molinello, near Asciano, is a chamber tomb cut into the living travertine, its entrance facing southeast. A long descending dro…
On the Garfagnana flank of the Apuane Alps, at 720 metres, Trassilico commands a long view across to Monte Forato and the Pania della Croce. This is a…
Gravina in Puglia, a historic centre in the province of Bari, resists neat classification. Its urban layout is an eclectic composite of districts, eac…
On the slopes of the Sila massif, the old centre of Spezzano della Sila follows the contours of the hillside, a spontaneous mountain borgo whose medie…
On a rock spur, following the contours of the land, San Giorgio Morgeto is a Byzantine-era borgo built over the ruins of far older Morgezia, a settlem…
The historic core of Bari is a warren of lanes and public spaces, a coastal port district whose character was set in the Byzantine centuries. Exposed …
On a rocky spur above the Tyrrhenian coast, Fiumefreddo Bruzio, originally Flumen Frigidum, the cold stream, clings to its medieval bones. This is a b…
A former Byzantine church in Italy, the ex-Chiesa di S. Giovanni stands as a remnant of its era. It is a structure typical of the Byzantine period in …
The Santuario Nostra Signora di Prestarona stands in a valley that takes its name from the Greek for dove: peristeròn. A 1507 parchment in the Gerace …
Ischia è una cittadina costiera insulare di origini molto antiche, la cui popolazione è dedita prevalentemente al turismo, al commercio e alle tradizi…
From above, the historic centre of Postiglione resolves into a tangle of alleys and houses clustering around a Norman castle that crowns the summit. B…
L’impianto urbanistico di Padula è quella di un centro che si sviluppa sulla cima del colle intorno alla chiesa madre. È l’impianto tipico di molti ce…
Polignano a Mare perches on the cliffs of the Adriatic, its historic centre a consolidated town shaped by natural and artificial boundaries. The old q…
The Gravina di San Marco is the deep ravine that splits Massafra’s historic centre in two: the ancient quarter known as ‘la terra’, a tangle of narrow…
Il centro storico, posto su uno sperone, è caratterizzato da viuzze e palazzi antichi quali Palazzo Dell'Agli, Palazzo Mennuni, Palazzo Bonifacio e Pa…
Zumpano’s historic centre strings along a hill crest, its linear plan dictated by a single through-road. The building stock is modest: simple one-room…
On a gentle coastal hill between Capo Trionto and Punta Alice, Cariati commands long views over the Ionian Sea. This is a Byzantine borgo, its medieva…
The territory of Castrovillari is a study in contrasts. To the south lies a fertile plain of advanced fruit farming and livestock; above it, a hill co…
Cirò, known historically as Ypsicron and originally as Krimisa, is a hilltop borgo in Calabria. Its medieval plan is characteristically irregular: a d…
On a steep ridge above the Ionian coast, Ardore Superiore is a spontaneous hilltop settlement whose medieval plan still dictates the shape of daily li…
The old centre of Rogliano, known historically as Rublanum until the tenth century and later as Rubilanum, strings along a narrow ridge in the Savuto …
The original core of Laureana di Borrello was probably inhabited from around the year 1000, a product of the thorough Byzantine Greek revival of south…
In a quiet corner of Italy, a Baroque chapel rises on flat ground, its plan an elegant ellipse. The entrance faces southeast, leading into a portico a…
A Byzantine monastery in Italy. It is a structure of the type built during the period of Eastern Roman influence in the region.…
This small hilltop settlement preserves a medieval street plan of narrow lanes and cobbled alleys opening onto tiny squares. The ordinary masonry buil…
Centro di pianura di impronta medievale. All’interno dell’insediamento storico è possibile ancora oggi individuare il nucleo antico, nella parte sud-o…
Atika Contursi Terme, Centro Storico The historic core of Contursi Terme, once simply Contursi, clings to a defensive hilltop in a layout that is es…
Albano di Lucania, known simply as Albano before 1863, is a Byzantine-era borgo that clings to its mountain ridge with a defensive posture learned fro…
In Tricarico, the historic centre declares its origins plainly in the urban layout. The Rabata quarter, of Islamic derivation, is a dense tangle: narr…
On the slopes above Cosenza, Dipignano is a small, polycentric medieval borgo of rural character. Its fabric is modest; few palazzetti interrupt the l…
The historic core of Cetraro, once known as Citrarium and documented as the Castrum Citrarii in 1097, is a linear, defensive Byzantine borgo. Its layo…
This is Nicastrello, a tiny borgo that grew not from the slow accretion of centuries, but from a single, deliberate act in 1630. A man named Giannanto…
On the spine of a Calabrian ridge, Monterosso Calabro’s historic centre is a Byzantine-era borgo built for defence. Its layout follows two principal a…
In the Cilento hinterland, the small hill town of Sacco is a place where time has settled like dust on an old ledger. Its historic core, of Byzantine …
Along the Amalfi coast, Cetara (once Citara) unspools from the sea into the hills along a single carreggiabile road: a linear, coastal borgo with root…
Capua is a fortress city of the plain, its layout a clear, deliberate grid. The river is near; the land is flat. But this is no sprawling town. Develo…
This is a church of deliberate, austere geometry. Its longitudinal plan, a single nave divided into two great bays, sets up a quiet play of forms: the…
Perched on a high, panoramic ridge, this church complex is a place apart: almost isolated, surrounded by broad, wooded green space. The Santuario di S…
Città consolidata caratterizzata da margini fisici naturali e artificiali, situata a nord-est rispetto a Foggia. Presenta funzioni di culto, di freque…
Città consolidata caratterizzata da margini fisici naturali e artificiali, situata a nord-est rispetto a Foggia. Presenta funzioni di culto, di freque…
The medieval core of Avetrana, historically called Vetrana, is a study in survival and reinvention. Its irregular layout clings to the oldest part of …
The little medieval borgo of Arnesano, laid out on a flat agricultural plain, is a study in rational order. Its streets, narrow and intersecting at ri…
The old heart of Martina Franca is a tight, near-circular maze, its perimeter traced by a broad boulevard that follows the line of vanished defences. …
Castellaneta’s historic centre is a medieval warren of tight, irregular lanes, shaped less by design than by the stubborn geology of the gravina, a de…
The old centre of Melicuccà, once known as the Villaggio dei Melicocchi, spreads across a hillside ridge in a landscape that feels more agricultural t…
On a hilltop 449 metres above sea level, to the right of the Esaro river, Malvito’s historic centre keeps its medieval bones visible. The original def…
Il centro storico di Mammola presenta un nucleo più antico di epoca medievale (l’edificato intorno alla Chiesa Matrice), una parte sei-settecentesca n…
The ancient borgo of Pietrapennata is a Byzantine-era settlement laid out to follow the slope of its hill: the urban plan adapts to the terrain rather…
From the sea, Praiano reveals itself as a hillside town strung along the Amalfi coast, its buildings climbing vertiginously above a shoreline that rem…
Rutino’s historic centre drapes along the old Tirrena state road, its linear shape dictated by that ancient artery. This is a borgo of the Cilento, a …
High in the Campanian Apennines, Airola is a mountain town of remote origins, its history written in layers of stone and soil. Inhabited since prehist…
In a region of vertiginous coasts and deep gorges, where the Lattari mountains meet the brilliant blue of the Gulf of Naples, Sorrento is a town whose…
Perched on a hilltop in the Irpinia region, Rocca San Felice is a medieval settlement whose origins lie in the early Middle Ages. At its crown stand t…
The historic centre of Castellana Grotte is a consolidated hilltop town, its organic, concentric layout defined by natural and man-made boundaries. Ex…
On the road southeast from Bari, Capurso is the first of the old agricultural towns you meet. Its historic centre is a near-perfect ellipse, a form di…
The oldest part of Bisceglie, this coastal historic centre began as the Byzantine casale di Vigiliae in the eighth century, a watchful settlement on a…
Putignano’s historic centre is a compact, purposeful place. Its ancient core, the locus pautiniano of tenth-century records, was shaped by natural and…
A small hill town whose name, for some scholars, derives from the Greek for ‘watchtower’, an apt description, given its elevated, defensive position. …
On the hill where survivors of Grumentum fled Saracen destruction, the medieval borgo of Saponaria, later Grumento Nova, grew around a Norman castle. …
On a low hill south-west of Brindisi, Oria, once called Uria, then Hyria, holds a position that has served it since the Mycenaean age. According to tr…
In the highlands of Basilicata, Armento is a hilltop borgo whose antiquity is worn into its stone. The ground here has yielded artefacts from very anc…
Abriola, known historically as Apriola from the early tenth century, sits as a fortified hilltop centre whose oldest quarters retain a distinctly Arab…
Il centro ha un impianto quattrocentesco chiuso sul tracciato dell’antica cerchia di mura del sec. XV che si appoggiavano alla bastionata del castello…
A mountain borgo of medieval origin, Carbone has kept much of its original urban layout. The old quarter is punctuated by a number of noble houses and…
The historic centre of Malito strings along the ridge of a hill, running precisely north-south between two religious landmarks: the church of San Mart…
On a modest hilltop above the Ionian coast, Calopezzati follows its ridge northeastward, a small defensive borgo with origins in the Byzantine era. Th…
On a hillside in Calabria, this medieval borgo once went by the Greek name Kaminion, meaning chimney or furnace, a relic of the potteries that once fi…
Nel centro storico vi è la presenza di edifici storici di pregio quali Villa Pina - ex Cinema, Fabbricato Tortora, il Municipio, e numerosi palazzi qu…
Piedimonte Matese, known historically as Piedimonte d’Alife, occupies a strategic valley-floor position at the foot of the Matese massif. Though the s…
Cuccaro Vetere perches on a hilltop like a weathered stone sentinel, its ancient core still clinging to the defensive logic of a Byzantine borgo. The …
A modest limestone stele, its surface softened by time, preserves a rare and poignant fragment of Bari’s early medieval Jewish community. The stone is…
A small, nearly square stele of soft limestone, its upper right corner chipped. On one face, a seven-branched menorah is carved, flanked on each long …
A limestone funerary cippus, composed of a cylindrical base supporting a rectangular stele. On its front face, a carved epigraphic panel of 24 by 12 c…
A fragmentary limestone cippus, broken at the top, bears witness to a Jewish presence in Byzantine Italy. On the right-hand side of its face, the base…
Monte Poggiolo is a Byzantine fortress in Italy. It is one of many fortified sites from that period, built to secure territory and control movement ac…
A Byzantine fortress in Italy. The type is common in regions where imperial military architecture adapted to local terrain and available materials.…
This is a Byzantine-era campanile, the bell tower of the Church of S. Giovanni Evangelista in Italy. Byzantine towers in this region often retain a st…
A site in Italy from the Byzantine period. It is a cave or grotto, likely used for shelter, storage or worship during that era.…
A Byzantine church in Italy, known as Chapel IX - The ascent to Calvary. It belongs to a type of Byzantine-era ecclesiastical building, of which sever…
Chapel VII - The Flagellation of Christ is a Byzantine church in Italy. It is one of several small chapels from this period, when Byzantine religious …
A chapel within the Sacro Monte di Ossuccio, in Italy. It is a Byzantine-era church. The Sacro Monte complex is known for its series of devotional cha…
Asilo Negroni is a Byzantine site in Italy. Little is known about its specific history. Byzantine sites in Italy often reflect the complex cultural an…
A Byzantine church in Italy, known as the IX cappella (Salita al Calvario). Byzantine churches in Italy often reflect the eastern empire's influence o…
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