Chiesa di S. Maria del Corno
A medieval church on Via di Santa Maria del Corno, in Rome. It is one of many small, neighbourhood places of worship from that period in the city, oft…
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A medieval church on Via di Santa Maria del Corno, in Rome. It is one of many small, neighbourhood places of worship from that period in the city, oft…
At the foot of the Gran Sasso massif in Abruzzo, this sanctuary is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Italy and Europe. A Vatican ranking pla…
Sabbioneta, a small town in the Lombardy province of Mantua, lies about 30 kilometres north of Parma, close to the northern bank of the Po River. Desi…
Castello Carafa stands as a blunt statement of medieval purpose. Its irregular polygonal core, built of strikingly large stone blocks, is a fortress d…
On a hill above Bisignano stands the Santuario Diocesano Sant'Umile da Bisignano, a church also known as the "Riforma". It belongs to the parish of Sa…
A medieval church and monastery in Italy, dedicated to St Anthony. The complex is a typical example of the region's monastic architecture from this pe…
On the summit of a wooded hill that dominates the Melandro Valley stands the Santuario Diocesano del SS.mo Crocifisso. This medieval church, perched a…
On a low hillside some four kilometres from Motta San Giovanni, in the contrada Oleandro, stands the church of Santa Maria Assunta, better known as Sa…
In the centre of Seminara, the Santuario della Madonna dei Poveri stands as a modest but significant landmark. This is a church with layers of formal …
Above Airola, where the Valle Caudina begins to rise, stands a sanctuary dedicated to Maria SS.ma Addolorata, a place of devotion for the local faithf…
In the historic centre of Montalto Uffugo, the Santuario Mariano Diocesano Santa Maria della Serra is a church of patient endurance. Its bones are ear…
The convent occupies a long stretch of via Gennaro, its buildings arranged around two courtyards, each from a different period. The first court is fla…
A medieval fortress in Italy, the Tour d'Amount e castello di Borgo Vecchio stands as a fortified remnant of its period. It is a structure typical of …
The church of Maria SS.ma della Grazia, originally dedicated to the Annunziata, is the defining symbol of Carpanzano. It guards a venerated Marian ima…
Castello Estense is a medieval fortress in Ferrara, Italy. It is a well-preserved example of a moated castle from the medieval period, typical of the …
On the Calabrian coast, Pizzo’s historic centre rises from a rocky promontory, its medieval street plan still legible along the percorso matrice of Vi…
In the heart of Aspromonte, cradled among the mountains at the foot of Montalto, lies the Santuario della Madonna di Polsi. This medieval church, know…
This is a complex, a monumental unit split into two adjoining architectural halves: the church and the convent. The church follows a Latin cross plan,…
Castello di S. Cassiano is a medieval fortress in Italy. It is a fortified structure typical of its period, designed for defence and control of the su…
Fermo is a medieval borgo in the Marche region of Italy. It occupies a hilltop site typical of such fortified settlements.…
In the Campanian hills above Caposele, the Santuario di San Gerardo Maiella rises from a conventual complex that has drawn pilgrims for centuries. The…
A medieval church in Italy, the Pieve di San Giovanni Battista is a rural parish church typical of its period, built to serve a local community. Its a…
This palazzo, square in plan and rising three storeys above ground, presents a face of exposed brick and stone, partly rendered, that signals a certai…
S. Alessandro is a medieval church in Italy. It belongs to a period when ecclesiastical architecture often reflected local Romanesque traditions.…
The Santuario Basilica Santa Maria Madonna della Catena rises from a medieval past, its story beginning in 1301 when a blind beggar, Simone Adami, is …
The Santuario della Madonna de Jesu rises on the edge of Bocchigliero, a church built around 1400 and attached to what was once a convent of Reformed …
The Collegiata di San Giovanni Battista is a medieval church in Italy. It belongs to the collegiate type, meaning it was served by a community of secu…
S. Cristina is a medieval church in Italy. It belongs to a period when ecclesiastical architecture often combined Romanesque solidity with early Gothi…
The interior of this medieval church is a single nave, roofed by a ribbed, lunette-vaulted ceiling. Vertical pilasters divide each side into four smal…
A medieval monastery in Italy, dedicated to Saints Philip and James. It belongs to a period when monastic communities shaped the landscape and spiritu…
Some stretches of curtain wall and the remains of what was probably a tower are all that survive of La Rocca, a fortress dismantled by the French in t…
A medieval church in Italy. It is a church of the period, dedicated to Saint Clare. The architecture and layout are typical of its era.…
In 1427, a papal bull commissioned the Friars Minor of Sant’Antonio di Padova to build a convent in the territory of Teano. The friars rejected the no…
A former church, the Chiesa del Santo Sepolcro stands in Italy. It is a medieval ecclesiastical building.…
A medieval palazzo in Italy, its name suggests a former tower or fortified residence. Such structures were built by powerful urban families as stateme…
In the medieval countryside of Sant’Agata de’ Goti, a small church dedicated to Santa Maria stood among the vines. The name ‘Palmentata’ recalls a lan…
A sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna of Manipuglia stands in the woods of Crucoli, two kilometres from the hamlet of Torretta. The place-name ‘Manipug…
Diano Castello is a medieval borgo in the Italian region of Liguria. It is a fortified hilltop settlement, typical of the area's medieval defensive ar…
Lerici is a medieval borgo in the region of Italy. It stands on the coast, with a castle and a tightly clustered historic centre. Medieval borghi like…
A few kilometres from Matera, the Santuario Santa Maria della Palomba takes its name from the dove, la Palomba, carved upon its portal. Though the pre…
A medieval monastery in Italy. It is a former convent, now deconsecrated. Such sites often reflect the region's layered history of religious life and …
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to S. Nicolò e Francesco. It belongs to the period when many such structures were built across the region, often…
Forte Bramafam is a medieval fortress in Italy. It stands as a military structure typical of its period, built for defence and territorial control.…
On the outskirts of Caltagirone, where a small church dedicated to Santa Maria del Perpetuo Soccorso once stood, its ruins later serving as stables, r…
Chiesa di Santa Maria in Idris is a medieval church in Italy. It belongs to the region's long tradition of rock-cut ecclesiastical architecture, where…
A church, the Chiesa di S. Pietro Caveoso, in the medieval region of Italy. It is a medieval church of a type common in the Italian countryside.…
The Convento dei Minori Osservanti di S. Francesco fills an entire block in the old town, its original plan now partly obscured by later houses built …
Rio dei Greci, facciata principale: polifore e finestre del gotico maturo e due portali con arco a tutto sesto…
A medieval fortress in Italy, the Castello dei Doria di Genova is a fortified structure associated with the powerful Doria family. It belongs to a per…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to San Giovanni Evangelista. It stands as a representative example of the region's ecclesiastical architecture f…
This is a church that has outlived its own name. Once dedicated to both Saint Mary and Saint Nicholas, it now goes simply by the first, a quiet edit m…
A medieval church, Chiesa San Domenico, stands in Italy. It is a church of its period, built for Dominican worship.…
This is a medieval gate, one of the few surviving thresholds into a walled town that once bristled with fortifications. Its face is honest, unrendered…
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Palazzolo Acreide is a medieval borgo in the Sicilian interior, perched on a rocky spur above the Anapo valley. It is one of many such fortified hillt…
On the ground floor of the buildings that frame Piazza Garibaldi, the Caffè Venezia and its neighbouring fourteenth-century shops survive as a rare fr…
Atika: Barletta, Puglia Barletta is a coastal town on the Apulian plain, its name a late echo of the Latin Bardulos recorded on the fourth-century Pe…
La costruzione attuale si presenta articolata in due corpi a “T” di cui solo il principale, affacciante su Corso Italia, costituisce l'originale fabbr…
At the edge of San Giovanni in Galilea, the medieval gate known as Mura survives in fragmentary form. Only the ruins of a great tower and stretches of…
A lone ruin stands in a meadow at the valley floor, unreachable by road or path. This medieval fortress, now a skeleton of its former self, rises from…
At the foot of the Alps, the Ricetto di Exilles is a fortified medieval grain store, a practical sort of monument. Its buildings rise two or three sto…
The Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo in Senerchia is the oldest place of worship in the Valle del Sele dedicated to the Prince of the Heavenly Host.…
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul stands in the small settlement of Trassilico, a single-nave building with a rectangular, apsed plan. Its structura…
In the heart of Nicastro stands the Chiesa della Veterana, a medieval church considered the oldest in the city and now a subsidiary of the parish of S…
Configurazione tronco-conica alla base e cilindrica nella parte superiore…
Lollove is a medieval borgo in Italy. It is a small, fortified hilltop settlement typical of the region’s medieval period, characterised by narrow sto…
Grottammare is a medieval borgo in Italy’s Marche region, set on a hill above the Adriatic coast. Its historic core is typical of such fortified hillt…
Sarnano is a medieval borgo in the Marche region of Italy. It is a hilltop settlement, typical of the many fortified villages that dot the Italian pen…
Mondavio is a medieval borgo in Italy. It is a fortified hilltop settlement typical of the region.…
On a spur of the Crati valley, where the coastal chain breaks into hills and the geology turns to ancient crystalline rock, San Fili grew not from a p…
On a rocky spur of the Aspromonte, Bruzzano Vecchio is a medieval borgo reduced to eloquent ruin. Its urban plan is a focused, enveloping development,…
Papaglionti Vecchio is a hilltop medieval borgo in Italy, a settlement of small two-storey stone-and-brick houses with wooden roof beams and terracott…
The church of S. Giovanni Battista e del Gonfalone, also known as that of the Disciplinati di S. Caterina, presents an exterior of deliberate, almost …
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Montegridolfo, a comune in the Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, sits roughly 130 kilometres southeast of Bologna and 20 kilometres southeast of Rim…
A medieval palazzo in Italy, the Palazzo Comunale served as the seat of civic government. Such buildings often combined defensive strength with a clea…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to San Leonardo. It stands in the locality of Cuga. The period saw many such rural churches built across the Ita…
In Paola’s upper quarter, Cancello, the Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata negotiates a steep site on two levels, straddling the Via Duomo and Via Cas…
Fornelli is a medieval borgo in Italy. It is a hilltop settlement of the kind that still dots the Italian landscape, its stone buildings and narrow st…
A medieval fortress in Italy. It is a defensive structure typical of the period, built for strategic control of the surrounding landscape.…
On the south-western lip of Monte Sant’Elia, the historic core of Roccaforzata clusters around a fortified residence that is its most notable monument…
Brienza is one of those rare places in Basilicata where the medieval layout of the old borgo has survived more or less intact. Clinging to its hilltop…
Lagonegro climbs the slopes in two distinct acts. The newer town gathers around a broad, gently sloping piazza, lined with plane trees and eighteenth-…
On a ridge above the Precariti valley, Stignano occupies the sort of natural position that medieval builders coveted. Its houses still cluster defensi…
High on a hillside in Calabria, Canolo Vecchio is the abandoned medieval core of a settlement whose origins reach back far further than its feudal rec…
In the Calabrian hills, Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte presents a medieval borgo with two distinct personalities. The older quarter, called “Paese Vecchio”…
Ceglie Messapica occupies a hilltop that has been inhabited since at least the Hellenistic period, when it was a substantial Messapic settlement calle…
A medieval church in Italy, known as the Tempio Votivo dei Caduti. It is a votive temple dedicated to the fallen, typical of the period's commemorativ…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to Sant'Agostino. It is a representative example of the region's ecclesiastical architecture from that period.…
These are the remains of a medieval castle. The site is in Italy. Fortresses of this period were often built for defence and control of the surroundin…
At the corner of a crossroads, this palazzetto and its medieval tower preside over a junction that still feels decisively medieval. It is part of a sm…
Sant'Antonio di Noi Noi is a medieval church in Italy. It stands as one of the many small, rural religious structures from that period, often built to…
These are the remains of a 14th-century bastion wall. The masonry is what remains of a medieval fortress in Italy. Such fortifications were typical of…
The birthplace of Pope Clement XIV, known as Ganganelli, presents an unassuming medieval face to the street. Its brick façade bears the ghostly outlin…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to S. Maria. It is a parish church, typical of the many small ecclesiastical buildings that dot the Italian coun…
This small, solitary church sits on level ground, its centralised plan a quiet architectural puzzle. A prismatic main volume is clasped by a rectangul…
A medieval palazzo at numbers 44 to 49 on via Giacomo Matteotti. It is a town palace typical of its period, built for a prominent urban family.…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to the Most Holy Crucifix. It is one of many small ecclesiastical buildings from the period that dot the Italian…
A medieval villa in Italy. Villas of this period often served as fortified agricultural estates, blending defensive features with rural domestic life.…
A medieval fortress in Italy, known as the Ruderi del castello di Tirasso. Its ruins stand as a fragment of the region's fortified past.…
Since the 14th century, this church has been a focal point for devotion to a miraculous crucifix, drawing pilgrims from the surrounding plain. The cul…
Montecchio is a medieval borgo in Italy. A borgo is a fortified hilltop settlement typical of the Italian medieval landscape, often clustered around a…
On the hill of Mottola, human presence has been unbroken since prehistory, Iron Age bronzes attest to that. The medieval borgo that grew here still ho…
A medieval monastery in Italy, now serving as the town hall and housing the civic museum. Its layered history is typical of such sites, where religiou…
On a low spur above the Gulf of Manfredonia, this medieval borgo was conceived at speed. Its name commemorates Manfredi of Sicily, Frederick II’s son,…
Fuscaldo’s medieval core huddles around a hilltop where the castle once stood, now only a few stubborn ruins remain. The old fortified citadel was ent…
Porta Bari, once known as Porta de Bari, was a principal gateway in the defensive walls of Altamura, a hilltop town in the region of Apulia. The city …
On a coast where ancient rivalries once set sail, Minori carries its history in fragments. This is the old Reginna Minor, a shipyard and arsenal that …
On a natural terrace 260 metres above the Tyrrhenian Sea, Belmonte Calabro keeps its medieval distance. Originally called Bellomontis castrum in 1270,…
On a spur of sandstone above the deep gullies of the Nicà valley, the medieval hilltop of Scala Coeli seems to climb the slope as though by its own vo…
Colliano is a study in layers. Beyond the orderly new town, built after the 1980 earthquake levelled much of it, rises a rocky outcrop crowned by the …
A medieval church in Italy, the Cappella di S. Jesus is a small, stone-built chapel. Its name suggests a dedication to the Holy Name, a common theme i…
Treia is a medieval borgo in the Marche region of Italy. Such hilltop settlements were typically built for defence and self-sufficiency, their narrow …
At Manduria, the Parco Archeologico delle Mura Messapiche preserves a rare triple circuit of defensive walls, built between the fifth and third centur…
il sito archeologico si distribuisce tra la parte alta, l’acropoli, in cui sono conservate le testimonianze più antiche della fase coloniale insieme a…
This is a medieval monastery in Italy. Such sites were centres of religious life and often of learning and agriculture.…
A medieval church in Italy, dedicated to San Lorenzo. The building is characteristic of its period, likely Romanesque or early Gothic in origin, thoug…
Castello di Itri is a medieval fortress in the town of Itri, in the Lazio region of Italy. It stands on a hilltop overlooking the surrounding countrys…
This modest medieval church presents a façade of restrained elegance: a moulded pediment with stucco decoration, a central rose window, and a stone po…
The Broletto is a sturdy, two-storey palazzo, its pitched roof a familiar sight in Italian medieval town squares. The ground floor is an open loggia, …
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