Borghese Gallery, Rome
A small museum in a 17th-century villa in the Villa Borghese park, with one of the finest art collections in the world: Bernini's breathtaking marble…
A small museum in a 17th-century villa in the Villa Borghese park, with one of the finest art collections in the world: Bernini's breathtaking marble…
Malcesine is one of the prettiest towns on Lake Garda, with a medieval castle on the rocks above the water and a small harbour.
The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is home to Michelangelo's David, the 5 m marble statue carved between 1501 and 1504, displayed under a skylit…
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, painted on the wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie between 1495 and 1498.
One of the world's great art museums, in a Renaissance building beside the Arno, with masterpieces such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera,…
The oldest museum in the world devoted entirely to ancient Egypt, and one of the most important outside Cairo, with more than 30,000 objects: mummies…
Rome's most famous fountain, a baroque masterpiece completed in 1762, with the sea god Oceanus riding a chariot pulled by sea horses, set against the…