The Capitoline museums date from 1471 and are one of the world’s oldest public museums, its buildings proudly standing on the Capitoline Hill either side of Michelangelo’s beautiful Piazza. It was begun by Pope Sixtus […]
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio spent several years in Rome before fleeing a death warrant in 1606 issued after he had committed murder. He was in Rome when the Catholic church was actively countering Protestantism, building […]
Lucca is a stunning town in Tuscany which still retains its city walls all the way round. They are the best preserved such walls in all of Europe. The centre is almost completely car-free and […]
The Archaeological museum in Arezzo has several collections of interest to the inquisitive visitors. These include Etruscan, Roman and early-medieval sections as well as prehistoric and paleontological collections. It is located in an ex-monastery from […]
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