The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in ...
It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in ...
Aquileia (in Friuli-Venezia Giulia), one of the largest and wealthiest cities of the Early Roman Empire, was destroyed by Attila in ...
Mantua and Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows ...
Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest ...
The historic city of Verona was founded in the 1st century B.C. It particularly flourished under the rule of the Scaliger ...
This pilgrimage church, built in honour of St John of Nepomuk, stands at Zelená Hora, not far from Ždár nad Sázavou ...
Kroměříž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which ...
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding example of the international style ...
The ensemble of the Jewish Quarter, the old Jewish cemetery and the Basilica of St Procopius in Třebíč are reminders of ...
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. ...
Seven properties built by the architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) in or near Barcelona testify to Gaudí’s exceptional creative contribution to the ...