Orsanmichele leads my list of sights to see in your flash visit to Florence. If you were to look at the outside of the building, you...

Florence is a city that will give you whatever time you have. Whether you are spending four hours or four months, the city provides...

Rome was lost. Citizens were dying. This was 1522 and not the black death of 1348, Nevertheless the cultural memory must have been...

In the middle of Padua there is a building that I find, well, mysterious! In other words, looking at this building, I can't tell you...

If sightseeing in Padua has worn you out, take the time to relax at the Prato delle Valle. The Italian word ”prato” means "meadow", and...

Explore the Abbey Church of St. Giustina in Padua, a tribute to the 4th-century martyr. While its facade is famously plain, the interior reveals a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture. Discover the elegant aisles influenced by Brunelleschi, the stunning variations on the Pantheon's dome, and the sacred relics of St. Giustina and Luke the Evangelist housed within.

Every city needs a story - and Padua has a story that matches up with the greatest of them, tracing its founding to Antenor, a refugee from the city of Troy, thereby establishing the founding date of 1184 BC, the traditional date of the fall of Troy. The Trojan War was the biggest event of the ancient period - the generic time we think of as “Antiquity”, or what we think of when we hear “Greece and Rome”. Even today we know the phrase, “the face that launched a thousand ship