Architecture in Italy

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

The city of Palestrina was built around this magnificent terraced sanctuary dedicated to the pagan goddess Fortuna.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Three underground crypts and a pointed arch under the bell tower make this cathedral unique among Romanesque churches.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.