Ruins in Italy

A living example of historical stratification: a Roman amphitheater, a medieval farm, and modern town square.

Discover the ruins of medieval paper mills, a scenic gorge, and a museum celebrating centuries of paper production.

Castle ruins of the not-so-chaste baronessa whose lovers mysteriously disappeared.

Medieval streets buried beneath a papal fortress now form an underground city you can walk through.

An ancient aqueduct tells the story of Sardinia's ancient Roman past.

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

Well-preserved, still-functional sliding wood doors from Ancient Rome can be found in this Vesuvius-stricken house.

An ancient theatre in the "little Rome of the Alps."

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

For centuries, this town's hot springs have been embraced by rich and poor—and even by Popes.

See what remains of a once grand ancient Roman circus.

Once home to the episcopal curia of the local diocese.

These ruins on Mont Tantané dates back to the Iron Age, but there is limited evidence for why a village was built so far from water or other resources.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.