Places freitag97 Wants to Go

Take a seat and hear a song by the composer Frédéric Chopin.

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

An abandoned village, frozen in time by the threat of a landslide.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

Since the 1960s, this small village has invited painters to decorate its walls.

Stuck in the arcade of Casa Isolani are three arrows of mysterious origins.

This ultra-modern burial building would have stacked the dead like a giant filing cabinet.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

The memory of the ancient unit of measurement of local builders.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

A medieval stronghold rising over the ruins of ancient Roman villas along Rome's southern coast.

A lavish 16th-century mansion filled with spectacular staircases, fantastic frescoes, and gorgeous gardens.

This monastery set over a holy cave contains the oldest known painting of Saint Francis of Assisi.

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

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

This building was designed to celebrate Italy's victory in World War I.