Bologna, Italy
Antica Aguzzeria del Cavallo
Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.
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Bologna, Italy
Once known for its horse-powered knife sharpening, this 200-year-old shop offers an array of blades and hard-to-find culinary tools.
Favara, Italy
This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
San Vito di Cadore, Italy
While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.
Fermo, Italy
A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.
Florence, Italy
Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.
Milan, Italy
The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.
Rome, Italy
This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.
Ravenna, Italy
This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.
Muggia, Italy
These pools have been abandoned for over 20 years.
Bagni San Filippo, Italy
Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.
Montecatini Terme, Italy
The bright red cars take travelers through breathtaking Tuscan scenery.
Pavia, Italy
This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.
Rome, Italy
The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.
Piombino, Italy
An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.
Cassino, Italy
This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.
Ischia di Castro, Italy
A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.
Pisa, Italy
The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.
Naples, Italy
An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.
Fontanellato, Italy
The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.
Pomposa, Italy
The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.
Lido, Italy
Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.
Noli, Italy
The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.