Underground Naples from piazza San Gaetano: the Greek cisterns, the well-keepers, the air-raid shelters and the Roman theatre, with hours, ticket and duration.
The Certosa di San Martino in Naples: the Cuciniello nativity scene, the Tavola Strozzi, the cloisters and the view over the bay, with hours and tickets.
Campobasso: the Monforte Castle reopened in 2026 after three years of works and the National Archaeological Museum, with times, tickets and closing days.
Termoli cathedral: the Apulian Romanesque facade with its rose window and archivolts, the crypt, the relics of Saint Bassus and the walled old town.
Larino in Molise: the Roman amphitheatre left by the will of Lucius Capito, the cathedral of San Pardo, the mosaics of the Civic Museum, times and tickets.
The italic sanctuary of Pietrabbondante: the theatre of the Samnite Pentri with its carved backrests, temple B, the polygonal walls, times and tickets.
Saepinum at Altilia di Sepino: the Roman town crossed by the droving road, the shepherds’ inscription on Porta Bojano, the forum, the theatre and the times.
What to see in Molise: Saepinum crossed by the droving road, the Samnite sanctuary of Pietrabbondante, the amphitheatre of Larino, Termoli and Campobasso.
The MAXXI L’Aquila at Palazzo Ardinghelli: the baroque palace restored after 2009, the Thursday to Sunday hours, tickets and the 2026 exhibitions.
The Tuvixeddu necropolis in Cagliari, the largest in the Punic world, and the Grotta della Vipera: the shaft tombs, the opening hours and what is closed today.
The basilica of San Saturnino in Cagliari, reopened in 2026: the Greek-cross martyrium, the Byzantine dome, its narrow opening hours and free admission.
The fountain of the 99 spouts in L’Aquila: ninety-three stone masks and six plain spouts, the legend of the 99 castles and the spring never revealed.
Cagliari cathedral of Santa Maria: the pulpits by Master Guglielmo brought from Pisa, the sanctuary of the martyrs cut into the rock, opening hours and tickets.
The Spanish fort in L’Aquila and the MuNDA reopened in the castle in 2025: the mammoth, the Beffi Triptych, Antonello’s Ecce Homo, hours and tickets.
The arch of Augustus in Aosta, of 25 BC, was once a house and a fort: the story of the 1449 crucifix and of the stone bridge left dry after a medieval flood.
The megalithic area of Saint-Martin-de-Corléans in Aosta: the anthropomorphic stelae, the ritual ploughed field and the dolmen tombs, with times and tickets.
The basilica of San Bernardino in L’Aquila: the staircase, Cola dell’Amatrice’s facade, the mausoleum by Silvestro dell’Aquila and the Della Robbia.
The National Art Gallery of Cagliari and its retablos: the Master of Castelsardo, Saint Eligius and the Cavaro workshop of Stampace, with hours and tickets.
Aosta cathedral: the 12th and 14th-century choir mosaics, the 11th-century frescoes in the roof space and the treasure museum, with opening times and tickets.
The basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L’Aquila: the chequered facade, the Perdonanza Holy Door, the mausoleum of Celestine V and the restoration.
The collegiate church of Sant’Orso in Aosta: the Romanesque cloister with forty carved capitals, the roof-space frescoes, the crypt, opening times and tickets.
The National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari: the Nuragic bronzes, the Nora stone, the Giants now at Cabras, opening hours and the closed floor.
The Roman theatre of Aosta reopened on 3 July 2026 with a partial route: what you see, what you do not, the 22-metre façade and the walls of Augusta Praetoria.
What to see in Cagliari in two days: the Castello district, the Nuragic bronzes, the retablos of the art gallery, the cathedral, San Saturnino and Tuvixeddu.
What to see in L’Aquila in two days: Collemaggio and the Perdonanza, the MuNDA back in the castle, San Bernardino, the 99 spouts and the MAXXI.
What to see in Aosta in one day: the reopened Roman theatre, the arch of Augustus, the cryptoporticus, two 11th-century fresco cycles and the megalithic area.
The frescoed façades of Trento: the Cazuffi and Rella houses in Piazza Duomo, Palazzo Geremia on Via Belenzani, who painted them and how to look at them.
The Council of Trent and art: the 1563 decree on sacred images, who turned it into rules and how paintings really changed in the century that followed.
The Falcomatà seafront in Reggio Calabria: the Greek walls of Dionysius, the Roman baths, the Aragonese Castle and the truth about the d’Annunzio quotation.
The Palombaro Lungo of Matera: the cistern under Piazza Vittorio Veneto, five million litres, rediscovered in 1991, and the water system of the Sassi.
Matera cathedral, reopened in 2016: the sixteen-spoke rose window, the Madonna della Bruna of 1270, the Last Judgement and the stone nativity.
Reggio Calabria Cathedral, rebuilt after the 1908 earthquake: the facade, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel taken apart and put back piece by piece, and the hours.
Trento Cathedral and Santa Maria Maggiore, the two Council churches: the spiral staircases, the early Christian basilica, the crucifix and the organ loft.
The Cycle of the Months in Torre Aquila, Trento: the snowball fight, the grape harvest, the lost month and how the timed visit actually works.
The Civic Art Gallery of Reggio Calabria: the two panels by Antonello da Messina, the seventeenth century of Mattia Preti and Luca Giordano, hours and visiting.
The Sassi of Matera: what separates the Caveoso from the Barisano, how a cave house worked and the story of the 1952 evacuation up to UNESCO.
