Italy - tourist attractions (page 10)

	Palazzo Farnese	Palazzo Farneseis one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian state, it was given to the French Government in 1936 for a period of 99 years, and currently serves as the French embassy in Italy. First designed in 1517 for the Farnese family, the building expanded...
	Scuola Grande di San Marco	The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice, Italy. It originally was the home to one of the six major sodalities or Scuole Grandi of Venice. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city. The edifice was built by the Confraternity of San Marco in 1260 t...
	Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua	The Basilica of Sant'Andrea is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral and minor basilica in Mantua, Lombardy (Italy). It is one of the major works of 15th century Renaissance architecture in Northern Italy. Commissioned by Ludovico II Gonzaga, the church was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battist...
	Basilica of Santa Maria Novella	Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated just across from the main railway station which shares its name. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The church, the adjoining cloister, and chapterhouse contain a sto...
	Ospedale degli Innocenti	The Ospedale degli Innocenti ('Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the Spedale degli Innocenti) is a historical building in Florence, central Italy. Designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in 1419, it was originally a children's orphanage. It is rega...
	Torcello	Torcello is a quiet and sparsely populated island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon. It is considered the oldest continuously populated region of Venice, and once held the largest population of the Republic of Venice. After the downfall of the Roman Empire, Torcello was one of the first l...
	Burano	Burano is an island in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy; like Venice itself, it could more correctly be called an archipelago of four islands linked by bridges. It is situated near Torcello at the northern end of the Lagoon, and is known for its lacework and brightly coloured homes. Burano is sit...
	Murano	Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 km north of Venice and has a total population of just over 5,500. It is famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking. It was once an independent comune, but is now a frazione of the com...
	St Mark's Clocktower	The Clock Tower (Torre dell'Orologio) in Venice is an early renaissance building on the north side of the Piazza San Marco at the entrance to the Merceria. It comprises a tower, which contains the clock, and lower buildings on each side. It adjoins the eastern end of the Procuratie Vecchie. It was d...
	Procuratie	The Procuratie (literally, "procuracies") are three connected buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice. They are historic buildings over arcades, the last of them, Ala Napoleonica, completed under Napoleon 's occupation to finish off the square. The oldest of the buildings is the Procuratie Vecchie ...