Italy - tourist attractions (page 8)

	The Turtle Fountain	The Turtle Fountain (Fontana delle Tartarughe) is placed in the Piazza Mattei in the centre of Rome. It was designed by the architect Giacomo delola Porta and the sculptor Taddeo Landini. The fountain was created between 1580 and 1588. The first construction plan anticipated that the fountain would...
	Monte Cassino	The Monte Cassino is a place where in 1944 a series of battles happened between the Allies and the Wehrmacht. They took place near a monastery of the same name located between Rome and Naples. The battle of Monte Cassino is called The Battle for Rome. at that time, river valleys of Rapido and Liri,...
	The St. Angel Castle	The St. Angel Castle, known also as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, was supposed to serve as a tomb for the Emperor Hadrian, his family and his successors. It is located on the left bank of the Tiber river in Rome, Italy. The construction began in 135 and finished in 139. At first, it was built on the pl...
	Parc and hill Colle Oppio	The Park on the Oppian Hill is are a public space in Rome, Italy, covering an area of 11 hectares. During the Roman epoch, the Oppian Hill used to be an important trade and economic centre. It was a higly urbanized area, for which many architectural projects were commissioned. In the Medieval times...
	Villa Ada (Villa Savoia)	The Villa Ada (Villa Savoia) is the largest park in Rome covering an area of 182 hectares. It is located in the north-east part of the city. Nowadays, it is commonly known as the Villa Ada but some sources still give the name Villa Savoia. This results from the fact that in the second half of the 1...
	St Mark's Basilica	The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (officially known in Italian as the Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco and commonly known as Saint Mark's Basilica) is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. Dominating over the St Mark's Square, t...
	St Mark's Square in Venice	St Marks Square (Piazza San Marco) is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza". All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called "campi" (fields). The Piazzetta (the 'little Piazza') is an extension of th...
	Villa Borghese gardens	The Villa Borghese gardens is the second biggest park located in the very centre of Rome, Italy. It covers an area of over 80 hectares. The park was designed by the architect Flaminio Ponzio to complement the Villa Borghese located on the Pincian hill. In 1605, the cardinal Scipione Borghese starte...
	Palermo Cathedral	Palermo Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo, located in Palermo, Sicily. As an architectural complex, it is characterized by the presence of different styles, due to a long history of additions, alterations and restorations, the last of which occurred in th...
	Catania Cathedral	Catania Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Catania, Cattedrale di Sant'Agata) dedicated to Saint Agatha, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. It was the seat of the Bishops of Catania until 1859, when the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese, and since then has been the seat...