Santuario di Montenero

di Montenero, 10, Livorno

The Sanctuary of Montenero is one of the largest collections of votive of Italy: with 700 collected and displayed in the large rooms that surround the Church. The...

Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo di Firenze)

Piazza del Duomo, 14, Firenze

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, is the third largest church in the world, and by extension symbol of the city. It rose above the...

Santuario del Volto Santo

Via dei Cappuccini, Manoppello (Pescara)

The convent that towers over Manoppello is the result of a succession of works carried on from 1848 to1965, which have utterly altered the original state of the...

Battistero di San Giovanni a Firenze

Piazza San Giovanni, 1n, Firenze

The Florence Baptistery (Italian: Battistero di San Giovanni), also known as the Baptistry of Saint John, is a religious building inFlorence, Italy, and has the...

Chiesa di Sant'Agnese in Agone

Piazza Navona, Roma

The Church of St. Agnes in Agony lies on the western side of Navona Square. St. Agnes, who is dedicated the Church, died as a martyr in the Stadium of Domitian...

Basilica di San Marco

Piazza San Marco, 15, Venezia

The St. Marc Basilica is the main Cathedral of Venice, seat of the Patriarch and symbols of the city. The first Church dedicated to St. Marc was built next to the...

Abbazia di Santa Maria Arabona

Località Arabona, Manoppello (Pescara)

The Cistercian Abbey of Arabona was most probably founded when, in the year 1197, Gentile and Manerio of Palearia bestowed a donation on the monk Pietro from...

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano

Largo del Colonnato, 9, Città del Vaticano

The Basilica of St. Peter is the largest Catholic church in the world. The construction of the building began in 1506, under Pope Julius II, and ended in 1626, under...

Chiesa di Santo Stefano degli Abissini

Città del Vaticano

The St. Stephen's Abyssinians is in the homonymous Largo, behind St. Peter's Basilica, in Vatican City. It belonged to a pre-existing monastery of the eighth century....

Monastero Mater Ecclesiae

Via A. Canal, Città del Vaticano

The Mater Ecclesiae Monastery is located inside the Vatican Gardens, near the Fountain of the Eagle. The complex was built between 1992 and 1994 by Pope John Paul II,...