ITALY - CITIES

Ancona

Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche region, in central Italy. Ancona is one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea, especially for passenger traffic. Il monumento ai caduti is the War Memorial, one of the main historic monuments of Ancona, better known as Passetto Monument commemorating the second world-war victims. The monument is circular shape and consists of eight fluted columns ending on Doric capitals. In its middle you can see a little altar.

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Milano

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy as well as of the province of Milan. The Gothic cathedral took nearly six centuries to complete. It is the fourth largest cathedral in the world and the largest in the Italian state territory. The plan consists of a nave with four side-aisles, crossed by a transept and then followed by choir and apse. The height of the nave is about 45 meters. The roof is open to tourists (for a fee), which allows many a close-up view of some spectacular sculpture that would otherwise be unappreciated. The roof of the cathedral is renowned for the forest of openwork pinnacles and spires, set upon delicate flying buttresses.

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Roma - Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'. The Fontana del Nettuno (Fountain of Neptune) was once called "Fontana dei Calderari" because it was located close to a small alley with blacksmith's workshops, makers of pots and pans and of other metal based businesses, all of them generating heat.

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Napoli

Naples is the capital of Campania and the third-largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. It  is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Greek settlements were established on the island of Megaride in the Gulf of Naples as early as the 9th century BC. Guglia di San Gennaro (on the postcard) - dedicated to the patron saint of the city, who, it is said, saved Naples from the volcanic eruption in 1631, was designed by Cosimo Fanzano during the second half of the 17th century and it was completed in 1660. Near the Duomo, in the piazza Riario Sforza, where until the first half of the XIV century was a bronze horse dedicated to Neptune, stands the most ancient spire of the city. An example of the baroque style, it has a rich decoration at its base with siren volutes and long volutes ending with a Ionic capital that supports the bronze statue of the saint by Tommaso Montani.

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Gallipoli

Gallipoli (Grek meaning "Beautiful City") is a town and comune in the province of Lecce, in Apulia, southern Italy. It is located by the Ionian Sea, on the west coast of the Salentina Peninsula. The town of Gallipoli is divided in two parts, the modern and the old city. The new town includes all the newest buildings including a skyscraper. The old town, instead, is located on a limestone island, linked to the mainland by a bridge built in the 16th century.

 

 

 

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