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Ca' d'Oro, also known as the Palazzo Santa Sofia, may be the best known example of residential Venetian Gothic architecture in the city.

Venice's Biblioteca Marciana stands as a symbol of the city's wealth and its long tradition of civic investment in intellectual and artistic pursuits.

Much of the current design for Santa Maria del Giglio dates to a 1680-83 renovation by the architect Giuseppi Sardi, working under the patronage of Antonio Barbaro.

The original Parma Cathedral was consecrated in 1106 but was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake that struck northern Italy in 1117.

Facing the Biblioteca Marciana, adjacent to the Basilica San Marco, the Palazzo Ducale commands a preeminent place in the geography of Venice.

Naples was a thriving city in the early 18th century, both larger and wealthier than Rome, but it also had a significant impoverished population.

The garden of the Villa Medici at Castello is the prototype for sixteenth-century Italian gardens.

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici.

San Giacomo Maggiore boasts an elegant portico - the only one of Renaissance style in Bologna - along its northern side.

The whimsical appearance of i trulli with their domed or conical roofs have attracted the attention of architects and tourists for centuries.

Along a narrow valley in the Picentini Mountains, the flowing water of the Tusiano River gradually excavated a deep natural cavern on the western slopes of Monte Raione.

The basilica is a highlight of the late baroque in Rome.