More than half of the world's artistic heritage is in Italy, and much of it lives in its cities of art: eternal Rome, Florence cradle of the Renaissance, impossible and unique Venice. But also the "small greats": Urbino, Mantua, Ferrara, Lecce.
Rome Lazio The eternal city Florence Tuscany The cradle of the Renaissance Venice Veneto The city on water Siena Tuscany Gothic beauty and the Palio Urbino Marche Raphael's ideal city Mantua Lombardy The dream of the Gonzaga dynasty Ferrara Emilia-Romagna The city of the Este court Lecce Puglia The Florence of the Baroque Ravenna Emilia-Romagna The Byzantine mosaics Padua Veneto Giotto and the Basilica of St Anthony Palermo Sicily Arab-Norman mosaics and ancient street markets Catania Sicily Baroque streets built in black lava beneath Etna Syracuse Sicily The Greek theatre and the island of Ortygia Campobasso Molise The Monforte castle and the Misteri carried through the streets Isernia Molise La Pineta, among Europe's oldest settlements, and the Fontana Fraterna Sepino Molise Saepinum, the Roman town left standing along the drove road Larino Molise The Roman amphitheatre and a rose window with thirteen spokes Venafro Molise Augustus's colony and the Pandone castle Melfi Basilicata The castle of Frederick II's Constitutiones Venosa Basilicata Horace's city and the roofless abbey Grumento Nova Basilicata Roman Grumentum and its museum