The castrum with the Torba Tower and the church outside the walls
in
Torba
at
Via Monastero
The Castrum, destroyed by the Visconti in the late 13th century - with the exception of buildings of worship - still keeps the imposing ring-wall, the housing system and the main worship complex of San Giovanni Evangelista, with Basilica and annexed octagonal Baptistery, completely reconstructed by the Longobards in the 7th century and used internally and externally for the burial of important local personages. A particularly significant example of military architecture is the Torba Tower which, in late Longobard times, was used as a nuns' Convent. The Church of Santa Maria foris portas, outside the walls where the burg developed in the Early Middle Ages, was erected as a private aristocratic building with annexed cemetery.
Prehistoric Pile Dwelling Lagazzi del Vho
in
Piadena
The settlements in the area of lakes and marshes are stilt houses resting on "drainage" of horizontal trunks, arranged in layered platform or cassette. They had a relatively limited extension, about a hectare, and a population between 200 and 300 people per village.
Historic city
of
Sabbioneta
at
Piazza Garibaldi
Sabbioneta is a walled town in Lombardy, northern Italy. Accessible via 2 Renaissance-era gates, it's home to the grand Palazzo Ducale, with stucco portraits and an ornate interior, and the elegant Teatro all'Antica. Crowned by a wooden cornice, the whitewashed Palazzo del Giardino houses a collection of 16th-century frescoes.
Sacred Mountain Belmonte
in
Cuorgne
at
Via Ivrea, 22
The Sacred Mount of Belmonte is a monumental complex including a sanctuary of a medieval origins and thirteen chapels dedicated to the Passion of Christ. The chapels rise along a circular course, that passes through a wood of oak and chestnut trees hundreds of years old, and large granite rocks of a pinkish colour.
Barbera Vineyard Landscape
in
Nizza Monferrato
Villages such as Castelnuovo Calcea and Rocchetta Palafea are important names for Nizza wine but also offer a road less travelled in the region. You would be wrong to assume that this translates to less appealing, however. The Monferrato hills shelter an array of intimate boutique hotels, such as La Collina dei Conigli in Castel Boglione, which offer the same spellbinding landscape as its Barolo neighbours.
Fortified city
in
Peschiera del Garda
The area includes the entire inhabited centre inside the bastioned pentagon built by the Venetians. Moreover, the water elements -Canale di Mezzo, Mincio ramification- have been included as they strongly connote the site from the geo-morphological point of view, as well as their navigability as early as Venetian times. Plotted this way, the nominated property includes the entire urban fabric bordered by rampart walls which together with water works and military have strongly characterized the urban design.
Villa Piovene
in
Lugo di Vicenza
at
51, Via Andrea Palladio
The villa is certainly the product of three campaigns of work: documents demonstrate the existence of a manorial house, smaller than the present one and certainly constructed before 1541, which was enlarged at a later stage by the addition of the pronaos bearing the inscribed date 1587: so the loggia that projects in the centerwith six Ionic columns supporting a triangular gable may have begun by Palladio around 1570 and completed after his death. The extension of the mansion and the vertical window rhythms can also be assumed to have taken place within the 1570s in accordance with Palladio's wishes, though not carried out by him.
click highlighted hovered text for more info, see 
_01.jpg){kind=link}
