Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Inside, look out for Paolo Uccello’s famous fresco of the 14th-century British mercenary, Sir John Hawkwood and climb the 414 steep, narrow steps of Giotto’s slim bell-tower for a bird’s-eye ...

The first hints that something exciting was underfoot came in 1592, when an architect building a subterranean aqueduct came across a buried building with frescoes on the wall. Further single ...