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Centro Storico di Presicce
Puglia
With its hypogea Presicce, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, dominates the southernmost area of Salento, in the Serre Salentine area.
Villages and old cities
Intangible heritage and craft
King Nikola's Palace
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
The Palace of King Nikola I Petrovic is located in the historical fabric of Cetinje, in the immediate vicinity of Njegos's Biljarda, leaning on th...
Culture and Art
History and tradition
Intangible heritage and craft
Girls Institute and Danilo I Hospital
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
Girls' Institute is a building for the accommodation and work of high school students under the auspices of the Russian Empress Maria Alexandrovna...
History and tradition
The medieval town of Zabljak Crnojevica
Montenegro
Cetinje
During the spring, when the level of the lake is extremely high, the hill with the city becomes an island and the connection with the mainland is poss...
Geological sites
History and tradition
Rijeka Crnojevica
Montenegro
81 250 Rijeka Crnojevica, Cetinje
The center of political and economic life of the municipal area in the Skadar basin has long been the urban settlement of Rijeka Crnojevica with the first mention under that name in the documents of the Historical Archive of Kotor on January 19, 1515.
Protected natural areas
Lakes and rivers
Mausoleum of Metropolitan Danilo
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
It was built on the site of a defensive tower built by Ivan Crnojevic. As part of the preparations for the celebration of the bicentennial of Petrovic...
History and tradition
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Mausoleum of Njegos
Montenegro
81 255 Njegusi, Cetinje
On Jezerski vrh on Lovcen, at an altitude of 1660 m, one of the most impressive and magnificent tombstones in the world was built - Njegos' mausol...
History and tradition
Culture and Art
Protected natural areas
Fortress Lesendro
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
The remains of a once mighty fortress are located on Lesendro, a small and rocky former island that lies in Skadar Lake between the villages of Vranji...
History and tradition
Architecture
Lipa cave
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
Lipa cave is one of the largest speleological objects in our country with a system of 2.5 km of canals, halls and galleries. Numerous renowned researc...
Protected natural areas
Anfiteatro Romano di Larino
Molise
The amphitheater of Larino, located in the area of Piana S. Leonardo, the ancient Larinum, is certainly the testimony of the importance of the city in the historical period considered: built most likely between 70 and 150 AD, it was built thanks to the generosity of a rich and wealthy senator of the town, as attested by the stone inscription on one of the doors. Cicerone reports (Pro Cluentio, IX, 27) that in Larino, long before having a permanent amphitheater, public games and shows (ludi) were habitually practiced in the city. It is likely that, as was also the case in Rome, they used mobile wooden structures or were used, as was the case in Sepino, the spaces of the Forum.
Architecture
Culture and Art
History and tradition
Torre Costiera di Petacciato
Molise
The Coastal Tower of Petacciato rises along the State Road that runs along the Adriatic Sea (SS 16), towards the side of the coast, at the same level of the road and at about 7 meters above sea level. Situated at the foot of the homonymous Marina di Petacciato, this tower is the last tower of a defensive system against the Turks, the twenty-fifth according to the numbering given by Gambacorta. It communicated to the north with the Trigno Tower, 6-8 km away and to the south with the Sinarca Tower, 6.5 km away. Wanted by Charles V in the XVI century, the tower is located in a privileged position and it is the result of precise strategic choices. In fact, all the towers had to have the view on all four sides and to be in visual connection with each other and with the villages behind.
Architecture
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
Castello Svevo di Termoli
Molise
Svevo Castle is located on the entrance to the old village of Termoli and it is the most representative defensive building of entire Molise coast. It was built around the 13th century, entirely in limestone and sandstone, to secure a defense both from the sea and from the mainland. The castle was defended by a sturdy wall in which were inserted the cylindrical towers and perfectly preserved is the one that anticipates the entrance arch of the old town. During Longobard domination, the inhabitants of the small feudals existing in the territory, given the increasing number of sea-related aggressions, they took refuge on the small promontory and built a fortified enclosure. The definition of Svevo seems to have been attributed afterwards the renovation and fortification required by Federico II of Svevia, who, cultivating the dream to reunite Germany and Italy under the same domain, designed a military program that transformed Norman fortifications in sight and signal towers.
Architecture
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
Castello Angioino di Civitacampomarano
Molise
The first construction could date back to the twelfth century. In this phase it was equipped with a tower and a wall circuit of trapezoidal shape. During the fifteenth century it was totally rebuilt, enlarging the walls and providing it with three circular towers and embattled with a base shoe. The two surviving towers are characterized by battlements and hanging arches resting on stone shelves. This crowning continues also on the curtain wall. Each tower was equipped with loopholes and connected to the walkways with rooms for the guards and the housing of weapons.
Architecture
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
Torre di Montebello Montenero di Bisaccia
Molise
Montebello Tower, is located in the homonymous district, about 12 km from Montenero di Bisaccia.
Because of its position, not far from the sea and to the right of the river Trigno, the tower had a function of defense and control of the Molise coast. In fact, it was in connection with the coastal towers of Termoli and Petacciato and together they controlled the coast from the attacks of the Turks. The Tower of Montebello was built on the ruins of the ancient castle of Montenero, with the purpose of defense during the long period of Saracen raids. It is supposed to have been built by the Normans, restored by Frederick II and completely rebuilt in the 16th century under the supremacy of Charles V.
Architecture
History and tradition
Villages and old cities
Castello Ciamarra Torella del Sannio
Molise
Placed on the line of the tratturo Lucera - Castel di Sangro, it was attributed by someone the role of fiscal castle, by some other of castle-rags. Specifically, it is located on top of Colle Ciglione, high above the village, where the first Lombard tower was built in the ninth century. In the 13th century it was fortified as a true castle by the Angevins. In the fifteenth century it was enlarged by the Aragonese and then passed to various barons including Ferrante of Aragon, the Francone and Caracciolo, passing later to the family Ciamarra. The castle has the shape of an aristocratic palace with an irregular rectangular plan and brick walls. It has three circular towers with a top decorated with battlements and a cone-shaped hood for the roof and a lower square tower.
Architecture
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
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Castello Pandone Venafro
Molise
The castle of Venafro rests on an ancient megalithic structure, on which the Lombard keep was built. The castle was renovated at the end of the twentieth century and since December 18, 2012 has become the first National Museum of Molise. Insiede artworks about fromo historical time and other important art collections.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
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Castello di Tufara
Molise
The castle, built by the Longobards on a tufaceous rise of modest dimensions, originally had to serve to the military surveillance of the territory. With a quadrangular plan, it was rather small but of considerable strategic importance because it was located on the road linking Apulia and the Duchy of Benevento, near the Celano-Foggia sheep-track. Subsequent enlargements were made by Decio Crispano, who in the 16th century obtained the castle and the feud as an inheritance. It assumed then a strange shape, defined by some historians as "bean-shaped". In this way the structure also lost the typically feudal characteristic of fortress to assume that of residential castle.
Architecture
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
St. Nicholas Church
Albania
The church of Saint Nicholas (or Shen Kolli in Albanian) is the most complete monument among the five basilicas of Voskopoja. It is situated at the ce...
History and tradition
Architecture
Religious sites
Kamenica Tumulus
Albania
The Kamenica Illyrian tumulus is the city of Korca is one of the most attractive burial places in the Balkans. The skeleton of an Illyrian women carry...
History and tradition
Geological sites
St. John The Baptist Monastery
Albania
St. John the Baptist Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in Voskopoja. The Monastery is the oldest ecclesiastical building at Voskopoja. The ch...
History and tradition
Architecture
Religious sites