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Former English Embassy
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
The building housed the British embassy at the beginning of the 20th century. It was designed as a rectangular building of small dimensions in the for...
History and tradition
Architecture
Government house
Montenegro
81 250 Cetinje
The Montenegrin sovereign initiated in 1909 construction of a monumental building today known as the Government House, where the prince's governme...
Culture and Art
Architecture
Intangible heritage and craft
Centro storico di Faeto
Puglia
Faeto is a small village in the Monti Dauni of about 600 inhabitants. It constitutes, together with Celle San Vito, the only Franco-Provençal minority in southern Italy.
Villages and old cities
Intangible heritage and craft
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Location Sastavci (Remains of Depedogen Fortress, Hadzi Pasha Bridge)
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
On the plateau above the mouth of the Ribnica in Moraca are the remains of a Turkish fortress built from 1474 to 1477/8, in the time of Sultan Mehmed ...
Lakes and rivers
History and tradition
Geological sites
Osmanagic Mosque
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
It was built at the end of the 18th century by Hadzi Mehmed Pasha Osmanagic, the same one who built the Clock Tower and decorated the streets of Stara...
Religious sites
History and tradition
Njegos's birth house
Montenegro
81 255 Njegusi, Cetinje
Below the western slope of the Lovcen mountain, in a gentle field up to 900 meters above sea level, is the village of Njegusi, the birthplace of a gre...
Culture and Art
Intangible heritage and craft
Kuslev’s house and Hamam
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
This house is one of the few buildings in Podgorica with preserved authentic Balkan architecture from the first decades of the 20th century. The forme...
Culture and Art
History and tradition
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City Museum of Podgorica
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
The Museum was founded on April 8, 1950, first as a collection center for the future museum, and since 1961 as the Homeland Museum.
Culture and Art
Intangible heritage and craft
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Fortress Medun
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
On a dominant, difficult to access and somewhat elongated hill with a saddle pass, are the remains of the older, Illyrian town of Meteon and the later...
History and tradition
Culture and Art
Dioclea
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
The remains of the ancient city of Dioclea are located on a flat plateau formed between the rivers Moraca and Zeta and the stream Siralija. It was nam...
Geological sites
History and tradition
The Clock Tower
Montenegro
81000 Podgorica
The symbol of Stara Varos is the Clock Tower, one of four preserved in Montenegro. It was built in the second half of the 18th century by Hadzi Mehmed...
History and tradition
Architecture
Villa Rustica Santa Maria del Canneto Roccavivara
Molise
The rustic villa, of Roman times, is situated on the right side of the river Trigno. The villa consisted of three parts. The master's part (pars urbana) which included the house of the master, the rustic part (pars rustica) which included the rooms of the shepherds, slaves, stables for animals and the pars fructuaria to store products from agricultural activities. The main part and the rustic part were divided between them by the cell, or cellar, where currently there are the remains of terracotta barrels. In the villa were carried out agricultural activities for the production of oil and wine since the first century AD.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Religious sites
Torravecchia di Sepino
Molise
The Samnite stronghold rises in a strategic position on the Tammaro valley, on the homonymous high ground at an altitude of 953 meters.
The circuit of the walls is developed for about 1500 meters and uses, where existing, the natural defense consists of rocky spurs and overhangs. Characteristic of the walls is the double curtain wall, an external lower and the other back of about 3 meters compared to the first, between the two runs an embankment used for the path of patrol. The walls of Terravecchia, conquered in 293 BC by the Roman army led by Consul Papirio Cursore, are divided into a double wall forming a step, despite this technical expedient, which would allow the besieged a double defensive possibility, since you could deploy the soldiers in double file, one for each step, after a strenuous defense the city fell.
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Tempio Italico San Giovanni in Galdo
Molise
The Samnite sanctuary rises on the hill of Colle Rimontato, about 1.5 km north east of the town of S. Giovanni in Galdo. The center is located in a favorable position with respect to the streets of communication with Larino, Monte Vairano and, through the valley of Tappino, with the trattural route Lucera-Castel di Sangro.
Culture and Art
History and tradition
Architecture
Teatro Romano Venafro
Molise
The theater is located on the slopes of Mount St. Cross. The first plant of the building is not later than the first Augustan age: it was built with a staircase leaning against the slope of the mountain and included the ima and the media cavea, the lower parts of the staircase, separated by a semicircular passage; the scene, not yet completely brought to light, had to be rectilinear while, as a crowning, had to have a portico. The structure is in opus reticulatum with heads of the walls and ferrules of the arches in limestone blocks, according to a late-republican tradition; the architectural decoration, partly recovered, was in white marble; the walls were frescoed or covered with polychrome marble. Over time, the theater was the subject of several interventions: at a later time of the first century AD, should be attributed to an expansion, with the construction of the summa cavea, the highest part of the steps, supported by a robust system of substructures that also had the purpose of containing the land behind the theater. The technique used is the same as the reticulated work, but with elements of limestone and tuff alternating to form simple decorative motifs.
Culture and Art
Architecture
Villages and old cities
Il Conventino di Sepino
Molise
In the countryside of Sepino there is the small convent of "S. Maria degli Angeli", built like a small Portiuncula in 1871 thanks to the collaboration of brothers Giovanni and Carmine Maglieri, one of whom offered the land and most of the building material, the other offered the sum of 200 lire and thanks above all to the will of Father Anselmo from Sassinoro. On November 6, 1871, the foundations were laid and in the following year Father Anselmo began to live there sometimes with Brother Pasquale from Pontelandolfo. It grew bigger and bigger and in 1875 it already contained seven cells on the second floor and all the rooms necessary for a perfect dwelling on the second floor.
Religious sites
Villages and old cities
History and tradition
Anfiteatro Verlasce Venafro
Molise
The amphitheater of ancient Venafrum, called Verlascio or Verlasce following the vulgarization of the late antique term Perielasium (circular space), was built during the first century A.D. immediately outside the city. Preserved thanks to the overlapping of rural houses to the Roman ruins occurred during the seventeenth century, it remains perceptible the ancient volume, interrupted in three points from the access roads to the central space. There are still visible original traces of the walls in mixed work (with facings in lattice and brick) and among the most interesting materials that have emerged from the excavation there is the inscription that was reproduced on each entrance of the theater andrecalled the financial contribution made by a member of the important gens Vibia to the construction of the building.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Villages and old cities
Area sacra tempio Vastogirardi
Molise
The sacred area (temple) of Vastogirardi is a Samnite sanctuary, in the locality of S. Angelo, is located about a kilometer from Vastogirardi, in the heart of Sannio pentro. The temple was built between 130-120 BC and still used in the imperial age. Among the many materials found there are a statuette of an ox, a clay plaque depicting a nose and two eyes and numerous unguentariums in glass and terracotta that have led to speculate the existence of healing rites related to the water of the nearby spring, still called "the water of the angels".
Culture and Art
History and tradition
Architecture
Palazzo Marchesale di Ripalimosani
Molise
Commonly called Castle, even if the typology of the structure would classify it as a noble palace, the building can be considered, without any doubt, a key witness of the history of Ripese.
Built around the year 1000, it was the living quarters of the local lords who succeeded one another over the centuries and it was precisely these passages of different lordships that leave important evidence today about the "life" of the castle.
Villages and old cities
Culture and Art
Architecture
Ruderi Castello di Pesche
Molise
Like all the castle structures, also the one of Pesche, now reduced to the state of ruins, presents shreds of architectural elements that reveal a series of changes and adaptations occurred over time and that are not easily identifiable in their temporal location.
In the highest part of the inhabited area, taking advantage of the natural conformation of the rock that presents a steep descent on the western side and a less steep degradation on the opposite side, remain the signs of an apical structure that, taking up the form of an irregular pentagon, should correspond to a donjon.
Villages and old cities
Architecture
History and tradition