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The figure of Medusa in art: 10 works in 10 Italian museums

The figure of Medusa in art: 10 works in 10 Italian museums

The mythological figure of the Gorgon has ancient roots. Its term comes from the ancient Greek gorgós, meaning terrible or even horrible. According to Hesiod, in his Theogony, the three Gorgons are daughters of Phorcus and Ceto. Depicted with ...
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Witch hunt: 5 places of persecution and witchcraft in Italy

Witch hunt: 5 places of persecution and witchcraft in Italy

Witch hunts marked a dark period in Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries, during which thousands of people, mainly women, were persecuted and executed for alleged links with witchcraft and the devil. This climate of terror and superstition was ...
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Renaissance Romagna: between delights and nature with sustainable hikes following the Rings of the Po

Renaissance Romagna: between delights and nature with sustainable hikes following the Rings of the Po

After the itineraries dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci and Lucrezia Borgia, Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti, the journey to discover Renaissance Romagna ends with two more itineraries, where nature is the protagonist. Starting from Ferr...
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 Five underwater archaeological parks to discover in Italy

Five underwater archaeological parks to discover in Italy

The regions of Campania, Puglia and Calabria are rich in history and beauty: these lands that were once ancient kingdoms have been submerged by the waters, ports have suffered decline, while once-vital routes have been transformed into scenery evokin...
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In Aragon in the footsteps of Goya, from Fuendetodos to Zaragoza.

In Aragon in the footsteps of Goya, from Fuendetodos to Zaragoza.

The largest and most famous nucleus of works by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828) is housed at the Prado Museum in Madrid: we all have in mind the Maja vestida and the Maja desnuda, Saturn devouring his ch...
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Kitzbühel, the pearl of Tyrol: what to see and do in the city of chamois

Kitzbühel, the pearl of Tyrol: what to see and do in the city of chamois

In the mountains of Tyrol lies one of the most renowned ski resorts in Europe: we are in Kitzbühel, Austria, which has been hosting Alpine Ski World Cup races since 1967. But already more than 90 years ago, the slopes of this town of about 8,000...
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The ancient Roman baths ... of England: discovering Bath

The ancient Roman baths ... of England: discovering Bath

Far north of the Alps there is anancient Roman city famous for its thermal bath s over which the same city that developed later was forever identified by its name. We are in Bath (which in English really means "bath"), England, and the Roman Baths se...
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Christmas in Romagna: must-see events from Rimini to Ferrara

Christmas in Romagna: must-see events from Rimini to Ferrara

Romagna dresses up in anticipation of Christmas and the New Year and concludes 2023 with many initiatives under the sign of art and culture, including exhibitions, guided tours and great concerts. An opportunity to admire monuments, palaces, churches...
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Renaissance Romagna: Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti in Rimini and the Ravenna Renaissance.

Renaissance Romagna: Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti in Rimini and the Ravenna Renaissance.

We continue the series of articles that have led you to discover Renaissance Romagna with two more itineraries promoted by Visit Romagna, aimed at getting to know places among art, nature and culture in the provinces and municipalities of Romagna lin...
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A marble labyrinth on the floor of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.

A marble labyrinth on the floor of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.

It is of a predictable and disarming naturalness to find oneself wandering among the sights of Ravenna and carrying one's nose upward, tangling one's gaze among the golden mosaics until one arrives, more or less morbidly, at the highest point where t...
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Cleopatra's pool at Hierapolis-Pamukkale: bathing in the ancient baths

Cleopatra's pool at Hierapolis-Pamukkale: bathing in the ancient baths

Bathing inside one of the oldest hot springs in existence, exactly the way we bathed hundreds of years ago. We are in Turkey but we evokeEgypt and the Romans. Let's talk about what is called by all the "Cleopatra's Pool," the pharaoh who in the heigh...
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Budapest spas, which ones to visit: 10 baths not to be missed

Budapest spas, which ones to visit: 10 baths not to be missed

If you are getting ready to take a trip to relax a bit, not too far away and maybe spending the right amount, this is the time to go to Budapest. Which on Nov. 17, 2023, celebrated 150 years of its unified administrative identity. The capital ofHunga...
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Renaissance Romagna: on the trail of Leonardo da Vinci and Lucrezia Borgia

Renaissance Romagna: on the trail of Leonardo da Vinci and Lucrezia Borgia

We begin today a series of articles that will take you on a discovery of Renaissance Romagna: six itineraries through the provinces and municipalities of this territory, between art and nature, where some of the most important seigniories of the Rena...
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Bayreuth is not just Wagner. A fully preserved court opera house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Bayreuth is not just Wagner. A fully preserved court opera house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The city of Bayreuth, in northern Bavaria, is known to be the city of Richard Wagner, not because he was born there (he was in fact born in Leipzig), but because the famous composer spent the last ten years of his life here and because he elected it ...
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Saxony: did you know that it shares its two UNESCO sites with two other countries?

Saxony: did you know that it shares its two UNESCO sites with two other countries?

Interestingly, the only two Unesco World Heritage sites in Saxony, an eastern German federated state, share a common feature: each Unesco site is in fact shared with another country. In fact, Muskau Park is located partly in Germany and partly in Pol...
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Germany and its UNESCO sites: which ones to celebrate in 2023/2024

Germany and its UNESCO sites: which ones to celebrate in 2023/2024

Ranking third in number of UNESCO sites after Italy and China, Germany has as many as fifty-one sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, forty-eight of them cultural and three natural. The first to enter the prestigious List was Aachen Cathedral w...
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Aqueduct Park in Rome, what to see: 8 places

Aqueduct Park in Rome, what to see: 8 places

The Park of the Aqueducts of Rome, inaugurated in 1999, is a large green lung extending over 240 hectares between the Appio Claudio district, via delle Capannelle and the Rome-Cassino-Naples railway line and represents a remnant stretch of the Agro R...
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Ledro Valley, what to see: the 10 places not to miss

Ledro Valley, what to see: the 10 places not to miss

A hidden gem among the mountains of Trentino, the Ledro Valley, which surrounds the lake of the same name, is a destination known for its natural beauty and rich historical heritage. The crystal-clear waters of Lake Ledro, amid lush forests and lush ...
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Val di Fassa, what to see: 10 places not to be missed

Val di Fassa, what to see: 10 places not to be missed

The Val di Fassa, located in the heart of the Dolomites, is a jewel set among majestic peaks, beautiful mountain landscapes and a rich cultural tradition, being part of Ladinia, the land, between Trentino Alto-Adige and Veneto, where the Ladin langua...
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Unusual and little-known Sardinia: 10 places to discover

Unusual and little-known Sardinia: 10 places to discover

Hidden among the turquoise waves of the sea and sculpted by the strong wind, stands wild and guardian of raw legends, the island of Sardinia. A land, this one, that possesses an untamed beauty, where the waves crash with unprecedented force against t...
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Venosta Valley, what to see: the 10 places not to be missed

Venosta Valley, what to see: the 10 places not to be missed

Famous for its apples, its mountains and the variety of its landscapes, the Vinschgau Valley is one of the most popular tourist destinations inSouth Tyrol, all year round: in winter its ski resorts are crowded, while in summer it is possible to indul...
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Renaissance in Romagna: on the trail of Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti between Rimini and Ferrara

Renaissance in Romagna: on the trail of Piero della Francesca and Leon Battista Alberti between Rimini and Ferrara

To follow in the footsteps of two great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance such as Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca in order to explore in Romagna the historical-artistic and intellectual heritage that these artists left us: this ...
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At Faenza's Pinacoteca, the most important art collection in Romagna from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

At Faenza's Pinacoteca, the most important art collection in Romagna from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

After theflooding that hitEmilia Romagna last month, in Faenza, among the cities most affected, the Pinacoteca Comunale (Municipal Art Gallery ) reopened its doors to visitors on June 9, thus continuing its primary goal of making its important art co...
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Ferrara, three bike and boat routes to discover the Delights and nature

Ferrara, three bike and boat routes to discover the Delights and nature

Passionate about art, nature and maybe even cycling? Visit Ferrara leads you to discover the province of Ferrara with three new itineraries in which the natural scenery of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the bicycle and the river coexist. The Rings o...
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Street art: where to find the most beautiful murals in Romagna

Street art: where to find the most beautiful murals in Romagna

It is perhaps a little-known aspect, but the land of Romagna is rich in... street art: cities and towns are literally invaded by works of urban art created by the most famous Italian and international street artists. Here is where you can find the mo...
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Malta, itinerary in the footsteps of Caravaggio and the Order of the Knights, from Valletta to the Three Cities

Malta, itinerary in the footsteps of Caravaggio and the Order of the Knights, from Valletta to the Three Cities

In the Lives of the historiographer Giovan Pietro Bellori we read that "Caravaggio reputasi felicissimo con l'honore della Croce," referring to when the famous painter obtained the title of Knight of Malta thanks to the portrait he painted for the Gr...
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Design in Milan, what to see: 10 places of design

Design in Milan, what to see: 10 places of design

Milan, city of art, fashion, and design evolves by anticipating, stopping the moment and enhancing it, showcasing new forms that creativity has unleashed in this land or that this city has welcomed by appreciating its value. A cosmopolitan city, a ca...
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The places of Empress Sisi: an itinerary in her footsteps in Vienna

The places of Empress Sisi: an itinerary in her footsteps in Vienna

Duchess of Bavaria and later Empress of Austria, the story of Elisabeth Amalia Eugenie of Wittelsbach, better known as Sisi, has enchanted little girls and women of all generations, even if in reality her existence was not so happy with her handsome ...
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Viennale, Vienna's international film festival, kicks off. To be directed by Italian Eva Sangiorgi

Viennale, Vienna's international film festival, kicks off. To be directed by Italian Eva Sangiorgi

Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Austria's most important international film festival, turns sixty this year. In October, the festival takes place annually in the cinemas of Vienna 's historic city center and features a careful selectio...
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Autumn in Vienna, including foliage and Schoenbrunn Park

Autumn in Vienna, including foliage and Schoenbrunn Park

In a few daysautumn will begin, and what better time to enjoy the Austrian capital with its foliage? The Prater turns a thousand shades and becomes truly enchanting, and walking through Schoenbrunn Park will be an unforgettable experience. Opened to ...
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The Kunsthistorisches Museum: history and masterpieces of Vienna's most famous museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum: history and masterpieces of Vienna's most famous museum

One cannot think of seeing Vienna without a visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum. In fact, the famous museum is a must-see on a trip to the Austrian capital, not only because it is considered one of the most important museums in the world, but espec...
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Maniago's Museum of Craftsmanship and Cutlery: shared tradition becomes storytelling

Maniago's Museum of Craftsmanship and Cutlery: shared tradition becomes storytelling

Maniago, the Friulian town of about 12,000 inhabitants in the province of Pordenone, has become world-famous for its ancient tradition of making knives and all kinds of cutting implements. The beginning of the history of Maniago's blacksmiths can in ...
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Austria's most beautiful palaces and castles

Austria's most beautiful palaces and castles

From Vienna, the capital, to Lower and Upper Austria, from Carinthia to Styria, from Salzburg to Tyrol, Austria is rich in palaces and castles linked to important families and personalities. Mansions that were once the scene of the events and intrigu...
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Animals and fantastic places in Italy's museums: Puglia

Animals and fantastic places in Italy's museums: Puglia

The sixteenth leg of the journey to discover animals and fantastic places in Italian museums comes to Puglia. Centaurs, sea monsters, gorgons, satyrs, griffins and fauns in fact populate the museums of the Boot of Italy, and with this project Windows...
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The Mozarthaus: the only Viennese apartment in which Mozart lived that can still be visited

The Mozarthaus: the only Viennese apartment in which Mozart lived that can still be visited

On the occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756 - Vienna, 1791), the Mozarthaus, a permanent museum tour in Mozart's only surviving Viennese apartment, wa...
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The Esterházy family and their palace in Eisenstadt, a Baroque masterpiece of Austria

The Esterházy family and their palace in Eisenstadt, a Baroque masterpiece of Austria

Among Hungary's oldest noble families, the Fraknó princely branch of the Esterházy dynasty began with Nikolaus Esterházy (Galanta, 1583 - Großhöflein, 1645). A convert from Calvinism to Catholicism, he was one of the g...
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San Marino, what to see: 10 places not to miss in the Republic of Titan

San Marino, what to see: 10 places not to miss in the Republic of Titan

San Marino, an independent republic a stone's throw from the Romagna Riviera. A UNESCO World Heritage Site on par with Mount Titan, the highest of the hills on which the "Most Serene Republic" stands, San Marino has a history as ancient as it is uniq...
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Not only Salzburg. Vienna also has a Mozart House.

Not only Salzburg. Vienna also has a Mozart House.

Vienna is the capital of music: many of the greatest composers of all time were born or lived in the Austrian capital, so the city offers places where music takes center stage. Inaddition to the House of Music (Haus der Musik) at 30 Seilerstät...
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The Vienna House of Music: an immersive and playful journey into the world of sound

The Vienna House of Music: an immersive and playful journey into the world of sound

At 30 Seilerstätte in Vienna is the House of Music, an innovative sound museum. Opened in June 2000, it aims to be a place that plays with music with the goal of conveying understanding and enthusiasm for it and experiencing it in its diversity....
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Val Camonica, what to see: 10 places not to be missed

Val Camonica, what to see: 10 places not to be missed

Val Camonica has always been a crossroads of people, a cradle of culture and a treasure chest of natural treasures. Val Camonica is the ancient land of the Camuni and straddles the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia. Starting from the beautiful shores ...
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Five itineraries to discover the treasures of Carnia, Friuli

Five itineraries to discover the treasures of Carnia, Friuli

Five differentitineraries to discover the places of Carnic history and tradition: PromoTurismo FVG offers a new project of Carnia tour services , the hidden treasures, led by experienced tour guides and each lasting afull day. The full day includes d...
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Esterházy Palace and the St. Margarethen Quarry: two treasures of Burgenland, Austria

Esterházy Palace and the St. Margarethen Quarry: two treasures of Burgenland, Austria

Less than an hour's drive from Vienna, in the Schlossquartier of Eisenstadt, capital of Burgenland, Austria's easternmost and flattest state, stands the imposing Esterházy Palace, one of Austria's most beautiful Baroque castles . The castle wa...
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Ukraine has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Here are what they are

Ukraine has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Here are what they are

Always a bridge between East and West,Ukraine is a country rich in centuries-old history and traditions in which different souls and cultures have always coexisted. From the capital, Kiev, to Odessa on the Black Sea or even Lviv its cities are import...
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Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait narrated by Peter Assmann

Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait narrated by Peter Assmann

Maria Lassnig's Self-Portrait concludes the series of four short videos in which the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen in Innsbruck,Peter Assmann, narrated four masterpieces preserved at the Ferdinandeum. Maria Lassnig is an Austrian arti...
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Peter Assmann narrates Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Josef Pembauer.

Peter Assmann narrates Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Josef Pembauer.

Hot on the heels of the two short videos devoted to Bernardo Strozzi's Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi andAngelika Kauffmann's Self-Portrait, Tiroler Landesmuseen director Peter Assmann discusses in another video another masterpiece preserved at the F...
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Angelika Kauffmann's Self-Portrait in the words of the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen

Angelika Kauffmann's Self-Portrait in the words of the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen

Among the eighteenth-century masterpieces housed at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck is theSelf-portrait of Angelika Kauffmann in traditional Bregenzerwald costume, a work from 1781. Among the earliest members of the Royal Academy ...
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Bernardo Strozzi's Portrait of Monteverdi narrated by the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen

Bernardo Strozzi's Portrait of Monteverdi narrated by the director of the Tiroler Landesmuseen

The Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum is Innsbruck's most important art museum, inside which the entire history of Tyrol, from the Stone Age to the present day, is housed. Masterpieces of ancient art include works by such wide-ranging authors as Remb...
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Innsbruck city of art: 5 museums to learn about art in the capital of Tyrol

Innsbruck city of art: 5 museums to learn about art in the capital of Tyrol

Austria 's fifth largest city and the capital of the Tyrol, Innsbruck is the first major Austrian center one encounters coming out of Italy via the Brenner Pass, about an hour and a half's drive from Bolzano. Its name literally means "Bridge ov...
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Where to see Andrea Mantegna's works in Italy. Journey through 11 cities

Where to see Andrea Mantegna's works in Italy. Journey through 11 cities

One of the leading artists of the Italian Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 Mantua, 1506) was long active in northern Italy and is known to have spread an antiquarian culture based on the observation and evocation of classi...
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App is born that leads to the discovery of Mauro Staccioli's sculptures in the Tuscan countryside

App is born that leads to the discovery of Mauro Staccioli's sculptures in the Tuscan countryside

Esplora Staccioli, the new app accessible through a common browser and available in both Italian and English, which allows visitors to follow the itinerary of Mauro Staccioli 's (Volterra, 1937 - Milan, 2018) sculptures, mapped and georeferenced, wi...
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Barcelona, with Airbnb you can sleep in Antoni Gaudí's Casa Vicens for 1 euro

Barcelona, with Airbnb you can sleep in Antoni Gaudí's Casa Vicens for 1 euro

Spend a night inside an Antoni Gaudí masterpiece, the Casa Vicens in Barcelona, or the first house designed by the great Catalan architect, which opened to the public in 2017. And not only that: the overnight stay will cost a symbolic one eu...
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Visiting the USA and its museums: how to apply for ESTA?

Visiting the USA and its museums: how to apply for ESTA?

Are you planning a trip to the USA to visit the most famous museums in the United States of America? The important thing is that, as soon as possible, you apply for the U.S. ESTA so that you can land or transit in the U.S. without any problem. What ...
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Aboard Dante's Train, the historic convoy from Florence to Ravenna that passes through the poet's villages

Aboard Dante's Train, the historic convoy from Florence to Ravenna that passes through the poet's villages

On the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, the Fondazione Fs Italiane has provided a historic train that will connect Florence to Ravenna with a slow route that will pass through and stop in the villages on the Fae...
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Zentrum Paul Klee, the world's largest collection of the artist in Renzo Piano's Three Hills

Zentrum Paul Klee, the world's largest collection of the artist in Renzo Piano's Three Hills

The Swiss capital, Bern, is home to the world's largest collection of works by one of the most famous artists active at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Paul Klee (Münchenbuchsee, 1879 - Muralto, 1940). Four thousand works including ...
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St. Peter's Church in Leuven, a jewel of Brabant Gothic. In 12 stages

St. Peter's Church in Leuven, a jewel of Brabant Gothic. In 12 stages

In the central Grote Markt, the central square of the city of Leuven (Leuven), in Flanders, stands the collegiate church of St. Peter (Sint-Pieterskerk), one of the greatest masterpieces of the Brabant Gothic: a monument so precious that it was dec...
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