Visit Bergamo

Fashion, finance and Leonardo's Last Supper — plus the most extravagant Gothic cathedral in Italy

A city built on water with no cars — gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals

The Renaissance in one walkable city: Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi's dome, and the Uffizi

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

The world's smallest state holds its biggest art: St Peter's, the Vatican Museums and the Sistine ceiling

Catch a 15-minute audience with Leonardo's fading masterpiece on a Milan refectory wall

A Renaissance court city ringed by lakes — Gonzaga palaces, Mantegna frescoes and pumpkin tortelli

Loud, ancient and alive — the birthplace of pizza, gateway to Pompeii, Vesuvius and the Amalfi Coast