Visit Syracuse

Once the greatest city of the Greek world — a Greek theatre, and the honey-stone island of Ortigia

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

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 walled medieval upper town above modern Bergamo — Venetian ramparts, funiculars and Lombard charm

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

Nubian Aswan’s feluccas and islands, plus the Temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the rising Nile.