Italia Storia Monumenti Cultura - visita virtuale alle cittàitaliane

Mission:

Our site intends to give to the tourist the possibility to understand the Italian artistic patrimony in relation with its history. To carry out this project we propose three fundamental targets:

To represent history through the evolution of power on Italian territory.
To propose the visit of monuments as testimony of history.
To explain culture as stimulus and expression of the shapes of power in Italian history.

To explain the dynamics history-art-culture, we propose you a history of Italy, from the origins to its unification. This history will give you the bases to introduce you to our site. You can access to our Italian history clicking on the following links:

I. The Etruscans

II. The Romans

III. From Middle Ages to Communes

IV. From the Signorie to Illuminism

V. From the conquest of Italy to Italy today

		: the city began to develop itself in the late Middle Ages, when Its enterprising merchants transformed the city in the "Wall Street" of time. Florence achieved its apogee with the political ability of aristocratic families, above all the Medici...
		: the city developed itself in Communal Age. In this Age were built the Civic Palace, the imposing Tower of Mangia, and the Cathedral. To Siena grandeur contributed above all the skilful bankers who traveled in all European fairs of time...
		: the city began to develop itself as Marine Republic. Venice was for some centuries (until the discovery of America) the biggest marine power in Europe. We can sill admire this glorious past in the beutiful monuments that stud the city...
		: Before Spanish subjugation at the end of XVI century, the Dukedom of Milan was one of the hegemonic powers in Italian peninsula. The splendor of the city still brings with itself the name of great families, such as Visconti and Sforza...
		: the city has never been one of the hegemonic states of peninsula, but the ascent of powerful Gonzaga family gave to the city the splendor that today we can still admire in the Ducal Palace, in the Church of S.Andrea and in the small town Sabbioneta...
		: The city is a strategic center in the North of Italy, for this reason it was often competed. Verona was an important center for Veneti, after then for the Romans; in the Middle Ages Verona ibecame a powerful commune, but it achieved its grandeur with the Scaligeri family…
		: Ancient Etruscan city, after then roman, in the Middle Ages Perugia became a powerful commune, center of aristocratic families. Because of its nearness to Rome, Perugia had to lose its independence, but without losing its importance…
		: the city became an important strategic center with the Montefeltro Dukes. The famous duke Federigo from Montefeltro left us the Ducal Palace, an architectonic jewel...
		: Rome was the capital of the Roman empire and then the capital of Papal State. The visit to the city is maybe the better ways to understand the entire Italian history. The city is still today a center of spiritual and temporal power…
		:Ravenna was the capital of Italy under the Ostrogothan reign of Teoderico, then it became the capital of the Byzantine Esarcato. Today we can still find the traces of this Byzantine influence, above all in its splendid mosaics…
		: Bologna born as ancient Etruscan city (Felsina), then it developed itself in communal age, when it was the center of the most ancient European University. In Renaissance the city became the desire of popes that made the city a province of the Roman State…
		: The city knew its splendor in medieval age, when the Tyrrhenian coasts were near the city, so Pisa became a marine power. Later on, the city gravitated in the orbit of Florence, but it remained an important religious center…