Central Italy Scenes
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Toscana (Tuscany)
Firenze (Florence) - the capital of the Toscana (Tuscany) Region. The city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and was long ruled by the Medici family.View album >>
Lucca - a city in northern central Italy, and famous for its intact Renaissance-era city walls. It is located in the Toscana (Tuscany) Region.View album >>
Pisa - a city in the Toscana (Tuscany) Region, in central Italy, located on the right bank of the mouth of the Arno River on the Ligurian Sea. The city is known worldwide for its famous bell tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa.View album >>
Siena - a city in the Toscana (Tuscany) Region in north-central Italy. It is famous for the Palio, a traditional medieval horse race that is run around the Piazza del Campo each year. View album >>
Viareggio - a city located in northern Tuscany (Toscana Region), on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is known as a seaside resort.View album >>
Umbria
Gubbio - a small town located on Mt. Ingino (first slope), a mountain of the Apennines, in the northeastern part of Perugia in the Umbria Region. View album >>
Orvieto - a city in southwestern Umbria, Italy, located on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone. A labyrinth of caves and tunnels lie beneath the surface of the city. View album >>
Spoleto - an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.View album >>
Lazio
Roma - antico e moderno - scenes from ancient and modern Roma, the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio Region, as well as the country's largest and most populous city. View album >>
Roma - more antico - more scenes from ancient Roma, such as photos from Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient seaport; the bathhouses at Ostia; the Baths of Diocletian; the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri; the Memorial of the Fosse Ardeatine; the Arch of Constantine; and early Christian churches. View album >>
Roma - vaticano - scenes from the vatican in Roma (Lazio Region). The Vatican City is the world's smallest, independent, sovereign state, occupying 106 acres, surrounded by high walls watched over by the Vatican Guard.View album >>
Tivoli - scenes from Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana), a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli, Italy. Plus, Villa d’Este, masterpiece of the Italian Garden, with its impressive concentration of fountains, plays of water, and music, it constitutes a much-copied model for European gardens in the mannerist and baroque styles.View album >>
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Updated September 4, 2010
