A TRIP TO ITALY IS ALWAYS A TOUR
ARTISTIQUE
There are so many artistic treasures and of such
quality that to describe Italy as an open-air art
gallery in its own right is hardly an exaggeration.
No other country in the world can vaunt the same
treasures of culture and art as Italy. Indeed, half
of the world's historic and artistic assets are within
its boundaries (UNESCO).
Found almost everywhere and referring to every
historical era, they are preserved and protected
in hundreds of archaeological sites and over 3,000
museums scattered throughout the country. Tourists,
visitors and academics alike may admire and study
these remnants - large and small - of centuries gone
by.
Theatres and other buildings date back to Greek
and Roman times; whole cities, roads and districts
once buried have today been returned to the light
by patient and skilful excavations; temples, statues,
coins, inscriptions, and objects of daily use.
The imposing and often elegantly embellished Romanesque
and Gothic cathedrals - built after the eleventh
century - are found mainly in the Centre and North.
The ancient religious architecture in the southern
regions amounts instead to an enthralling crucible
of Byzantine, Muslim and Norman elements.
Renaissance art was the great cultural movement
which began in Italy in the 15th century and which
profoundly influenced the history of culture and European
civilisation as a whole.
For the arts and architecture, the Renaissance is
synonymous with masterpieces, inventive genius and
creativity.
The great Renaissance season left its magnificent
marks everywhere in Italy, not only in the great cities
like Florence, Rome, Venice,Milan and Naples but also
in many other centres of Italy's regions.
TARGET TRAVEL can arrange all kind of cultural
tours both to increase the general knowledge in Italian
culture and to discover as the first time some particular
aspects of the rich Italian cultural heritage. |
