The Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze, or “Gallery of the Academy of Florence”, is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is the home of Michelangelo’s sculpture David. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a collection of Renaissance paintings. It adjoins the Accademia di Belle Arti or academy of fine arts of Florence, but despite the name has no Read more...

The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore was founded in 1296 by the Florentine Republic, with the participation of the city’s church authorities, to supervise the construction of the new cathedral and its belfry. After the consecration of the church (25 March 1436) and the completion of the architectural structure, the main task of the Opera became to preserve and Read more...

Millions of visitors from all over the world marvel at the spectacular 360-degree views of New York City and beyond from its open-air 86th Floor Observatory and climate controlled 102nd Floor Observatory from 8 a.m. until 2 a.m. While at the building, be sure to visit the interactive Sustainability Exhibit in the 2nd floor Visitor’s Center to learn about the Read more...

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo.It is a 5.17m marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end Read more...

The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, commonly known as the cathedral of Florence, is the main church in Florence, symbol of the city and one of the most famous in Italy and the third largest church in the world. Read more...

The Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the fifth-largest cathedral in North America, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark. It is located at 89 Ridge Street in the Lower Broadway neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Envisioned as a “fitting monument to the faith,” construction began in 1899 and was finished in 1954. The original design called Read more...