The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply St. Peter’s Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri), is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter’s is the most renowned work of Renaissance Read more...

The Roman Forum is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.It was for centuries the center of Roman public life: the site of triumphal processions and Read more...

This landmark, located in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, was designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci. Read more...

Battery Park is a 25 acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The area and park are named for the artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city’s early years to protect the settlement behind them.HistoryThe southern shoreline of Manhattan Island had long been known Read more...

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Campo de’ Fiori is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between rione Parione and rione Regola. It is diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and one block northeast of the Palazzo Farnese. Campo de’ Fiori, translated literally from Italian, means “field of flowers”. The name dates to the Middle Ages when the Read more...