Via Francigena: Points of interest
Cultural and natural places linked to this walk in the Appy catalogue. Check each location and description to plan your visit.
- Chiesa di S. Maria Martiri
Barrel-vaulted structural system. It connects to an older domed space via a pointed arch.
- Hospital of the Crusaders
Continuous masonry structure vaulted on pillars.
- [Palazzo in via Piazza, 59]
Building constructed with load-bearing masonry walls; the rooms are covered by barrel vaults, pavilion vaults, sloping vaults, or by floors made of iron and brick beams; the roof is flat.
- Palazzo De Prassio
Rectangular building; constructed with load-bearing masonry walls; the rooms are covered by vaults on the ground floor, with wooden floors in some cases reinforced by iron and brick beams; the roof…
- Palazzo Riganti
Building constructed with load-bearing masonry walls; the rooms are covered by barrel vaults, pavilion vaults, sloping vaults, or by new reinforced concrete floors; the roof is flat.
- Molfetta
Center of the province of Bari. It has residential, productive, artisanal, port, and religious functions.
- CHIESA DI S.AGOSTINO
Structural system with vaults and large molded pillars.
- Chiesa Santa Maria della Misericordia
The church, built with load-bearing masonry, has a single nave and a gabled roof.
- Chiesa di S. Francesco
The complex, built with load-bearing masonry, follows the typological and layout characteristics of Capuchin monastic structures.
- Palazzo Gramegna
The building consists of three above-ground floors with a quadrangular internal courtyard; a part of the building facing North-East has only two above-ground floors.
- Palazzo De Martino
The building consists of three above-ground floors, entirely constructed with load-bearing masonry, and is articulated in two bodies of the building, one of which is slightly set back.
- Palazzo Griffi
The building, characterized by squared and slightly bush-hammered stone blocks, consists of two separate bodies of the building connected by a boundary wall at the height of the ground floor: the…
- Palazzo Lupis
The building is the result of the merging and modification of various constructions made in different periods.
- Palazzo Zurlo
The building develops over two above-ground floors, with the first floor being significantly higher than the ground floor.
- Palazzo Paglia
The palace, built with load-bearing masonry, develops over two above-ground floors and has a rectangular internal courtyard; at the back, one volume has an additional floor.
- Torre delle Pietre Rosse
The tower develops over three above-ground floors, originally accessible by a ladder that reached the roof level. It features a double masonry, one internal and one external.
- Palazzo Spinelli
Palazzo Spinelli-Sagarriga is located in the historic center of Giovinazzo, built between the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Juvenatium
Center of the province of Bari. It has residential, productive, artisanal, assistance, and religious functions.
- Torchiarolo
Consolidated town characterized by natural and artificial physical boundaries, delimited by historic neighborhoods, located southeast of Brindisi.
- Chiesa della Santissima Trinità
Church, in Santhià, Italy.
- Monte Orsetto
A small wooded hill of 452 metres, known above all for prehistoric finds.
- Castle of Roppolo
Castle, in Roppolo, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Remains of crenellated wall around the garden of the rectory
Remains of the city fortifications of the village of Santhià, linear perimeter, angular portion; vertical structures in continuous masonry made of cobblestones in herringbone pattern and brick, with…
- Santuario di Santa Caterina
The house of the dyer Jacopo Benincasa, where Saint Catherine was born, now a web of porticoes, loggias, churches and oratories.
- Torre dei Forteguerri
Tower, in Siena, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Parco della Rimembranza di Siena
Rimembranza Park of Siena. Memorial park for the fallen of the First World War.
- Ex convento di Santa Chiara
Former convent of Santa Chiara. Monastery, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Palazzo Pfanner
Palazzo Pfanner is a palace and a garden in Lucca, Italy, now converted into a museum of art and artifacts.
- Palazzo Guidiccioni
Palace. The Palazzo Guidiccioni is a 16th-century urban palace located in Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.
- Palazzo Cenami, Lucca
Palace. Designed by Nicolao Civitali.
- Palazzo Guinigi
Guinigi Palace. Palace, dedicated to Guinigi, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Palazzo Orsetti
1st-century palace, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Palazzo del Decanato
Palace, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Palazzo Mazzarosa
Palace, dedicated to Mazzarosa family, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Domus Romana
21st-century museum, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage, covering 300.0 km².
- Natural History Cabinet of Liceo Machiavelli
19th-century museum, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Museo storico della Liberazione (1943-1945)
Museum of the Liberation (1943-1945). 20th-century museum, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Sant'Agostino, Lucca
Church in Gothic art style, dedicated to Augustine of Hippo, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- San Salvatore (Lucca)
Church, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Santa Maria Corteorlandini, Lucca
12th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Mary, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- San Cristoforo, Lucca
11th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Saint Christopher, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- San Michele in Foro
Church in Romanesque style, dedicated to Archangel Michael, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- San Benedetto in Gottella, Lucca
Church, dedicated to Benedict of Nursia, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Sant'Andrea (Lucca)
Church, dedicated to Andrew the Apostle, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Sant'Anastasio
Church, in Lucca, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
- Urban Walls of Lucca
The Renaissance walls consist of a body of compacted earth (terrato) faced on the outer side with a sloping brick parapet that becomes vertical at its apex.
- Visconti Castle
14th-century gothic architecture castle. Designed by Bartolino da Novara.
- Castello Visconteo
Visconti Castle. Castle, in Pavia, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.
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