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The former summer apartments of Palazzo Pitti are playing host(until 2nd November) to an exhibition of many of the treasures which used to be in the Chapel of the Reliquaries, on the palaceโs first floor. Founded by Maria Magdalena of Austria (wife of Cosimo II) and numbering some 1,000 pieces,…
We were off with my group from Florence to Prato, where in the cathedral there is the Chapel of the Girdle of the Virgin Maryโnot any old girdle, but the actual one that she dropped down to Thomas as she was being assumed into heaven. It is exposed on its…
On 3rd July 1908, the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier, working in the so-called โHouse 101โ, northeast of the palace of Phaistos, found an object with symbols on both sides, next to a Linear A tablet. The object became known as the Phaistos Discโand it remains as intriguing and mysterious now,…