Few churches in Rome hide their masterpiece quite so unassumingly. San Pietro in Vincoli sits on the Esquiline Hill, its simple brick facade giving no hint of the artistic treasure waiting inside. Visitors come for one thing: Michelangelo’s Moses, carved from a single block of Carrara marble. The prophet sits with horns on his head, […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Religious Monuments, Rome, Sights, Sights, Virtual Travel
The longest Gothic cathedral in Europe stretches over 170 metres from its west front to the eastern Lady Chapel, a testament to the ambition and faith of its medieval builders. Winchester Cathedral is one of the greatest churches in the world, a repository of over a thousand years of English history. It was here that […]
Categories: Religious Monuments, Sights, Sights, United Kingdom