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Pushkin Museum
Pushkin Museum - The best art galleries in the world
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the richest art collections in Russia and it is conveniently located in downtown Moscow, few steps away from Kremlin and the Red Square. Pushkin Museum is the second largest museum of foreign art in Russia after the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the largest museum of European art in Moscow. One of the most beautiful buildings in the world, Museum Pushkin in Moscow was built in 1898 at t...
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Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago - The best art galleries in the world
Art Institute of Chicago is a world-class art museum and a famous, independent school of fine arts. It was founded in 1866 and from 1868 became an arts high school in Chicago, Illinois. Institute of Arts was born as a result of the city's wealthiest citizens' initiative, which donated funds and their collections of paintings, among these there are Arthur Jerome Eddy, Bertha Honoré Palmer and Martin Antoine Ryerson. The first bu...
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Sao Paolo Museum of Art
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The largest city in South America and the third most populated one in the world, with over 10 million inhabitants, Sao Paulo is Brazil's economic capital, but also one of the most important cultural centers in the region, with numerous museums and attractions. Sao Paulo Museum of Art is a must-see destination for all those who arrive in town, even if they are not very interested or connoisseur in the domain. The museum was founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Mar...
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Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg
Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg - The best art galleries in the world
Hermitage Museum is the largest art gallery of Russia, one of the most remarkable museums in the world and certainly the main attraction in St. Petersburg. Hermitage Museum was founded as a collection of art works by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, and opened to the public in 1852. The main building of the Hermitage Museum is the Winter Palace, built by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1754-1762), in Baroque style. The first p...
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Museo del Prado in Madrid
Museo del Prado in Madrid - The best art galleries in the world
Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain features one of the greatest collections of European art from the fourteenth century until the early nineteenth century. This collection is impressive and can easily compete with what can be found in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Besides the art collection at “El Prado” (Spanish equivalent), here there is also found an impressive collection of over 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and almost 2,000 decorative objects. Sculpture is...
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Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Egyptian Museum in Cairo - The best art galleries in the world
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and is located in Cairo in Egypt. Egyptian Museum is one of the greatest museums in the world, housing the richest collection of ancient Egyptian art, among which the famous treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb, the museum's most valuable artifacts: jewelry, the gold coffin, the mask of solid gold, sandals and the young pharaoh’ gold gloves. If you are in Cairo, do not miss a visit to this museum –i...
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The British Museum in London
The British Museum in London - The best art galleries in the world
The imposing British Museum exhibits works of art created from prehistoric times up until nowadays, presenting human culture from its beginnings to the present in impressive collections that bring together masterpieces from all over the world. A museum of human history and culture, it is currently one of the largest and most comprehensive museums in the world. The museum was founded in the mid eighteenth century, in 1753, on the basis...
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York
The Museum of Modern Art in New York - The best art galleries in the world
The Museum of Modern Art, also referred to as MoMA, is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Founded in 1929 as a settlement of culture and education, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered to be the most influential museum of modern art in the world. MoMA hosts the most beautiful art work collection in the world from the 19th century up to the present, including those belonging to van Gogh, Picass...
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Uffizi Gallery
Uffizi Gallery - The best art galleries in the world
In the Italian city where Renaissance has flourished, the imposing palace of arts houses for centuries one of the richest art collections in the world. Uffizi Gallery is the largest Renaissance pinacoteca. Also, it is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.The building, originally designed in 1561 at the request of Cosimo I de Medici for the Florentine magistrates' offices, turned into a museum. Gallery owe...
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Vatican Museums
Vatican Museums - The best art galleries in the world
Vatican City is the smallest state in the world, occupying an area of only 50 hectares. The population of this state is only slightly more than 550 people, and its form of government is theocracy, headed by Papa. Inside the Vatican City there are the Vatican Museums, which are considered to be among the greatest museums in the world, with an impressive collection, where one can admire some of the world’s most renowned classical ...
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Louvre Museum in Paris, France
Louvre Museum in Paris, France - The best art galleries in the world
Louvre Museum is the most visited art museum in the world, a monument full of historical meaning and the greatest national museum of France. It is a central tourist attraction in Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the first arrondissement. Here there are displayed over 35,000 art objects dating from the 6th millennium BC and up to the nineteenth century AD. Louvre Museum is housed by Louvre palace, which was originally...
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Santa Maria del Popolo
Santa Maria del Popolo - The most beautiful churches of Italy
Santa Maria del Popolo is located in Piazza del Popolo, in the center of Rome, near the Villa Borghese Park. The church and the area got its name from the word populous, which means village, as on this place there was a village here in the Middle Ages. The interior of the church is filled with priceless works of art and it is famous due to the magnificent ceilings and murals done in Renaissance style, performed by such great masters as Pinturicchio, Raphael, Carracci, Caravaggio a...
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Basilica Santa Croce
Basilica Santa Croce - The most beautiful churches of Italy
Basilica Santa Croce is located in the very heart of Florence and it is one of the most popular tourist attractions here. It is the greatest Franciscan Gothic church in Florence, famous for its frescoes by Giotto and tombs of the greatest personalities of Italy such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Rossini. Basilica of Santa Croce is notable primarily for its architectural plan, in Gothic style, as well as its unique pieces of art kep...
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San Pietro in Vincoli
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San Pietro in Vincoli (“in vincoli”-“in chains” in Italian) was built on the ruins of an ancient temple dating from the 3rd century in 432-440 to house the relic of the chains that bound Saint Peter when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem. The Empress Eudoxia, who was the wife of Emperor Valentinian III received them as a gift from her mother, who respectively received them from Iuvenalis, bishop of Jerusalem; the former presented the chains to Pope Leo I...
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Santa Maria sopra Minerva
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The church is located in Piazza della Minerva, close to Pantheon, and it is considered the only Gothic church in Rome. Here there are the tombs of St. Catherine of Siena and great Dominican painter Fra Angelico. Founded in the seventh century, the name of the basilica comes from the fact that it was built directly over “sopra” (in Italian) the foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, but mistakenly a...
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
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Trastevere, Rome's oldest neighborhood, is one of the most beautiful areas in the city, unforgettable both during day and night visits. Located on the other side of the river Tiber, the neighborhood is one of the most picturesque of Rome, with its narrow cobbled streets lined by medieval houses. With its crooked and narrow streets, houses covered with ivy, tiny restaurants and noisy taverns, large piazzas, ice-cold water fountains and bohemian artists who fascinate you on th...
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Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura
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Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of the four churches that are the great ancient major basilicas or papal basilicas of Rome which are the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Maria Maggiore, and St. Peter and Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Unlike all the rest, it stands outside the Aurelian walls in the southern part of the Eternal City. In 1980 it entered the World Heritage List. I...
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Orvieto Cathedral
Orvieto Cathedral - The most beautiful churches of Italy
Cathedral or Duomo of Orvieto is the main attraction of the town and its most remarkable feature. The building is located in the heart of the city on a hill and it is visible from miles away. The construction of Orvieto Cathedral started in 1290, under the supervision of Pope Nicholas IV. The construction was attended by 33 architects, of which the most important is Lorenzo Maitani, 150 sculptors, 70 painters and 90 specialists in mosaic. Sculptural works show scenes from the Old ...
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Basilica of St. John Lateran
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The Papal Archbasilica of St. John Laterano or Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano in Italian is the cathedral of the Church of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. It is the oldest and ranks first among the four Papal Basilicas or major basilicas of Rome. It has the title of ecumenical mother church -mother church of the whole inhabited world -among Roman Catholics; this means that in the Catholic hierarchy, this church is ...
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Siena Cathedral
Siena Cathedral - The most beautiful churches of Italy
Siena is one of the most beautiful cities in Tuscany. Surrounded by orchards, olive groves and vineyards, the city is going back into Italy's medieval past. According to historical documents discovered by archaeologists, the city was founded by the Romans in 30 AD. One of the most beautiful attractions here is the cathedral, or duomo. With an impressive height, the cathedral attracts through the successful combination of marble both outside...
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Certosa di Pavia
Certosa di Pavia - The most beautiful churches of Italy
Milan's beauty is already legendary, but there is another tourist attraction in its area that adventurous tourists should not miss: Certosa di Pavia. Certosa is a 14th century monastery. The gothic architecture of the monastery is extraordinary, both on the outside and inside, but what will attract your attention is the sacristy built in 1409. All cathedrals have sacristy where sacred vessels used at Holy Communion and other valuables are kept, but what makes it special for this o...
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Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore
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Designed to be the world's largest cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore is nowadays surpassed in size by St. Peter in the Vatican, St. Paul's Cathedral in London and Milan. It was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio in 1296, as the Florentines desired to have a place of prayer more beautiful than those of Pisa and Siena, rival cities; it was built on the ruins of an old church, Santa Reparata. When it was finished, it was the largest cathedral in Europe of that era, being able to accommodat...
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Valli of Porto Pino wine
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