Ravenna, Assisi & Urbino: Three Italian Masterpieces
Few clusters of Italian towns demonstrate so eloquently the depth and continuity of Italian civilisation as Ravenna, Assisi and Urbino. Between them they span more than a millennium of artistic and spiritual endeavour, from the shimmering Byzantine mosaics of late antiquity to the Franciscan monuments of the medieval age, and on to the refined magnificence of the Renaissance court. Each town is remarkable in its own right; together, they trace an arc of human creativity that is without equal.
