Daily Travel Photo – Rome, Italy
This sculpture is of the severed head of John the Baptist by Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj. It is housed in the Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri (Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs) in Rome.
UNESCO World Heritage Site #70: Historic Centre of Florence
From the World Heritage inscription: Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), the [...]
