Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

Built in the 12th century under Norman rule, it boasts Italy's largest Byzantine-style mosaics, second in the world only to those of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Now, this Unesco World Heritage site ...

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and cross-cultural conflicts that shaped the complex geo-political and religious context of the Early Christian and Byzantine visual culture. Detail of Empress Theodora, ca. 547, mosaic, Basilica of ...

First, he stops in the town of Ravenna, where he meets the artists who restore the famed Byzantine mosaics. Then he travels along to the Republic of San Marino.