Churches in Italy

Some say this small Italian church holds a gate to Heaven.

Hidden masterpieces in a small church in the medieval city of Bergamo.

A Nuragic tomb, a Roman tomb, and a Byzantine Church, all hidden inside a rock.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.

An elegant church is home to a remarkably detailed mosaic floor depicting the Garden of Eden.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

These 500-year-old frescoes depict the city in its glory days.

This 10th-century seaside abbey holds spectacular views and a window into the past.

Hundreds of plague victims were buried beneath this small, rural church.

Wander through a maze of empty tombs to find the poles used to hang revolutionary patriots.

Angels and demons watch over newspapers in this deconsecrated church.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary.

This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.