Ravenna is a city in the region of Emilia-Romagna with 153,551 inhabitants. It is the largest and historically most important city of Romagna. Size wise its municipal territory is the second largest in Italy, exceeded only by Rome, and occupies more than a third of the province. Eight monuments of Ravenna are listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list: Neonian Baptistery, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Arian Baptistry, Archiepiscopal Chapel, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Mausoleum of Theodoric, Basilica of San Vitale, and Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.

Ferrara is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region with 134,099 inhabitants. Located on the Po di Volano river, the city was an urban structure that dates back to the fourteenth century, when it was ruled by the Este family: The city plan designed by Biagio Rosetti made it the first modern city of Europe, a fact that in a large part contributed to it being acknowledged as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO for the first time in 1995 as City of the Renaissance and later in 1999 for its Po Delta and the ancient dwellings called Delizie estensi. The main monument is St. Michael's Castle, more commonly known as Estensis' Castle. It is surrounded by a moat full of water. This fact makes it, even today, the only European castle surrounded by a moat. The Palazzo della Ragione (Palace of Reason) is opposite the cathedral, built out of brick in the gothic style in 1315-1326. Not too far away we find the current campus of the University. The former campus, Palazzo Paradiso, is today home to the Biblioteca Civica Ariostea. University campus since 1391, it saw Niccolo Copernicus (1503) and Paracelsus graduate in the sixteenth century. Important humanistic centre, it accepted at the court of Este the greatest Italian poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth century, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso, as well as great painters of the time, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Cosme Tura, the famous Officina ferrarese (workshop of Ferrara), and Titian. Many works of these artists can be found today at the Pinacoteca Nazionale (National Art Gallery), housed in the Palazzo dei Diamanti (Diamonds Palace).

Urbino is a city with 15,444 inhabitants (2007) situated in the Marche region. Since 1998 its historic centre is listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Palazzo Ducale (Ducal Palace) is well known and visited by many. It is one of the most important architectural and artistic examples of the entire Italian Renaissance. La Casa di Raffaello (the native house of Raphael) is located in the namesake Via Raffaello, n.57. Here you can admire one of his juvenile fresco works, in addition to the rooms and furnishings of the house where the famous painter lived. The neoclassic style Duomo (cathedral) (architect Giuseppe Valadier) The Mausoleo dei Duchi (Mausolem of the Dukes), just outside the city walls, built by Donato Bramante in the second half of the fifteenth century as wished by Federico II , housing the tombs of Federico II and Guidobaldo I Montefeltro, dukes of Urbino. The celebrated altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, portraying the Madonna, Federico II, and some saints, was originally stored on the high altar but is now at the Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery) in Milan. The Rocca (fortress) of Sasso di Montefeltro.

Pisa is a town in Tuscany with 87,506 inhabitants. The famous Piazza dei Miracoli (Square of Miracles) is among one of the most important monuments of the city, listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Cathedral was built in marble between 1063 and 118, in a Romanesque Pisano architectural style. The characteristic Leaning Tower of Pisa stands out in the square; a freestanding bell tower, 56 meters high from the twelfth century. It started to acquire its characteristic leaning feature ten years after it was built. Today it is one of the most famous Italian monuments in the world. There are at least three leaning towers to point out: one, the most famous, in Piazza dei Miracoli; the second consisting of a bell tower of the church of San Nicola, at the opposite end of via Santa Maria, near Lungarno; the third is halfway down the Viale delle Piagge and is the bell tower of the church of San Michele degli Scalzi. Pisa is the home to three important universities: The University of Pisa, the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, as well as several research institutes. The Piazza dei Miracoli, also known as Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square), is Pisa's most important artistic and tourist centre. Among one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites since 1987, you can admire some of the masterpieces of European Romanesque architecture, namely the monuments that shape the centre of a small town's religious life, called precisely miracles for their beauty and originality: The cathedral, the baptistery, the cemetery, and the leaning tower.

Siena is a town in Tuscany with 53.893 inhabitants. The city is universally known for its artistic heritage and for the substantial stylistic blend of its urban medieval furnishings. It has been proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage of Humanity site. Siena is a path that combines the past and future. The wealth the museums of Siena offers dreams of fourteenth century Duccio di Boninsegna and the rich Siena school that he took on to develop and still the work of Iacopo della Quercia, Francesco di Giorgio, Beccafumi, and Sodoma. This richness belongs to the whole territory. It is very famous for its characteristic Palio lived and heard by the entire community of its people. .

AAssisi (26,946 inhabitants) is a city in the region of Umbria located on the west side of Mount Subasio. It is known as the city where patron saint of Italy St. Francis and St. Clare were born, lived, and passed away. Its medieval art masterpieces, such as the Basilica of San Francesco and paintings by Cimabue, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, and Giotto, have made Assisi a fundamental reference point for the development of Italian and European art and architecture. Assisi represents a unique example of continuity of a city-sanctuary within its environmental position from its Umbrian-Roman and medieval origins to this day, represented in the cultural landscapes, the religious bodies, systems of communication, and the traditional land-use. Being the birthplace of the Franciscan religious order, Assisi since the Middle Ages has been closely associated with the cult and spreading of the Franciscan movement throughout the world, focusing on a message of peace and tolerance even to other religions.

Caserta is a city with about 80,000 inhabitants. It is famous all over the world for the magnificent Reggia (Royal Palace) built in the eighteenth century by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli. The municipality is composed of the capital and many small districts, among which San Leucio, famous for its silk and the Belvedere Palace, and the medieval village Caseravecchia. The Reggia of Caserta, or Royal Palace of Caserta, is a historic residence belonging to the royal family of the Borbone di Napoli dynasty, proclaimed World Heritage of Humanity Site by UNESCO. Located in the municipality of Caserta, it is surrounded by a vast park where two sections are identified: The Italian garden and the English garden. The complex of the royal palace, with its gardens that are about 2.5 km long, is one of the largest in Europe. On the west side of the palace is the church of San Francesco di Paola. It is part of a complex that at one time was a convent of the Frati Minimi, the order of Francescan monks, founded in 1605 by Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, and today is a military hospital. Pope Benedict XIII stayed here in 1727 and Luigi Vanvitelli is buried here. In the latter case, however, it has not been established with certainty where the actual burial place is in the church.