The Rossano Gospels, held at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire. It contains the texts of Matthew and Mark written in fine silver and gold uncials on purple vellum [899x1339]
The Valley of the Mills (Valle dei Mulini) in Sorrento, Italy. These 13th-century flour mills, built from stone, used to have access to the sea, but construction of the Piazza Tasso in 1866 cut it off. They were abandoned in the 1940s, and greenery quickly overtook the whole valley [1920x2559]