When Mirror US writer Vita Molyneux and her brother planned their Italian vacation, they were after a unique experience. For ...

is often “eclipsed by its more impressive neighbours” but offers an “authentic” experience “medieval city walls, lots of pretty canals, narrow cobbled streets and frescoed churches”.

Some 200 buildings—reflecting Byzantine, French Gothic and Italian Renaissance ... Two miles of walls, as well as a moat, protected the city. "There are very few medieval walled cities in ...