To get your breath back, we recommend a breath of culture at the Museum of Archaeology! Have you ever visited the oldest university archaeological collection in Italy, which is now 201 years old? Have you ever seen the site of the ancient San Matteo hospital where Leonardo da Vinci investigated and drew the secrets of the human body? Here are the new summer opening hours of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Pavia: Monday 2-5pm, Wednesday 2-5pm and Thursday 9-12am.

In Duccio Venegoni’s photos, the extraordinary 15th-century cross vault of the former San Matteo Hospital, surmounted by the 18th-century dome.