Twenty-eight years of cultural heritage, now opening its archive to a chosen circle of partners.
Cultural Heritage Online is an editorial platform documenting Italian and European heritage since 1998. The Founding Partner Program invites historic venues, galleries, and cultural operators outside the United States to become part of a deeper narrative — a venue connected to its places, its routes, its events, and the editorial archive its audience is already reading.
Built on twenty-eight years of indexed heritage content — places, events, and thematic itineraries documented continuously since 1998.
Structured around place-cards, editorial features, and curated maps — not a directory, not a media kit.
Audience grown organically, without paid advertising, around Liberty, Art Nouveau, Belle Époque and adjacent fields.
Your venue has history. Online, it still looks like a simple listing.
Google Maps shows a pin. Booking platforms show rooms. Social platforms show isolated posts. None of these were built to communicate why a place matters within a longer arc of cultural geography.
For a venue whose value is partly architectural, partly biographical, partly contextual, the standard discovery layer flattens the most interesting things into the most generic format: a single bullet inside a list of look-alike listings.
- 01 Your story is fragmentedScattered across Booking, TripAdvisor, Maps, Instagram — none of them connected.
- 02 Your location lacks cultural contextA pin in isolation, with no link to the heritage that surrounds it.
- 03 Your events disappear after the date passesNo archive of past programming. No memory the audience can revisit.
- 04 Your visibility depends on platforms not built for heritageDistribution rules optimised for transactions, not cultural relevance.
CHO builds a cultural ecosystem around your venue.
For each partner, we construct a structured editorial and geographic presence anchored to the existing archive. This is not banner placement. It is a small set of carefully curated, fact-checked, source-cited objects connected to one another: place-card, route, event, editorial feature.
Readers who arrive looking for a Liberty villa, a heritage walking itinerary, a thematic map, or a long-form article find your venue inside the same context — not adjacent to it, but woven through it.
- A dedicated place-card for your venue inside the archive
- A curated map of nearby points of interest within walking radius
- A thematic route connecting your venue to related heritage
- An editorial guest feature optimised for SEO and GEO discovery
- Contextual links between venue, place, route, and event
- Organic distribution through the Facebook community and CHO page
after you join
The first ninety days, in five movements.
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Venue review
An editorial brief — fifteen minutes by call or in writing — to establish the cultural angle, key dates, attributions, and the architectural or biographical claims we will document.
Week 1 -
Territory mapping
We identify nearby places of heritage value within walking radius — palazzos, museums, smaller buildings the standard guides omit — and prepare the thematic route that connects them to your venue.
Weeks 1–2 -
Content setup
We produce the place-card, the route, and the editorial guest feature. All claims sourced. All images Wikimedia, licensed, or supplied by you. Fact-check protocol identical to our own editorial pieces.
Weeks 2–4 -
Partner visibility goes live
Publication on culturalheritageonline.com, submission to Google Search Console, and one organic distribution post on the Facebook community and CHO page. No paid amplification.
Week 4 -
Quarterly review
A short written report — what was published, what was read, what changed in search visibility. No vanity metrics. Direct support channel for content updates throughout the year.
Quarterly
and after
From a listing to a cultural position.
Isolated. Fragmented. Forgettable.
- One listing among hundreds, indistinguishable by format.
- A generic map pin with no surrounding heritage context.
- An event mention disconnected from the venue’s history.
- No lasting narrative — programming evaporates after the date.
- Visibility entirely dependent on platforms not built for heritage.
Anchored. Contextual. Persistent.
- A place-card inside an archive that has been read for twenty-eight years.
- A thematic map that connects your venue to nearby heritage.
- An editorial feature optimised for SEO and AI search engines.
- An event memory and a place timeline that persist beyond the date.
- Premium partner positioning — curated, not crowded.
For venues where the building is part of the story.
i.
Historic hotels & boutique stays
Properties inside listed buildings, palazzi storici, Liberty villas, restored aristocratic residences.
ii.
Galleries & house museums
Private galleries, foundations, and house museums with permanent or rotating cultural programming.
iii.
Heritage cafés & restaurants
Caffè storici, restaurants inside or adjacent to listed buildings, venues with documented archival continuity.
iv.
Cultural venues & event spaces
Theatres, music venues, exhibition halls, and event spaces inside historic architecture.
v.
Private museums & operators
Private museums, destination operators, and selected local promoters working on a heritage angle.
If your venue lives inside a place with cultural value, CHO can turn that context into discoverable relevance.
Early partners receive permanent advantages the later cohorts will not.
Priority onboarding
Editorial brief booked within seven days of acceptance. First publication within four weeks. Direct line to Luigi De Marchi during rollout.
Founder pricing
The first five to ten partners in each launch market hold founder rates indefinitely. Pricing in subsequent intakes will be revised upward.
Early premium positioning
First placement inside the new thematic maps as territories open. Editorial features prioritised in the upcoming Liberty Grand Tour rollout.
Direct support during rollout
Quarterly review with written report. Content updates included throughout the year. No ticketing system, no automated bot — written and human-reviewed.
Inclusion in the first wave
Listed in the inaugural international roster. Cited in press communications announcing the Founding Partner cohort across launch markets.
First month refundable
If we do not deliver the publication and the agreed deliverables within the first month, the fee is fully refundable. Stated in writing on the invoice.
A small, deliberate cohort — composed and quietly built, not advertised at scale.
Three tiers. Annual subscriptions. USD primary, EUR on request.
Liberty Starter
B&B · Independent guide · Small gallery
per year
- 10 place-cards of nearby heritage points
- One dedicated map with the partner venue at centre
- One editorial guest post — SEO & GEO optimised
- Fact-check protocol identical to in-house editorial
- Quarterly written review
Liberty Partner
Historic hotel · Boutique property · Gallery
per year
- 20 place-cards of nearby heritage points
- Dedicated thematic map with thematic route
- Three editorial guest posts across the year
- Heritage Partner tab — “Stay” or “Dine” — for 12 months
- Distribution on Facebook Wall, CHO page, newsletter
- Quarterly written review
Liberty Legacy
Boutique chain · Foundation · Institution
per year
- Everything in Partner, plus —
- Category exclusivity in your zone (1–5 km radius), for one specific category — e.g. the sole boutique heritage hotel listed within 5 km of a named monument
- Monthly AI-assisted reports on visibility, traffic, search context
- Priority access to new verticals as they launch (Art Deco, Belle Époque, Renaissance off-map)
- Direct line to founder
All prices in US dollars. EUR invoicing available on request. Invoiced by OASIS Tech LLC (Wyoming, USA). Stripe Payment Link or bank transfer. First month refundable if the agreed deliverables are not produced.
What protects the partner during the rollout.
Twenty-eight years of archive depth
Continuous publication since 1998. Thousands of place-cards. Indexed by region, by period, and by theme — a citation surface, not a directory.
An audience already in place
Organic Facebook community of about 838,000 members and 2.1 million views in the last twenty-eight days. No paid amplification has ever been used to inflate either figure.
Human-reviewed editorial output
Every published piece passes the same fact-check protocol as our own pieces: Treccani, beniculturali, primary institutional sources. Wikipedia is reference, not citation.
Structured rollout, written commitments
Onboarding timeline stated in writing on the invoice. First month refundable if not delivered. No ticketing system: written, named, accountable correspondence.
Sources cited, claims verifiable
Where a date is contested between sources, we say so. Where an attribution is uncertain, we say so. The result is content the institution can link from its own website without quietly correcting it later.
One named operator behind the project
Cultural Heritage Online is operated by OASIS Tech LLC, Wyoming, USA. Editorial responsibility sits with Luigi De Marchi, who has run the platform since 1998.
Frequently asked, plainly answered.
Is the platform already live?
Yes. culturalheritageonline.com has been continuously published since 1998. The Founding Partner Program is the international B2B layer added on top of an existing editorial archive — not a project waiting for first traction.
What do we receive first, and when?
An editorial brief within seven days of acceptance. A first draft of the place-card and the thematic route within two to three weeks. Publication within four weeks of brief approval. Quarterly written reviews thereafter.
Do you work outside Italy?
Yes. The Founding Partner Program is explicitly designed for European venues outside Italy. The first launch markets are Romania, Hungary, France, and the United Kingdom. The editorial language is English. Italian remains available where the audience requires it.
Do you work with US businesses?
No. Cultural Heritage Online is operated by OASIS Tech LLC, a US entity. For domestic fiscal reasons, we do not accept partners based in the United States. The audience the program is built for sits in Europe and adjacent markets, and the offer reflects that.
Can you help create the content?
Yes. The Starter, Partner, and Legacy tiers include editorial production — the place-card, the route, the guest feature. We work from a fifteen-minute brief and a small set of supplied references. If you have archival material to share, we will use it; if you do not, we will source from Wikimedia, public-domain archives, and institutional sources.
What if we do not have strong visual or written materials?
It is the normal case. Most venues in the program do not arrive with a press kit. We rely on Wikimedia, public-domain photographic archives, regional cultural-heritage portals, and our own twenty-eight-year archive of imagery. Where original photography is required, we will say so and discuss it.
Is this advertising?
No. It is editorial positioning. Banner advertising buys impressions. The Founding Partner Program buys a structured, fact-checked place inside an indexed cultural archive — a place-card that lives next to the editorial features readers came to read in the first place. We do not run promotional content for venues without a documented heritage angle.
How are results monitored?
Quarterly written review covering publication status, search visibility, organic distribution impressions, and editorial updates. Liberty Legacy includes monthly AI-assisted reports. We do not promise traffic numbers in advance. We do report the numbers we have.
How is the onboarding handled — is there a sales call?
The onboarding flow is built so the venue can apply, brief, and pay in writing — no scheduled sales call required. The fifteen-minute brief can be conducted entirely in writing if preferred. For peace of mind, the first month is fully refundable if we do not deliver the agreed publication, stated in writing on the invoice.
Who owns the content produced for our venue?
The editorial article is published on Cultural Heritage Online and remains there as part of the archive. You may link to it, quote it, and reproduce excerpts with attribution. Original photographs you supply remain yours. Public-domain and Wikimedia imagery is credited at source.
Secure your place in the first international rollout.
A composed circle of partners across Romania, Hungary, France, and the United Kingdom — selected one venue at a time. Founder pricing held indefinitely. First month refundable.