Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 61 articles · 1,262 heritage places · 21 events · 29 itineraries · 5 road-books · 302 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Italy’s interwar sea produced the fastest liner in the world — the Rex, Blue Riband 1933, sunk 1944 — and a deliberately archaic sailing ship, the Amerigo Vespucci of 1931, still in service today.
The naval shipyard on the Bay of Naples launched the Amerigo Vespucci on 22 February 1931.
Three surviving sites of the Atlantic formation flights of 1930–1933, from the Tuscan lagoon where the fleets trained and departed
Twice in three years, formations of S.55 flying boats left the Orbetello lagoon to cross an ocean: Rio in 1931, Chicago and back in 1933. A memorial park in Tuscany and a contested Roman column on the Chicago lakefront still mark the route.
An ancient Roman column from Ostia on Chicago’s lakefront, sent by Mussolini’s government in 1934 to commemorate the 1933 formation flight.
The Tuscan lagoon base from which Balbo’s formations left for Rio in 1930 and Chicago in 1933.
Ten French heritage cities in one September loop — Paris to Bordeaux via Reims, Nancy, Strasbourg and Albi — timed for the Heritage Days of 19–20 September 2026, with mapped route and GPX.
Ten heritage cities in one September loop: Paris, Versailles and Rouen in the north; the coronation cathedral of Reims, royal
Every country opens its closed doors on a different September weekend. The confirmed European Heritage Days 2026 dates — England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Brussels and beyond — in one calendar.
Two stops across the European Arctic on the route both polar airships flew: the mooring mast at Vadsø, their last
