Liberty Cinema, Mumbai
Independence’s own picture palace – named for freedom in 1949, a streamline fantasy of etched glass and teak where Bollywood’s golden age premiered.
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Luigi De Marchi
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: 4 articles · 1,209 heritage places · 8 itineraries · 2 road-books
101 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Tai Kwun (Central Police Station), Hong Kong
The Big Station – police barracks, magistracy, and Victoria Prison of the colonial century, reborn as Hong Kong’s heritage-and-arts citadel.
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Castries
The largest church of the Caribbean – iron-framed against hurricanes, painted within by Dunstan St Omer in the islands’ boldest sacred murals.
Fort George, Grenada
The French fort above the Caribbean’s prettiest harbour – and the courtyard where Maurice Bishop’s execution in 1983 triggered the American invasion.
Nelson’s Dockyard, Antigua
The Royal Navy’s Caribbean home port – the only continuously working Georgian dockyard in the world, UNESCO-listed with the slave-built genius of its harbour.
Fort Charlotte, Kingstown
The fort whose cannon point inland – built against the Garifuna, not the French, above Kingstown’s harbour and the Grenadines’ sail-strewn horizon.
Fort Shirley, Cabrits, Dominica
The garrison reclaimed from the jungle – site of the 1802 revolt of the 8th West India Regiment that helped win free status for the empire’s Black soldiers.
Queen’s Staircase and Fort Fincastle, Nassau
Sixty-six steps hewn through solid limestone by enslaved workers – Nassau’s gorge of memory climbing to the paddle-wheel fort above the town.
Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho
The Mountain at Night – Moshoeshoe’s unconquered plateau where the Basotho nation was forged and its kings still rest.
Gishora Drum Sanctuary, Burundi
The hill of the sacred drums – where the ritual drummers of Burundi, UNESCO-honoured, keep the kingdom’s heartbeat over the thousand hills.