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: 59 articles · 1,243 heritage places · 13 events · 26 itineraries · 2 road-books · 4 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Between the wars, Italian architects including Giuseppe Terragni and Marcello Piacentini developed rationalist design emphasizing simple, functional forms. The movement, organized through the Group 7 and later MIAR, synthesized international modernism with classical principles.
Excavations at Monte San Calogero in Sicily have uncovered evidence of wine dating to 6000 BCE, making it the oldest known in Europe and challenging established views of prehistoric culture.
A 2019 Nomisma study commissioned by Fondazione Carisbo examined how cultural investment drives economic growth, using Bologna’s museum network as a case study.
ABCOnlus introduced a free online platform in 2019 to connect cultural and creative enterprises with available venues across Italy, supporting economic recovery through cultural initiatives.
ABCOnlus established the Cultural Heritage Observatory in January 2019 to connect over 12,000 Italian creative and cultural enterprises across audiovisual, film, publishing, design, music and arts sectors.
In January 2019, the Cultural Heritage Observatory launched by ABCOnlus brought together over 12,000 Italian cultural and creative professionals across audiovisual, film, publishing, design, music and arts sectors.
Italy’s monthly free-admission museum initiative reaches capacity but lacks structured programming, cultural pathways, and sustainable tourism planning.
In December 2018, researcher Veronica Ramos launched #heritagepertutti, a hashtag campaign designed to make historical research and cultural heritage accessible to the general public through shared images and collective interpretation.
The Fondazione FS has digitized over 3,000 technical drawings of locomotives and rail vehicles designed between the 1850s and 1970s, now accessible through its online archive.
Italy’s FS Foundation preserves over 10,000 architectural drawings and hundreds of photographs documenting railway infrastructure design from the 1930s to 1970s.
