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: 71 articles · 1,250 heritage places · 12 events · 30 itineraries · 5 road-books · 334 photographs
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
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.
Archaeologists discovered a remarkably preserved ancient Greek merchant vessel at 2,000 metres depth in the Black Sea, possibly matching Homer’s description of Ulysses’ ship.
Presented in November 2018, China’s Xinhua news agency and search engine Sogou introduced an artificial intelligence news anchor capable of reading broadcasts with human-like facial expressions and gestures.
A major storm struck the Belluno province in Veneto in late October 2018, destroying forests, infrastructure, and tourism projects across multiple valleys. Local officials described the damage as catastrophic and nearly impossible to recover.
