Ferragosto in Florence 2026: A Visitor’s Survival Guide
Florence on 15 August: the Assumption in Santa Maria del Fiore, gardens and Medici villas against the heat, and the hill viewpoints locals keep for evening.
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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: 61 articles · 1,304 heritage places · 14 events · 29 itineraries · 5 road-books · 327 photographs
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
Ferragosto in Rome 2026: A Visitor’s Survival Guide
Rome on 15 August: which ancient sites and churches stay open, where to escape the heat, and where Romans themselves go. A practical Ferragosto 2026 guide.
Ferragosto 2026 in Italy: What’s Open, What’s Closed, and Where Locals Actually Go
Ferragosto falls on Saturday 15 August in 2026. What the holiday means, which museums and sites stay open, what closes, and where Italians actually spend the day.
Kulangsu (Gulangyu), Xiamen — a Historic International Settlement
The car-free island of colonial villas facing Xiamen, run from 1902 as an international settlement of thirteen nations — Italy’s small consulate among…
Palazzo d’Italia, Rockefeller Center, New York
The Italian wing of Rockefeller Center (1935): Piccirilli’s fascist-flavoured glass panel was boarded over days after Pearl Harbor and replaced in 1965…
Skanderbeg Square and the Ministries, Tirana
Tirana’s central square, framed by the ochre neo-Renaissance ministries of the Brasini-Di Fausto plan of 1925 and onwards.
Massawa–Asmara Cableway (Teleferica) — dismantled
The 71.8 km Massawa-Asmara cableway (1935-37, Ceretti & Tanfani) was the longest in the world at its completion, lifting 30 tonnes an hour from the Red…
Uaddan Hotel and Casino, Tripoli
Florestano Di Fausto’s 1935 hotel-casino on the Tripoli waterfront, with its 500-seat theatre and white domes: the “Waldorf Astoria of Tripoli”, restored…
Tripoli International Fair (Fiera di Tripoli)
Created by the Italian government in 1927 as the showcase of colonial Libya, the Tripoli International Fair is the oldest trade fair in Africa, still…
Gondar: the Italian-Era New Centre (1936–1941)
The modernist piazza district Italian planners built at Gondar in 1936–41 to Gherardo Bosio’s plan, beside the castles of Fasil Ghebbi.