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: 44 articles · 1,238 heritage places · 26 itineraries · 2 road-books
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
Tripoli (from 1933): the Mellaha circuit, a 13-km lakeside racetrack with a white concrete tower and grandstands for ten thousand, where the lottery-funded Tripoli Grand Prix ran until 1940 — now under the runways of Mitiga airport.
The old Grand Tour in ten UNESCO cities, north to south — Venice, Verona, Ravenna, Florence, Pisa, Siena, Assisi, Rome, Naples and the Sassi of Matera — timed for Italy’s September Heritage Days, with a mapped route and GPX.
The old Grand Tour in ten heritage cities, north to south: Venice, Roman Verona and mosaic Ravenna in the north;
Benghazi (1929–1939): the twin-domed cathedral by Cabiati, Alpago-Novello and Ferrazza, centrepiece of Italy’s master plan for the seafront city — once among the largest churches in North Africa, now abandoned and war-damaged.
Ten heritage places in one September loop through Romania — Bucharest, Bran and Sighișoara, the painted monastery of Voroneț and the wooden churches of Maramureș, Oradea, Alba Iulia, Dacian Sarmizegetusa, Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu and Horezu — with a mapped route and GPX.
Ten heritage places in one September loop through Romania: Bucharest and the Saxon south at Bran and Sighișoara; the painted
Kos (from 1934): after the earthquake of 23 April 1933 levelled the old town, Rodolfo Petracco replanned Kos as a low Rationalist city wrapped around the ancient agora the Italians excavated — a rare town rebuilt as an archaeological park.
Rhodes (from 1926): the administrative quarter Florestano Di Fausto laid out along Mandraki harbour for Italy’s Aegean possession — the Governor’s Palace, the New Market, the post office and the cathedral, from Venetian revival to stripped Rationalism.
Ten heritage places in one September loop through Hungary — Budapest and the Danube Bend, Pannonhalma and Pécs, the Hortobágy puszta, Tokaj, Aggtelek, Eger and the Palóc village of Hollókő — with a mapped route and GPX.
Ten heritage places in one September loop through Hungary: the Danube capital of Budapest and the river bend at Szentendre
