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.
Tirana (1939–1942): the grand hotel Gherardo Bosio built on the new boulevard during the Italian occupation, with furnishings by Gio Ponti — later the bugged hotel of the socialist state, now the Bank of Albania.
From Hazzard County to the Star Wars deserts and the Tomb Raider temple: six real heritage places you can visit that are also famous film and television locations.
Ten heritage sites in one summer loop through the Greek mainland — the Acropolis, Mycenae, Epidaurus, Mystras, Olympia, Delphi, Meteora, Vergina and Byzantine Thessaloniki — with a drivable route, GPX and a note on the islands.
Six real heritage places you can visit that are also famous film and TV locations, from Hazzard County to the Star Wars deserts.
Ten heritage sites in one summer loop through the Greek mainland: the Acropolis of Athens, then down into the Peloponnese
Eritrea (1887–1932): the 950 mm narrow-gauge railway that climbs 2,394 metres from Massawa on the Red Sea to Asmara, built under Italian colonial rule and rebuilt, after the war, by Eritreans themselves.
Ten Spanish heritage cities in one September loop — Barcelona to Granada via Tarragona, Zaragoza, Madrid, Segovia, Ávila, Toledo, Córdoba and Seville — timed for the region-by-region Heritage Days of autumn 2026, with mapped route and GPX.
Ten heritage cities in one September loop: modernista Barcelona, Roman Tarragona and the Mudéjar Aljafería of Zaragoza in the north-east;
Italy’s interwar sea produced the fastest liner in the world — the Rex, Blue Riband 1933, sunk 1944 — and a deliberately archaic sailing ship, the Amerigo Vespucci of 1931, still in service today.
The naval shipyard on the Bay of Naples launched the Amerigo Vespucci on 22 February 1931. She is still the Italian Navy’s training ship — the interwar work that never became a monument because it never stopped working.
