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: 63 articles · 1,291 heritage places · 13 events · 29 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.
A candle shop founded in 1761, trading behind a shopfront fitted out in 1847 for a luxury draper — the double staircase, the columns on carved figures and the chequered marble floor are all still there.
Under this square lie four thousand square metres of Roman and medieval Barcelona. Above it, in a palace carried here stone by stone, the museum keeps its doors and its clock courtyard open to anyone.
A Flatiron built for a bank, taken by the Falange, and handed to the unions in compensation: the prow at Via Laietana and Argenteria carries a circular temple on its roof.
A small square against the cathedral cloister, where a bronze group and a row of ceramic panels commemorate the Barcelonans executed in 1809 for rising against the Napoleonic occupation.
The shrapnel on the church wall is from 30 January 1938, when the square was bombed and forty-two people were killed. Much of what stands around it was carried here from other bombed streets.
A long wall of Montjuïc stone between the cathedral apse and Plaça del Rei: the palace built in 1549 for the viceroys of Catalonia, and for 140 years the home of the Archive of the Crown of Aragon.
The two round towers on Plaça Nova are what is left of the north-west gate of Roman Bà rcino, the entrance to the decumanus that is now Carrer del Bisbe.
Held on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2026 for the European Heritage Days: a free two-hour walk across the bridges of Venice, read as a maintenance problem, run by ABCO APS. Both mornings were fully booked; the route stays online to walk on your own.
Atomic oxygen borrowed from spacecraft, robots that feel the seabed, the digital memory of the camps: eight European research projects where heritage is a working laboratory.
Villa Patumbah stays open until one in the morning: guided tours, the KOSMOS ALTSTADT exhibition, workshops, and a walk through the park at midnight.
