Stories on Italian and European heritage — architecture, art, places and the people who shaped them.
Novgorod's Historic Monuments — inscribed 1992 — preserve 37 medieval churches of the Novgorod Republic (1136–1478), Russia's most democratic medieval city-state: the Kremlin's 1045…
August 2026The arch between the two islets of the Gaiola, off Posillipo — the first landmark on the crossing out of Naples. Photo: Gianfranco Vitolo,…
August 2026Albi's Episcopal City — inscribed 2010 — is dominated by the fortified Sainte-Cécile Cathedral (begun 1282, the world's largest brick cathedral, built as a…
August 2026Vigan — inscribed 1999 — is the best-preserved Spanish colonial city in Asia: 183 bahay na bato stone-and-timber merchant houses along cobblestone Calle Crisologo,…
August 2026In 1925, alongside the historic railway line skirting the Berici Hills in Vicenza, industrial pioneer Ernesto Gresele established Acciaierie Valbruna. Rather than engaging in…
August 2026On September 21, 1924, visionary civil engineer Piero Puricelli inaugurated the world's very first highway exclusively reserved for motor vehicles: the *Autostrada dei Laghi*,…
August 2026In 1923, within the industrious foothills of the Brianza region, master artisan Alessandro Ciceri founded a modest iron and steel drop-forging workshop in Erba…
August 2026In 1930, amid the economic turbulence following the Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old Antonino Malaguti opened a humble bicycle repair workshop and dealership along Via San…
August 2026In 1929, against the backdrop of the Wall Street crash and an unusually freezing European winter, Luigi Nocivelli founded an electromechanical and thermal workshop…
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