Veneto
The monument to Niccolò Tommaseo: a scholar, a pile of books, and a nickname Venice never dropped
Francesco Barzaghi's marble of Niccolò Tommaseo was unveiled in Campo Santo Stefano in 1882. The books propping it…
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Greece
The Parthenon — Athens
Built without a single straight line, the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis remains the most imitated building in…
Veneto
The plaque to Gherardo Pantano in Oderzo — a town’s account of one of its own
A marble plaque of the later 1930s set in a wall in Oderzo for the general Gherardo Pantano…
Spain
The Roman Walls of Astorga — 2.2 Kilometres of Late Roman Towers Around Asturica Augusta
The late Roman wall of Asturica Augusta, built c. 300 AD: 2.2 km of quartzite and concrete with…
Emilia-Romagna
The Sancisi plaque, via Molari, Santarcangelo di Romagna: a republican organiser of workers, remembered in 1908 – Virtual Tour 360°
A marble tablet of 1908 on the house where Eduardo Sancisi died, put up by the republicans of…
Germany
The Thingstätte on the Heiligenberg
The Thingstätte amphitheatre on the Heiligenberg, Heidelberg. Photo: Radosław Drożdżewski, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany…
Veneto
The Tomb of Pier Luigi Penzo — the Aviator of the Italia Rescue, in the Cemetery of San Michele
The tomb of Pier Luigi Penzo in the military field of the San Michele cemetery. Photo: Stefano Vigolo,…
Jordan
The Treasury
The Treasury, a monumental stone façade at Petra, anchors an archaeological site of over 800 classified monuments in…
Emilia-Romagna
The Two Towers of Bologna — Torre degli Asinelli (97.2 m, 1109–1119) and Torre Garisenda (48 m, leaning): the Symbol of the Medieval City That Had 180 Towers (UNESCO 2021)
Le Due Torri di Bologna — the Asinelli tower (97.2 m, the tallest surviving medieval tower in Italy)…
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