Heritage

Turin got back its Egyptian museum after a 50-million-euro revamp and three years of renovation work. For the first time, visitors will have the chance to see the whole of the museum, famous for housing the world’s second-largest collection of Egyptian …

Dear Readers,   April – Aprile comes from the Latin word aperire which means to open.   1. April Fool’s Day is a day people usually play silly pranks, so be alert. The United States orbited the first weather satellite …

The portraits of twenty eight wise men, scattered during the 17th century, have been temporarily reunited and coming back to the Studiolo of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino. Around 1476, Federico da Montefeltro had a …

Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was an architecture student when she was first introduced to the restoration world by Piero Portaluppi e Mauro Pellicioli. As a girl she started painting flowers on tablecloths for Gio Ponti and eventually, when she became a …

The church dedicated to St. Michael, the patron saint of the Carmignano inhabitants, was built around 1330 where a small oratory with the convent realized by Bernard of Quintavalle already existed and was dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi who had …

  Since the advent of travel in the Medieval period, Italy has always been the focus of European voyagers. In the beginning, early travel books were written as guides for the Medieval religious pilgrim seeking Christian sites in Italy. With …

In 325 A.D. the Nicean Council decided Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox, unless the first full moon also rose on a Sunday, in which case Easter would be …

As told by the New York Times, the amazing story of Luciano Faggiano is now known worldwide: indeed, what happened to the Italian who lives in Lecce, Apulia, is just incredible. As he always wanted to open a trattoria and …

April 2nd marked an important day for the city of Mantua. After having experienced a series of devastating earthquakes back in 2012, the Ducal Palace reopened its famous Camera degli Sposi (“bridal chamber”). The Ducal Palace or Palazzo Ducale was …

The painting had been damaged by rain when a tornado hit Florence last September and now, through a special mobile app through Google Play or Apple, viewers can get an audio guide narrated by Timothy Verdon, director of the Duomo museum …