Heritage

Starting April 23, Royal Palace in Monza will host an exhibition dedicated to Italy, which is celebrated through works of art by Canova, Michelangelo but also Dalì and Andy Warhol. Here’s more.     As, through the centuries, Italy has …

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 …

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 …

St. Mark’s Festival of Venice, Italy, or Festa di San Marco, is an important religious feast of the city’s beloved patron, Saint Mark, who perished on April 25, 68 A.D. Saint Mark was one of Christ’s disciples and the author …

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 …

Pietà Rondanini is a marble sculpture that Michelangelo worked on from the 1550s until the last days of his life, in 1564. Always housed in the Museum of Ancient Art of Sforza Castle in Milan, it will be now moved …

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 …

A new exhibition of the Shroud, the alleged burial cloth of Jesus Christ, kicked off on Sunday in Turin. According to the organizers, millions of tourists and pilgrims will visit the city and the cathedral to see the relic, made …

Dear Readers, An April assortment of Italian connections for you: Pietro Di Donato was born in West Hoboken, New Jersey on April 3, 1911, to Abruzzese emigrants and died at the age of 80. He took up writing during a …