Heritage

Between naturalism and real life, between dream and reality: walking through the Santa Maria della Scala museum will take you into a special world where the art and history of one of Europe’s oldest hospitals are brought to light. Located …

In a corner of the courtyard of Juliet’s house, in Verona, is the headquarters of the Juliet Club. Thousands of people from all over the world write to Juliet and confide in her about their own sufferings in love. Juliet …

On September 17th 1515, Cardinal Ippolito d’Este wrote a letter to the Marquis of Mantova announcing that Ludovico Ariosto had just finished writing “Orlando Furioso” (Mad Orlando). The epic poem was published in 1516, and soon became the first best …

“La cultura è migrazione” dice Federico Gonzalez Perini, addetto culturale dell’ Ambasciata Argentina in Italia, introducendo “Il giorno di Stefano”, dal titolo di un libro della scrittrice italoargentina  Maria Teresa Andruetto.    Simona Cives, responsabile della Casa delle traduzioni del …

Come to Thiene during the weekends of september or october, you will leave for a real travel in time! Thiene 1492 is an historical re-enactment which takes place every year, deeply felt by the locals. Its main moment is the …

Due giorni prima del Giorno della Memoria, Alessandra Di Castro, direttrice del Museo Ebraico di Roma, è arrivata al Memoriale dell’Olocausto di New York City per rilanciare il progetto per il ritrovamento di oltre 5.000 volumi su 7.000 trafugati dai …

If, after travelling to Milan, you have the feeling that you have visited more than one city at the same time, don’t consider yourself a fool. The capital of the Lombardy region is one of the richest in history, art …

The village of San Leo, in the Romagna hills, is famous for its old Fortress: it is the prison where the Count of Cagliostro died in 1795. Who was Cagliostro? Why has he been imprisoned here? Let’s take a journey …

On February 2nd, the shooting of the most anticipated Ben-Hur’s remake, directed by the Kazakh Timur Bekmambetov, started in Matera, Basilicata. The so-called “Subterranean City”, whose center, named “Sassi”, was declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 1993, has been …

Intervista a Enzo Caffarelli, direttore editoriale, ma anche co-curatore e autore del Dizionario Enciclopedico delle Migrazioni Italiane nel Mondo, un’opera dedicata alla Grande Emigrazione italiana tra Otto e Novecento che l’ex presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano, nel suo saluto a …