Weird Italy, Guide to Unusual & Amazing Places to see in Italy

The unique Skull Puppets made in Val Gardena, South Tyrol. These heads were handcrafted in series from the first half of the 19th century until the Second World War. They were produced by a few…

The Italian National Security Agency provides coordination on security and intelligence issues of strategic importance across government. The Italian President of the Council of Ministers will have…

Fascist Propaganda Posters The Italian fascist regime soon understood the importance of communication and propaganda. The Fascist government made extensive use of propaganda to “inspire” the nat…

The Appian Way is one of the earliest and most important Roman roads of the ancient republic that changed the culture of Ancient Rome. The Appian Way (Via Appia) is an ancient and strategically imp…

The tenth edition for the Italian Contemporary Film Festival will kick off on June 19th with a red carpet drive-in Special Screening featuring the new animation from Disney and Pixar. The ICFF, pre…

The Carnival and the Masks of Venice: Mistery, Illusion & Seduction Masks have always been used in the ancient tradition of Greek theatre, in the Italian commedia dell’arte, in the Japanese the…

Cittaslow, the International network of the “cities of easy living” opens a new perspective to sustainability through the defense of bees and defines a global commitment to protect bees for good livin…

The most brutal paintings in Italian Art History We’ve made a list of ten of the most violent and terrifying art pieces in Italian art.  Since ancient times, art has depicted…

100-Year-Old Photos Capture Authentic Daily Life in Italy. These evocative snapshots of Italy were taken by American photographers and come from the Library of Congress archives between 1860 and 1…

The Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Italy The Valley of the Temples is an archaeological site in Agrigento (ancient Greek Akragas), Sicily.  The Valley of the Temples is one of the most n…

Roman Theatre, Aosta The Roman Theatre in Aosta is an ancient building built a few decades after the foundation of the Aosta, in 25 BC as testified by the presence of pre-existing structures in the…

Italian archaeologists have found the remains of nine hominids, eight of which would have lived between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago and one between 90,000 and 100,000 years ago in the Grotta Guattari …

The Mithraeum of San Clemente in Rome The Mithraeum is a building from the Roman imperial period buried several meters below the Basilica of San Clemente del Laterano in Rome, located between the E…

After the Treaty of Fontainebleau, Napoleon was exiled to Elba, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea 10 kilometers from the coast of Tuscany. Elba is the third-largest island in Italy, after Sicily and …

On Sunday, the Italian Ministry of Culture presented plans to build a platform that will restore the arena space at the center of the Colosseum in Rome, above the complex underground system. The pl…

The castle of Duino is located in Duino-Aurisina in the province of Trieste. The castle is perched on a cliff overlooking the Gulf of Trieste. The manor is known for its magnificent architecture and i…

Crespi d’Adda is a model company town in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. The village was built by Cristoforo Benigno Crespi in 1877 and finished by his son Silvio to meet the workers’ needs. Sin…