Author: MarcoItaly
Published articles: 27
Como is a charming town in Northern Italy. Adjacent to the facade of the Cathedral, the Broletto is an old communal palace built in the 13C and made up of an arcaded ground floor and an upper floor decorated with windows with three openings. Started in the late 14th century, completed in the Renaissance and …
This Italian mountain town near to the Austrian border features the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. The Ötzi museum, as it is also known, charts the history of South Tyrol (Alto-Adige) from the first glacial period (150 000 BC) to the Carolingian period. The famous Ötzi is the star attraction. The “iceman” was found in …
Enjoy the view over Trieste from the Saint Just Hill, overlooking the Adriatic, and the draught-board of the modern city that the Romans founded, Tergeste, where most of the ancient and medieval remains of the city are concentrated today. The Piazza della Cattedrale is a square located on Saint Just Hill, in the center of …
Paper was not invented by the Italians, but by the Orientals, but its manufacture was greatly developed and improved by them and furnished an extremely important adjuvent for the art of printing. Fabriano of Anoona made excellent paper early in the fourteenth century and the extant manuscripts on Italian paper from that period excite admiration …
We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek …
Although the Italians are not usually associated with naval development some of the most important evolutions in naval vessels have been suggested from Italy. In the second part of 19th century they made the first very large iron clads of the Dandolo type. Cuniberti conceived and designed the battle cruiser type with unit calibre guns …
As might well be expected from what they accomplished for music in other ways the inventions of Italians in musical instruments are many and various and most important. The violin in the form in which we have it comes entirely from their hands and it is besides to Italian makers that we owe the perfection …
Italians are good at custom luxuries. At Alfa Romeo, the Italian motor car manufacturer, they play a nostalgic tune to reaffirm a sporting identity lost a long time ago. The alfists whose passion survived so many decades started to despair to see one day the 8C Competizione passing from a motor show dream to luxury …
In the history of Italian art, Raphael stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of English literature. Everywhere we recognize his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated, never improved. Raphael of Urbino was born in Urbino, in 1483. Urbino is located in the Marche region of Italy, between Ravenna and Perugia. As …
A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy. Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. …