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The discovery expands the city's borders, confirming its cultural and economic importance in the ancient world

Consecrated on August 5, 434, Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major) is the earliest Marian sanctuary in the West. It’s home to the Salus Populi Romani, the world’s most important Marian icon likely painted by St. Luke the Evangelist, and...

The monument dates back to the 9th century and has been renovated multiple times over the centuries

Water has always been an integral part of Rome’s landscape and culture from its ancient aqueducts and Imperial baths to its majestic Renaissance and Baroque fountains commissioned by her ruling popes, and since the mid-19th century, her “nasoni”, or drinking...

An Italian airline has announced that it will be putting the Apulian capital of Bari on the map with its first ever direct flight route from the United States. Starting in June, the Milan-based airline Neos will be offering weekly...

On November 29 the first museum in the world dedicated to England’s great Romantic-era poet Lord George Gordon Byron opened in Ravenna. It’s an appropriate date since 2024 is the 200th anniversary of his death on April 19 probably from...

The Museo Egizio boasts the world's only collection that represents all periods of Ancient Egyptian history

The once closed-off space opened on October 31st, with the authorization of the Holy See

Ristorante Spirito DiVino/ This beautiful medieval house with a loggia and arches at Via Genovesi 31A once belonged to the Jewish Italian lexicographer Nathan ben Jechiel (1035-1106), who began his sad life as a peddler of linens. He turned to...

The tiny town, perched on an impossible-looking height, offered history, great food, and splendid scenery

These options all 4-star with all the amenities but they might be better classified as guesthouses

The work and the restriction come as the Jubilee Year approaches, in the future there may be an admission fee and timed entry