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Against the barbarians of tourism. How to defend heritage in 10 rules

There is a problem related to tourism, including the purely cultural kind, that is, insisting on cultural places. And it makes little difference whether these places are monumental sites, museums, nature parks: as cultural heritage they are part of t...
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For a rediscovery of the Renaissance in Sicily. Francesco Laurana between Palazzolo Acreide and the Val di Noto.

Almost at the apex of the dense settlement of pale stone houses, which climbs to the top of the hill (where the theater of ancient Akrai still stands), on the left hand side, going up Corso Vittorio Emanuele, one encounters a flight of stairs...
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Genoa's Doge's Chapel and its frescoes: a history of the city in pictures

Embedded in the monumental spaces of Genoa's Ducal Palace, renovated in the 1770s in a now neoclassical style, is one of the most significant and best-preserved seventeenth-century chapels of the entire ancient Republic. Or rather, perhaps it should ...
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