Archaeological sites
Mértola: the village-museum where the mosque became a church
On the edge of the Guadiana, Mértola harbours a parish church that was a 12th-century mosque, with the mihrab still intact.
Jul 9, 2026Archaeological sites
Rovine romane, città greche, necropoli etrusche, nuraghi e templi antichi lontani dai grandi circuiti turistici: archeologia in silenzio, senza code.
Archaeological sites
Pont-Saint-Martin: The Roman Bridge That Two Thousand Years Have Not Scratched
At the entrance to the Aosta Valley, a first-century BC Roman arch still spans the Lys as it did the day it was built, in a town few bother to stop and look at.
Jul 9, 2026
Archaeological sites
Pietrabbondante: The Samnite Sanctuary on the Ridge of the World
At nearly a thousand metres, the Samnite theatre-temple of Pietrabbondante is the most important monument of the Samnite civilisation: sublime, solitary, and nearly invisible.
Jul 9, 2026
Archaeological sites
Massa Martana and the Catacombs: Umbria's Only Early Christian Necropolis
Along the ancient Via Flaminia, Massa Martana hides Umbria's only Christian catacombs and three Romanesque abbeys that history books overlook.
Jul 9, 2026
Archaeological sites
Venosa: Walking in the Footsteps of Horace among Castles and Roman Ruins
Venosa, birthplace of the poet Horace, shelters an Aragonese castle, a Roman archaeological park, and the haunting Benedictine Incompiuta church.
Jul 5, 2026
Archaeological sites
Lucera: Europe's Largest Swabian Fortress and a Forgotten Roman Amphitheatre
Lucera hides the vastest Swabian-Angevin fortress in Europe and an intact Roman amphitheatre. A journey into the unknown heart of Daunia.
Jul 5, 2026
Archaeological sites
Instead of Rome: Ostia Antica, the Forgotten Pompeii at the Capital's Gates
A vast archaeological park with mosaics, thermal baths and a perfectly preserved Roman theatre — just thirty minutes from Rome, with a fraction of the crowds.
Jul 5, 2026
Archaeological sites
The Domus de Janas of Montessu: the necropolis carved into an amphitheatre of rock
In the Sulcis, a natural amphitheatre of rock guards more than forty tombs cut five thousand years ago: the necropolis of Montessu, in Sardinia.
Jul 1, 2026
Archaeological sites
The Nilometer of Roda in Cairo: descending beneath the Nile to read its floods
On Roda Island in Cairo, a well dating to 861 AD, fitted with a graduated column, once measured the Nile's floods. Its history, what to see, and how to get there.
Jun 28, 2026