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Why are we talking about crisis and climate emergency, and not climate change?
Before man arrived on planet Earth, conditions on the planet changed over time, sometimes violently, other times more gradually. All these changes have produced favourable conditions for life as we know it today to develop.
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Palace of the Captains
The Palazzo dei Capitani is an elegant building in Gothic and Venetian style located in the center of Malcesine, overlooking Lake Garda.
What 'calle', 'piazza', 'campo', 'campiello' and 'campazzo' stand for, in Venice
Do not ask the Venetians where such a square or such a street is located because you would hear the answer that in Venice there is only one square and it is in the San Marco district, that is Piazza San Marco, and only a handful, at most, of stree
Da Vinci Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Anchiano - near Florence - on April 15, 1452, the illegitimate son of the notary ser Pier, of Vinci, and of Caterina, a woman of humble origins.
Vivaldi Antonio
He owes his love for music to his violinist father Giovanni Battista who played for some years in the chapel of San Marco; he seems to have been a pupil of the musician Giovanni Legrenzi.
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto
The first documents in which the Church of San Giacomo is mentioned date back to 1152, but tradition has it that it was the first building built in the Rialto area - erected the same year as the foundation of Venice - in 421.
Artworks safe from climate change with the new Louvre Conservation Center
Protect artworks from climate change. In an era in which the certainty of an increasingly critical climate has become a reality, where the risk of more frequent and more intense flooding forces all coastal realities to deal with a
How is an illuminated manuscript made?
All over the world, in cultural archives and in private collections, there are precious witnesses of what can be placed at the dawn of modern publishing: manuscripts.
Merlin Lina
Lina Merlin, born Angelina Merlin, was born in Pozzonovo, in the province of Padua, on October 15, 1887, into a petty bourgeois family. At the age of four, she moved to Chioggia in the house of her maternal grandmother.
Fontego dei Turchi
The façade is hinged between two turrets and has a porticoed ground floor for access to the water, one of the largest in Venice and second only to that of Palazzo Ducale; this characteristic and common feature of the warehouses (Fontego in Venetia
Church of San Marcuola
Popular belief believes that the church of Saints Ermagora and Fortunato, transformed into "San Marcuola" in the Venetian dialect, was built on an island called Lemeneo between the 9th and 10th centuries by some refugees who fled from the mainland
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