Cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

According to Iranian press, Israeli attacks threaten ancient Taq-e Bostan site in Iran

According to Iranian press reports, a series of Israeli airstrikes reportedly struck several areas located within a three-kilometer radius of the Taq-e Bostan archaeological site near Kermanshah in westernIran between Saturday and Sunday (June 14-Jun...
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UNESCO: "Concern over damage to St. Sophia Cathedral after attack on Kiev"

UNESCO has expressed deep concern over the situation of the Kyiv World Heritage Site : St. Sophia Cathedral and related monastic buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, following the missile attack launched by the Russian Federation on June 10, 2025. The dam...
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European center for cultural heritage sciences established. The headquarters is in Florence

E-RIHS - European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science(www.e-rihs.eu) provides technologically advanced tools and specialized expertise to explore the secrets of the colors in an ancient painting, analyze the composition of historic textiles ...
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The flood of skills: a story that starts with conservation

In the face of the environmental tragedies that increasingly strike Italy - these days the fourth flood in two years in part of Emilia, including Bologna - with deaths, missing people, thousands homeless, hundreds of millions in damages and so on, I ...
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Culture Minister Alexander Giuli's guidelines in detail

What are the guidelines on which the new Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli intends to set his action? Last October 8, in front of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Giuli expressed his vision in an hour-long speech: the attention o...
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Trevi Fountain for a fee? Crazy idea, impractical, and would cause negative phenomena

I am deeply opposed to the proposal, but I say right away that the problem is not in the cost, whether it is 2 euros or 5 or 10. It is not about defending tourists from a payment. The reasons are quite different. Contrary to what Councillor Onorato i...
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Putting a fee on the Trevi Fountain: a dystopian, grotesque and wrong idea, here's why

According to Rome's tourism councilor, Alessandro Onorato, visiting the Trevi Fountain should be an "experience," whatever that means: his word, he said so in a video he posted on his Instagram profile. Now, it is not important to investigate what th...
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Why it is not a good idea to send the Farnese Atlas to the Osaka Expo 2025

The Ministry of Culture statement says that the Farnese Atlas will be tasked with "representing Italian cultural heritage in our pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka," and Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano adds that putting the Farnese Atlas at the center ...
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