Afghanistan - Coming Full Circle
After 20 years, the country’s old regime prepares to come back
Editorials about: culture
Italy - Dante
On the occasion of the seven hundredth anniversary of his death, Italy celebrates the cantos and key places of the great poet
Italy - Aquaeductus
Rome’s ancient aqueducts are still viewed with great affection and feature regularly in daily life
Italy - Naples, the Priest of Rione Sanità
The rebirth of a neighbourhood plagued by crime
Italy - The Show Must Go On
The uncertainty and fragility of the culture industry
Republic of San Marino - Terra Perpetuae Libertatis
Life and the pandemic in the autonomous enclave of San Marino
Africa - The Glass Beads Game
The art of glass bead making joins UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list
Libya - Gaddafi’s Utopia
Ten thousand years of history. Civilizations that have fought, traded, loved, hated, overlapped, merged and intertwined in an inextricable tangle. Ten thousand years of history and a single, eternal common denominator: the Mediterranean. With Libya at the center: yesterday as today, it is both the natural gateway to – and exit point from – Africa. […]