Colorno: the sad story of suffering in the abandoned asylum.
Colorno, the italian abandoned psychiatric hospital near Parma, still seems to make its walls speak. Inside now there is nothing, only crowded blankets, clothes, old weelchairs and scattered documents, but […]
Baunscheidt’s Lebenswecker: The 19th-Century “Life-Awakener”
On an unspecified day in 1847, the German inventor Carl Baunscheidt sat in his own garden, suffering from the pain his hands caused by gout (or perhaps rheumatoid arthritis). The […]
Venice and The Collapse of St. Mark’s Bell Tower
It was the year 1902 and San Marco and Venice were not very different from what we know today. The Basilica and the bell tower were standing, similar to today, […]
Will Scarlet’s Grave In Blidworth.
We are in the shade of the yew trees rooted in the graveyard of a medieval church, where there is an enigmatic, unmarked stone monument. According to the legend Will […]
The Hermitage in St.Petersburg maintains still today a Colony of Cats to keep the Museum free from mice.
The State Hermitage Museum in the Russian city of St. Petersburg is one of the oldest and most prestigious museums in the world. The gigantic collection, which has over three […]
Wolf and Cow playing Backgammon: a curious viennese mural~
This is a crazy medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house. In the 15th century, Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini, better known later in life with the name […]
Stańczyki Viaducts: this two abandoned overpasses are among the largest bridges in Poland!
This two big Roman viaducts are located near a small Polish village. These abandoned railroad bridges tower over the little village and its surrounding woods. The Stańczyki Viaducts are among […]
Crecchio Castle, history, legends and Byzantines!
The castle, of Norman-Swabian origin, was built around a watchtower around the 11th-12th centuries. The original tower, called “normanna” and “dell’ulivo”, part of a territorial defensive system, was visually connected […]
Caerleon Amphitheatre: the King Arthur’s legendary Round Table?
We are in the year 100 BC, in what is today south Wales, where roman soldiers were probably in search of an evening’s entertainment. They have probably gone to the […]
Buonanotte Vecchio!
Inside its streets it is not easy to walk, going through the grown plants and the collapsed buildings on the old pedestrian streets, but some of the old houses, the […]
One of the most luxurious villas of Abano Terme: Villa Mocenigo-Mainardi.
This is one of the most luxurious and important villas of Abano Terme, which hosted various famous personalities such as the playwright and writer Carlo Goldoni (who wrote “I Bagni […]
Bleikeller: eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
When Arp Schnitger, a reputed organ maker who working in Germany in the late 17th century, was assigned a portion of an underground crypt of St Peter’s Cathedral in Bremen […]
The Roman lighthouse at the medieval castle of Dover is the oldest building in England.
Dover Castle in Kent is known as the “key to England” for its defensive importance in the last 2 millennia of history. The medieval fortress dates back to the eleventh […]
The “Hunger Stones”: sinister messages of the past discovered in Děčín.
The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republic then crosses Germany into the North Sea has exposed stones on the river bed whose appearances in […]
The unusual story of the Cowboy Cartographer who loved California~
The “Renaissance Man of the West” collected history, geography, and personal details into his maps of different parts of California. His name was Jo Mora, and he poured the state’s […]
The migrants that led Roman Empire to collapse….
According to the major part of historians, It was the mismanagement of the migratory wave of Goths in the fourth century generated the hostilities at the base of the Battle […]
