Rich in honey-hued churches and elaborate baroque designs, the southern Italian city of Lecce is often regarded as the 'Florence of the South'. The construction of Basilica di Santa Croce took ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for his extraordinary talent and groundbreaking experiments. Today, an ...

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who share his Y chromosome, according to Il Giornale. For the first time, an ...

The city’s largest Franciscan church, the Santa Croce boasted stunning works of art, including Giotto’s fresco The Coronation of the Virgin with Angels and Saints, as well as funerary monuments to ...

Under their rule, Florence became a shining beacon for experimentation, which the Roman church was frantically trying to suppress with the Inquisition. At the same time, humanism, stemming from the ...

The ghost of the great poet, Dante Alighieri, haunts Florence, his memory omnipresent yet elusive. His cenotaph in Santa Croce is a tomb with no body ... in cheek about why it’s called Dante’s Church ...

Multi-Billion-Dollar Global Sports Brand Shows Timeless, Sporty Spring-Summer Collection 2025WEST PALM BEACH, FL & FLORENCE, ITALY / ACCESSWIRE / June 6, 2024 / U.S. Polo Assn., ...