

S.Pietro a Corte: Salerno’s architectural masterpiece
Salerno is a Tyrrhenian jewel: a long esplanade bathed in sunlight paired with a tight, dark network of streets rising up the hill which...


La Grotta di San Michele ad Olevano sul Tusciano
Fascinating two-day conference at Battipaglia and Salerno dedicated to the extraordinary early Medieval cave sanctuary in the rugged...


The portrait of Abbot Epyphanius (824-42), San Vincenzo al Volturno
Portraits are rare before the High Middle Ages. This makes the vivid portrait of Abbot Epyphanius in the crypt of San Vincenzo al...


A model for Italy’s castles & palaces: Newark Park, Gloucestershire
Italy always laments that it has too much heritage. How is it to maintain it all? The UK’s National Trust has an answer: strategize for...


Happy birthday, Jóska: Reflections on the sixtieth birthday of Prof. József Laszlovszky (Central Eu
Jóska’s first odyssey out of Hungary was to Riccardo Francovich’s excavations at Scarlino, Tuscany. The project has a new afterlife forty...


A magical mystery tour in Umbria
Day breaks with a thick mist and the raucous yelling of hunters. The veil of mist lifts to reveal a cloudless sky and the hunters fire...


nEU-Med day at Scarlino: our (Vetricella’s) first book is published
Origins of a new economic union (7th-12th centuries) edited by Giovanna Bianchi and Richard Hodges, Florence, Insegna del Giglio was...