The Treasure of Villena. Credit: Por Descanocido – http://www.contestania.com/images/villena/tesoro.jpg, CC BY–SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6810517 In Spain, in Villena, one of the most important gold treasures from the Bronze Age in Europe and the oldest iron artefact ever found in the country was stolen. Thursday August 27around dawn, a group of thieves …
Earthquake of magnitude 3.2 in the province of Lucca, epicenter in Coreglia Antelminelli
Earthquake of magnitude 3.2 in the province of Lucca. A shock of earthquake Of magnitude 3.2 was registered in the province of Lucca, today August 28th at 3.06pm. According to data reported by INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) the epicenter of the earthquake was located 6 km north-east …
450 years ago Titian died: the Renaissance painter who revolutionized the use of red
Titian, Self-Portrait, circa 1562, oil on canvas, 96 × 75 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons It was the end of the summer of 1576, and the plague was claiming victims in Venice: exactly on August 27, 450 years ago, the most illustrious of these victims …
