The Scaliger Castle of Sirmione It is, to date, one of the best preserved castles in Italy, and one of the major engineering and architectural expressions of what is called lake fortification. To make it fascinating, in addition to engineering solutions adopted by the designers, there is also the legend Of the ghost of Ebengardo who, it is said, vague ...
Water games in Piazza Navona (Rome). Credit: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Very few know that a Piazza Navona existed a real artificial lake: No warship, however, nor gladiators in action, only a festive crowd of popular and nobles, gathered to enjoy an unusual show in the heart of Rome. Was Pope Innocenzo Xin the seventeenth century, ...
The recent collapse of the advertising signs on the Torre Generali of Citylife in Milan designed by Zaha Hadid brought to light the possible problems of metal structures Compared to the actions produced by high temperatures. Although it is not yet confirmed (or denial) that this is the cause of the actual collapse of the reticular structure that supports the ...
Credit: Google. Veo 3 it is finally also arrived in Italyand its availability represents a turning point in the field of video generation based on artificial intelligence. It is a system developed by Google Deepmind that allows you to Create short clip realistic videos – the maximum duration of 8 seconds – in which the moving images they are perfectly ...
A strong explosion in Rome in a petrol and LPG distributor caused a big fire. When it comes to fuels fossils, one of the most common is the LPGthat is, the liquefied oil gas. It is a mixture of propane (c3H8), Butano (C4H10) inside which there are also small percentages of other hydrocarbons such as etano, propylene or IsoButano. This ...
TO Rome there was one strong explosion To a petrol and LPG distributor in via dei Gordiani 32, in the east of the city: the accident caused a fire from which a dense column of smoke was raised, visible from different points of the capital. According to the Ansa, the explosion would have been caused by the “detachment of a ...
Graphic representation generated with IA With the novel The anniversary, Andrea Bajani He became the winner of the Witch 2025 Prize. The Roman writer thus inscribes his name in the gold register of the famous literary prize (until now he has been won by 13 writers and 66 writers) conceived in the 1940s by the writer Maria Bellonci and reserved ...
Kerlescan alignment, Carnac. Credit: Myrabella For the first time, with a new excavation campaign, it has been possible to do precisely date the Carnac megalithic sitein the North -western Franceone of the largest in the world: the beginning of the history of this site would even go back to 5700 BCmaking it the oldest megalithic monument in Europe. This region ...
A hormaia on the asphalt. Asphalt dissolved on the highway because of the record heat? The news has been turning everywhere since yesterday, but the reality is that nothing has been melted. The high temperatures of these days have created Discomfort and kilometer queues in the A4 motorwaywhere at the height of Verona In the Brennero A22 junction in the ...
The flames burst on July 2 quickly reached the south of the island of Crete. In the‘Greek island of Crete are underway fires Out of control for several days: the first bonfires broke out on Wednesday 2 July 2025 in the village of Achlia, about 12 km from the city of Ieraperin the east of the island. At that point, ...