Known as the “cathedral city”, Acerenza spreads out on a plateau of tuff rock (tufo) 800m above sea level, between the Bardano and Fiumarella rivers, in the north-east of the province of Potenza. The Latin poet Horace,…
Castel Tasso is located on a high rocky spur near the reclaimed Vipiteno swamp, in the municipality of Campo di Trens. The castle was first mentioned in 1100 as a fiefdom of the Bavarian Lechsgmünd counts; the manor…
King Charles III founded the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1737, many years before the construction of Milan’s Teatro della Scala or Venice’s Teatro Fenice. The San Carlo Orchestra was established the same year while…