The Flavian Amphitheatre in Pozzuoli is the third largest built in Italy during the Roman Empire (after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheatre). It was built in the first century C.E. at the point where the Via…
Alcamo, in South Western Sicily was founded by the Arabs who named it Alqamah (fertile land) passing to Norman and Swabian control and later to the estate of the Counts of Modica, as the castle, today part of the town,…
The old borgo of Balestrino (SV), now uninhabited, is located on a rocky spur near Loano, rising steeply above the River Barescione. Although the old centre first began to empty out in 1850 when an earthquake undermined…