Historical Sites

Just down the road from the River Sàbato, Benevento was founded by Diomedes, an exile from the Trojan War who left the city the Calydonian Boar, the s… Read the rest

To protect the city, the Aragonese sovereigns, King Ferdinand I of Naples and his son Alfonso, when the Ottomans took Otranto (1480), chose the island… Read the rest

In Piazza Duomo, the city’s heart, pause in front of the Elephant Fountain (u liotru, a Catanian distortion of “Eliodorus”), a statue in lava stone de… Read the rest

lthough it is located in the heart of the historic center of Catania, the Roman theater must really be found. It is not at the top of a hill dominatin… Read the rest

The most ancient and picturesque district, with its churches and old houses, can be seen from Via Garibaldi. Follow its roads, which climb the slope o… Read the rest

Who has never dreamed of being in the shoes of Marty McFly in Back to the Future? Well, then you must see this archaeological site. Time travel takes… Read the rest

Buried for centuries, a church and monastery discovered in the early 1990s on Sir Bani Yas Island illuminate the evidence of early Christianity in the… Read the rest

The Hili Archaeological Site not only provides the earliest known evidence of an agricultural village in the United Arab Emirates but also contains ot… Read the rest

The 5,000-year-old Jebel Hafit tombs mark the start of the Bronze Age in the UAE. Excavations by Danish archaeologists in 1959 found evidence of ceram… Read the rest

Be the knight or princess of your childhood fairytales in the Byzantine town of Mystras! Visit the mystical tower town of Mystras – in the Pel… Read the rest