Testament to Spain’s golden age to open up its secret spaces after €6m revamp
Unesco-listed San Lorenzo de El Escorial was fulfilment of Philip II’s dream of raising monastery in a ‘desert’ Despite perching imperiously on a mountainside near...
Category : Unesco
Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and...
Museum chief brands Florence a ‘prostitute’ over tourist numbers
Cecilie Hollberg sparks outrage in remarks about capital city of Tuscan region being ‘crushed by tourism’ Mass tourism has turned Florence into a “prostitute”, one...
