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Discover Hidden and Unknown Italy: a virtual journey through time among legendary places, fascinating characters and surprising curiosities.
Italy is a country of extraordinary artistic and natural beauty, yet only 30% of this heritage is accessible to the public. Less well known, but equally rich, is the wonder hidden beneath the surface: under cities, in remote places, in a parallel world difficult to visit yet incredibly mysterious.
Since every place, every building, every artifact holds forgotten stories and silent details, I decided to give a voice to what seems mute or overlooked and to take you on a virtual journey through time with this project.
If you have ever walked down a street and wondered, "Who lived here? How many lives has this place witnessed? What lies beneath my feet?" — then welcome to the journey.
Discover and join the mission.
Discover Italy through virtual tours (157 destinations)
- Corfinio - Corfinium
- Capestrano - Warrior or King of Capestrano
- Altamura - The Man of Altamura, the most complete Neanderthal fossils ever found
- Bisceglie - The priest and the house of the giants
- Canosa di Puglia - Darius Vase at Canusium
- Castro - Animal species of the glacial and interglacial periods in the Romanelli Cave
- Passo di Corvo - During World War II, the planes of RAF discovered hundreds of Neolithic sites of about 6000 years ago
- Roccelletta - Land of the Phaeacians narrated by Homer
- Squillace - The Origin of the Name Italy
- Acerra - Acerrae, Oscan city of Campania
- Avella - Abella, An Ancient Gateway and Its Enduring Legacy in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy
- Avellino - Abellinum, From Ancient Settlement to Modern Avellino
- Cuma - The naval Battle of Cumae, 474 BCE
- Ischia - Ischia (Pithekoussai), the island of the Monkeys
- Napoli - The Hypogeum of Cristallini, A Rare Glimpse into the Hellenic Soul of Ancient Naples
- Pompeii - Abolla and Casts Redate the 79 AD Eruption of Pompeii
- Santa MAria Capua Vetere - The Untold Story of the Tochon Krater
- Sinuessa - Tigellinus' suicide and the acclamations of Rome
- Terzigno - The goddess Abeona and the Protection of Departures
- Bologna - The funerary stele of the Etruscan admiral Vel Kaikna
- Carpi - How Alberto Pio’s Lost Library Became a Renaissance Treasure Hunt
- Gatteo - 49 BCE Caesar Crosses the Rubicon
- Mirandola - Arsenic and poets: A Renaissance Whodunit
- Montale Rangone - Terramare of Montale
- Monte Poggiolo - First dated human occupation of Italy
- Rimini - Abortion Across Civilizations
- Travo Sant'Andrea - Spend a day in a Neolithic village and go back 6000 years
- Canino - Saved by Apollo, Unearthed by Bonaparte
- Canino - A warrior leaving home
- Canino - The remarkable life of Alexandrine and Lucien Bonaparte
- Cerveteri - The freedom enjoyed by Etruscan women at Banditaccia (Caere)
- Fara Sabina - The Journey of a Term: Aboriginal
- Fiumicino - The stele of the mosaicists and the many faces of the abacus
- Formello - Venel, the young Etruscan prince who never became a man: the Chigi olpe and a mother's regret
- Nemi - The Navalia of Ancient Rome
- Ostia - Scribes, Altars, and Deities: The Relief That Defies the Middle Ages
- Ostia - The cult of Mithras arrives in Ostia.
- Pratica di Mare - The Myths of Acestes
- Rome - Protesilaus in Rome: The Tale of the Barberini Tomb
- Rome - Like a rural fountain became the 17th century pharmacy of Rome
- Rome - Coins in the Ancient World
- Rome - The ancient Tiber river
- Rome - Ancient Roads Construction Techniques
- Rome - The ancient roads of Rome
- Rome - A vast deposit of ancient treasures was discovered in the Tiber River
- Rome - Acca Larentia, a semi-divine prostitute and mother of the Lares
- Rome - The Acemetes: Rome’s Sleepless Monks
- Rome - The water sellers peddled water door to door to the Roman people and to the Popes, who carried it with them on their journeys.
- Rome - Acqua Santa (holy water), The Miraculous Spring of the Popes That Saved the Golf Course During World War II
- Rome - The nameless martyr at the Catacombs of Commodilla
- Rome - The Last Giant: Alexander Severus' Aqueduct
- Rome - How Popes, Frauds, and Cannon Fire Forged Rome’s Iconic Fountain
- Rome - From Velitrae Moneylenders to Palatine Gods: Augustus' Invented Dynasty
- Rome - The Barrel of Termini Station: The Tank That Kept Rome’s Baths Alive
- Rome - The Clivus of Acilius and the Disappearance of the Velia: The Story of an Urban Transformation
- Rome - The Felix Aqueduct's Triumphant Arches and Moses' Might
- Rome - Gaddi-Cesi Palace: Renaissance Splendour and the Shadows of History
- Rome - Hadrian’s Mausoleum
- Rome - Mystery of the Skull on Rome's Palatine Hill
- Rome - Pancratius: The Boy Martyr Whose Courage Echoed
- Rome - The Enigmatic Death of Raphael and the Mystery of His Skull
- Rome - Priscilla, The Queen of the Catacombs
- Rome - Secrets of Priscilla's Mausoleum
- Rome - The Urban Expansion of Rome: Origins, Apogee, Decline
- Rome - The Bernini's Last Wish
- Rome - Bernini's Studio: Where Europe Came Calling
- Rome - Clay and Commerce: the world of Publius Veveius Papus
- Rome - Giulio Romano: Raphael's Heir
- Rome - The Clash of Titans: Pope Julius II, Michelangelo, and the Birth of a Masterpiece in the Sistine Chapel
- Rome - The Volscian Rostra of Antium: The Spurs Bronze Beaks that Adorned the Roman Forum
- Rome - From emperor Otho’s Estate to Trappist Beer: The Layered History of Three Fountains Abbey
- Rome - Monumentum Libertorum et Servorum Liviae Augustae, the imperial servants' and freedmen's tombs on the ancient Appian Way.
- Rome - Villa Florio in Rome: The Last Splendor of a Fading Empire
- Rome - Abbot Luigi's Alley and the ancient talking Roman statue in a toga
- Rome - Villa Madama: Raphael's Unfinished Masterpiece
- Rome - The Etruscan Curse: Ghosts and Imperial Splendor in Lucius Verus’s Vanished Villa
- Rome - Vittoria Accoramboni, The Woman Who Defied the Pope
- Rome - The Concept of Abdication (abdicatio) from Ancient Rome to the Papacy
- Rome - Abercius funeral stele
- Rome - Absentia: The Tragedy of Merula
- Rome - The Argo Relief in Villa Albani
- Rome - Pope Felix III and the Acacian Schism
- Rome - Villa Medici, Rome: The Reliefs of the Temple of Cybele and the Millenary Memory of the Pincian Hill
- Rome - The Secret Lake and Ancient Tomb Hiding Under the Vatican's Tribunal
- Rome - Publius Decumius, Accensus Velatus
- Sperlonga - The Fishing Village That Guarded a Hellenistic Masterpiece
- Tivoli - The Tyrannicides, Harmodius and Aristogeiton
- Tivoli - The Herm of Pericles and Neoclassicism: the role of Popes in the Roman Villas of Tivoli
- Alassio - The Witches of Alassio
- Alassio - The history of Alassio
- Alassio - The Legend of Adelasia and Aleramo
- Albenga - The Journey of Hercules: Myth and the Origins of Albenga
- Albenga - The Great Shipwreck
- Albenga - The Island of Hens and Hermits
- Albenga - The Boar of Reconciliation
- Albenga - Ancient Treasures Revealed
- Albisole - The Assembly of the Dead at Sea
- Albisole - Lidless Pots
- Ameglia - The Monster and Saint Venerius
- Finale Ligure - The tomb of the Paleolithic young Prince
- Ventimiglia - The Stolen Venus
- Agnadello - Battle of Agnadello, Venice Trembles (May 14, 1509)
- Albosaggia - Colossal Skeletons and Magic Skulls
- Almenno San Salvatore - The Crocodile in the Church
- Angera - The Borromean Fortress of Angera
- Angera - The Cave of Mithras
- Angera - The City Founded by the Grandson of Aeneas
- Angera - The Flammable Marshes
- Brescia - Abba Giuseppe Cesare, the soldier poet teacher
- Camonica Valley - The Ancient Rock Art of Camonica Valley
- Milan - The Comet Was Right
- Milan - Federico Borromeo: The Long Deception of a Cardinal
- Sabbioneta - Vespasiano Gonzaga, the Sarcophagus, and the Saga of the Achaeans
- Pesaro - From the Gold of the Gauls to the Theater of Rome: the Picene City That Gave Birth to a Tragic Genius
- Urbino - The Duke, Raphael, and the Hero and Leander Cup
- Acqui Terme - Boiling Water
- Albaretto della Torre - The Legend of the Six Paters and Queen Joanna
- Alexandria - Baudolino and the Geese
- Alexandria - The City of Straw on the Marsh
- Alexandria - Gagliaudo's Cow
- Alexandria - From Priest to Brigand
- Alexandria - St. Peter and the Germans
- Alexandria - The Terrible Queen Pedoca
- Alexandria - Three Saints, an Angel, and a Rooster
- Alexandria - Warlord in a Cage
- Alpignano - The Spinning Rock of the Three Kings
- Turin - Ostraca: Ancient Shards of Life and History
- Turin - Power and passion of the Duchesses at the Savoy Court.
- Turin - Bernardino Drovetti and the Stele That Traveled the Nile to Turin
- Barumini - Barumini in the heart of Sardinia
- Cagliari - The Nuragic bronze statuettes, symbols of Sardinian identity
- Monte d'Accoddi - The ziqqurat of Monte d'Accoddi
- Aci Trezza - Ulysses, Achaemenides and the Cyclops
- Agrigento - Herakles, Acheloos, and the Baron: The Story of an Ancient Masterpiece
- Alia - Discovering the Tomb of the Legendary Cretan King Minos
- Palermo - The Cave of Paleolithic Shamans, Dancers, and Acrobats at Addaura
- Realmonte - The first australopithecus found in Europe
- Stentinello - Ceramics date the first military construction in Sicily
- Taormina - The Greek Theatre of Taormina
- Tripi - Abakainon, the ancient Greek city disappeared
- St. Lorenzen of Sebato - The Mansio Sebatum, an ancient roman postal service
- Val Senales - The prehistoric Similaun man treated with acupuncture: Ötzi or Öetzi, the Iceman
- Andalo - The Lake That Appears and Disappears
- Cles - The Tabula Clesiana: A Grant of Roman Citizenship
- Abbadia San Salvatore - Rachis, the Hunter King Who Became a Monk
- Altopascio - The Bell of the Lost
- Florence - Acciaiuoli Family in Florence
- Populonia - The life of Ledeltius in ancient Populonia
- Vitozza - The lost rupestrian town
- Abano Terme - Eternal Sanctuary of Healing Waters
- Agordo - Saint Martin's Stone
- Altino - Attila and the hidden treasures
- Andraz - The Legend of the Mirrors and the Lakes
- Legnago - The Pharmacist’s Library Books That Vanished During the Two World Wars
- Padua - The Purloined Bones of the Magician Pietro d'Abano
- Venice - Aldus Manutius: How One Man Changed Reading Forever
- Verona - How an Acerra Tells the Story of Verona’s Romanization