Italy's Ancient Monuments and Cultural Heritage Crumbling. Published Jul 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM EDT Updated Jul 19, 2011 at 4:47 PM EDT. Left: Diego Della Valle at the La Scala Opera House in Milan ...

Not so Italy — there was no equivalent de-fascistization. The country is still filled with buildings and street names that evoke its 20-year dictatorship. / Sylvia Poggioli/NPR ...

Italy, he said, is full of buildings, highways, monuments and crucial infrastructure built during Italy's two decades under fascist dictatorship. “It's a paradox, but you live with paradoxes,” he said ...

The 18th-century monument was damaged during the incident as the vehicle hit the travertine steps. A large piece of marble was sheered off and restoration costs are estimated to be around $27,000.

Italy is famed for fashion, food and, of course, history. In fact, Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the world. As other social needs have taken ...

Abraham Lincoln was dead 57 years before the Lincoln Memorial was constructed. George Washington had to wait 89 years after his death before his monument in Washington, DC, was finished. Thomas Jef… ...

A tourist climbed up the Foutain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, to take a selfie, the mayor said. He caused around $5,375 in damage to the historic monument, according to Deutsche Welle.

ROME — Italy inaugurated a living monument to its covid-19 dead Thursday as it marked the anniversary of one of the most haunting moments of the pandemic: when Bergamo’s death toll reached ...