Italy On This Day

City devastated by nine-day blaze An 18th century depiction of the Great Fire by the French artist Hubert Robert Almost two thirds of the an...

Patron saint of maritime city  A 14th century statue of San Giusto di Trieste adorns the bell tower of the cathedral San Giusto di Tr...

Excavations unearthed massive Catacomb of St Callixtus Grave niches were carved out of the rock in the passageways of the Roman cata...

Annual festival keeps alive the memory of city’s saint Sant'Alessandro, as portrayed by artist Bernardino Luini in 1525 The ...