Curated category
National museums of Italy
- HerculaneumThe Greek hero Heracles founded the city according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Strabo claimed that Oscans established the first settlement instead.
- PompeiiThe first stable settlements on the site date to the 8th century BC when the Oscans, a population of central Italy, founded five villages in the area.
- Museo di CapodimonteKing Charles VII of Naples and Sicily made a decision in 1738 that would reshape the landscape of Naples. He initially planned to build a simple hunting…
- UffiziGiorgio Vasari began construction of the Uffizi complex in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici. The building served as administrative offices to consolidate control…
- Museo Archeologico Nazionale d'AbruzzoThe year 1830 marked the construction of a Neapolitan architect Enrico Riccio designed building in Chieti. This structure served as the Baron Frigerj's…
- ColosseumEmperor Vespasian ordered the construction of a new amphitheater in 72 AD. The project began on land that had once been Nero's private lake and palace…
- CosaIn 273 BC, Roman colonists established a new settlement on a hill 113 meters above sea level. This location sat 140 kilometers northwest of Rome along the…
- Palatine HillThe name Palatine Hill derives from the Latin noun palātum, meaning palate. Ennius used this word once to describe heaven.
- Villa BoscorealeThe eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried the villas of Boscoreale under layers of volcanic ash and pyroclastic flow.