Italy's Hidden Art is a part of Antika.it a website dedicated to free access and dissemination of the themes of archeology, ancient history and art.
Italy's Hidden Art is a non-profit project designed to provide information and publicity for the lesser known, threatened and underfunded Italian archaeological sites. Italy has one of the richest archaeological heritages of all the countries in the world and boasts an incredible 47 UNESCO world heritage sites as well as places like Venice, Rome and Pompeii. From the stone age Ice-man Oetzi in Bolzano, to the Etruscan sites of Tuscanny, the Nuraghe sites of Sardinia, renaissance sties like Pisa, Florence,, the Austro-Hungarian architecture of Trentino and Trieste, castles form Lombards, Goths, Byzantines, and Normans, as well as countless Roman sites, not to mention Sicily, which has more Greek remains than Greece itself.
Our sister site ArchArt is a large and detailed online archive of photographs that gives the user more than 40,000 photos of archeology and ancient art, all available to view for free, thus representing one of the largest collections of photographs on art and archeology of the Mediterranean countries currently available to the public online.
All our images are visible at no cost and without any registration on this site (and on linked sites such as foto.inabruzzo.it- a specialist site which is dedicated to Abruzzo). The decision to make all ArchArt images accessible and shareable, despite some galleries being protected by transparent watermark, is motivated by the desire to allow access to the archive to all those who need to consult it for study, research, scientific purposes and even just for the sheer pleasure of learning.
Finally, there is Archart.us, an English version of the archive.
Rome. Colosseum restoration to go ahead
It has been announced that private funding to the amount of $34 million has now been secured to ensure the long awaited restoration project for the great symbol of Rome, the colosseum. The Italian government announced last summer that it was in need of additional funding an d that it would open the doors for [...]
Trento. Tridentum, the splendidum municipium
Tridentum Under Piazza Cesare Battisti in the centre of Trento is a beautiful insight into the first days of the city. Here we can see, for the wonderfully low entrance fee of 2 euros, 1,700 m² of Roman ruins brought back to light during the excavation works carried out to refurbish and expand the Social [...]
Riva del Garda. Roman Baths
Riva del Garda is one of the major tourist destinations north Italy, but it is mostly famous for the beautiful lake and associated attractions – boats, windsurfing, restaurants, bars, clubs and themepark. There is, however, some historical interest with a castle containing a small gallery and museum. Less famous, and situated, strangely enough, next to [...]
Feltre archaeological area
Wonders of Feltre: the archaeological area Feltre is a charming little mountain town in the north of Italy, famous for sports and the palio, but also having a rich heritage. It has been inhabited since pre-Roman times, being described as an oppidum by Pliny, who assigned its foundation to the Alpine tribe of the Rhaetians, [...]
Pompeii: UNESCO findings
UNESCO in a risky Pompeii In 2011 there were further collapses in one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites, visited by 2.3 million people every year: Pompeii. Combined with the two collapses of buildings the previous year, most famousòly the gladiator school, this led to a much needed intervention by UNESCO, which sent a [...]