Things to find in Italy
3 legends, 2 haunted places, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
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- Carrara marble Gem & mineral ground
The whitest, most famous stone in the history of art. The quarries in the Apuan Alps above Carrara, Italy, have been cut since Roman times, and Michelangelo climbed these mountains himself to choose the block that became the...
Open it on the map - Carthage Legend
Founded by Phoenicians, grown into the power that fought Rome three times, and in 146 BC besieged for nearly three years by Scipio Aemilianus, burned, levelled, and about 50,000 of its people sold into slavery. The detail...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Herculaneum Legend
Pompeii got ash; Herculaneum got pyroclastic surge, and the difference is why this is the better site for some things. The heat carbonised organic material instead of burning it away, so roof beams, doors, beds, rope, food and...
Open it on the map · Read the story - Poveglia Haunted place
A small island in the Venetian lagoon with one of the darkest histories in Italy: a quarantine station for plague ships, where the sick and dying were sent, and later a mental asylum. It is said the soil is half ash. The island...
Open it on the map - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo Haunted place
Beneath a monastery in Sicily stand roughly eight thousand mummified dead, not lying but STANDING in their own clothes along the corridors, hung on the walls in rows by profession: monks, lawyers, soldiers, children. Palermo...
Open it on the map - The Shroud of Turin Legend
A linen cloth kept in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin Cathedral, bearing a faint front-and-back image of a naked man. The image reads far more clearly as a photographic negative than in its own sepia, which the...
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