How did this affluent gated community near Wrightsville ... Wilmington was named after the belief that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano made his first landfall in the New World in 1524.

This year marks the 500th Anniversary of Giovanni da Verrazzano’s historic New World voyage and a European’s first documented visit to Rhode Island. This fact should not go unnoticed! Verrazzano (1485 ...

In honor of the 50th anniversary, NYC Parks installed a re-cast of a sculpture of Giovanni da Verrazzano, whom the bridge was named for, at John J. Carty Park. The original sculpture, which was placed ...

came across the 500-year-old travel diary of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. The discovery took him to Windsor Castle, where among Leonardo da Vinci's papers he found a painting from ...

In 1523, Giovanni da Verrazzano, an explorer of Italian origin ... Meanwhile, in England, the public did not have any real interest in explorations to the New World and took time to understand ...