BBCNEWS The Travel Show June 4, 2024 10:37:00
It is estimated that around $6 billion worth of plundered art is being traded on the global black market every year. the carabinieri's cultural protection heritage squad have retrieved more than 4.5 million stolen artefacts and relics over the past 50 years. and i have come to their hq because i have been given special access to the vaults where they keep all the stolen treasures that they have managed to recover. could you take me on a tour? i would love to see more. it feels a bit like an aladdin's cavern here, with lots of strange and wonderful things to look at and the paintings, rows and ...