15 of the best places to visit near Milan
Milan is known as the shopping capital of Italy due to it being host to many of the most infamous design houses in the fashion world. Fashion is not all Milan has going for it. Spending time in Milan means that you can get lost in the streets taking in the great mix of historical architecture and the modern high-rise skyscrapers entwined with the l...
Italian-designed module could be on moon in 2026-27
An Italian designed lunar module could be on the moon as soon as 2026 or 2027, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Giorgio Saccoccia said on Friday. Saccoccia was speaking on the fringes of a meeting at the United States embassy in Rome with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy the day after NASA and ASI signed an...
What I Love About Each Of Cinque Terre’s 5 Charming Villages
There are places in the world that take your breath away and instantly steal your heart. For me, Italy’s Cinque Terre is one of those places. The rugged Italian coastline that makes up the Cinque Terre (Italian for “five lands”) attracts visitors from all over the world. The villages of Cinque Terre are different from most cities in Italy; here you...
Tuscany’s holy wine: It’s hard to put a price on greatness
Wine is an integral part of a Catholic mass, a physical representation of the blood of Christ present at the Last Supper. It’s not clear if that connection is the origin of Vin Santo, Tuscany’s “holy” wine. What is known is that the good friars of Europe planted vineyards to have a ready supply of highly alcoholic, mildly sweet wine for liturgical...
Spello, Italy is carpeted with flowers for Corpus Christi
Spello is a municipality in Italy’s central region of Umbria with roots in antiquity. Located about 10 kilometers (6 mi) from Assisi, on the opposite side of Mt. Subasio, like Assisi, it was inhabited by ancient Umbri until Roman occupation in the 1st century BC. Like the rest of the region, it was evangelized largely from the 2nd through 4th centu...
Denver Students Visit Naples to Examine Franklin-Filangieri Correspondence
On June 16, law students and professors from the University of Denver visited the Museo Civico Filangieri in Naples to examine the letters exchanged between the Neapolitan Enlightenment philosopher Gaetano Filangieri and the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Karen Schinnerer, Press and Culture Secretary at the US Consulate General in...
Summer: Italian art cities leading the way, 27 million presences +24.6%
The great beauty of Italy's cultural heritage is once again winning over foreign and domestic visitors. And art cities are bidding for the leading role in the summer: between June and August, 27.4 million presences are expected, more than 5.5 million more than in 2021 (+24.6 percent). This boom is mainly due to the return of tourists from abroad: f...
Fellini Museum (Museo Fellini) opens in Rimini, Italy
Rimini in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy may not appear regularly on travellers' must-see lists, being on the eastern Adriatic Sea, a far less photogenic coastline to that of the Ligurian Sea to the west, where the crowds gather on the chi-chi Riviera. But Italians love it for wide, placid-water-lapped stretches of sand that are home to a pleth...
Enrico Fermi and the "New World" of Nuclear Fission
"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". (Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission). These words spoken by American astronaut Neil Armstrong may also describe the amazing work of Italian (later American naturalized) physicist Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954). His first investigative steps, performed in Italy...
Bussana Vecchia, the country of artists
In Italy there are ancient hamlets all to be discovered as Bussana Vecchia that today are reborn and become popular tourist destinations. Thanks to the initiative of a group of artists this small Ligurian town once abandoned has become an open-air workshop where you can breathe art in every corner. Here you can know in detail what the ancient villa...
Alessi celebrates 100 years with playful showcase of rare and unseen products
Italian design brand Alessi has marked its centenary year with a Milan design week show where special-edition products are presented in settings that include a staircase covered in toilet rolls and a curling pitch. Staged inside Milan's Galleria Manzoni, the Alessi 100 – 001 exhibition celebrates the values that have come to define the brand over i...
First public statue of female scientist in Italy celebrates astronomer
Astronomer Margherita Hack has become the first female scientist honoured with a public statue in Italy. Hack, who was born in 1922 and died in 2013, was a high-profile figure for decades in the country, where she was a prominent science communicator and is credited with inspiring generations of young women to pursue a career in science. The bronze...