Venice Postpones Tourist Entry Fees Until 2023
Local officials in Venice announced the entry fee for arriving tourists—originally scheduled to take effect in June—has been postponed until next year. According to EuroNews.com, the Italian travel hotspot approved the tourist tax as a way to help curb the “overwhelming number of daytrippers” heading to the city, as well as make up for the financia...
From the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines to the Parma Baptistery, the land of the slow mix is a World Heritage Site
In one way or another, at any latitude, we all have at least one place in our heart, a place that acquires subjective importance by virtue of a personal memory or because of the significance it is given individually on an emotional level. And yet there are intersections of coordinates which, because of characteristics that make them universally uni...
Santa Teresa di Gallura, the true essence of Sardinia
A jewel of the enchanting Sardinia ready to show its visitors all the charm and beauty of the Italian island, this is Santa Teresa di Gallura! The town is located in the northern part of Gallura separated from Corsica by the Strait of Bonifacio. Its jagged coasts and the turquoise-colored sea are just some of the elements that characterize the Sard...
What's The Future Of The Frecce Tricolori?
Le Frecce Tricolori translates as the Tricolor Arrows, but I find the name much more appealing in the original. Involving ten aircraft, nine in close formation plus a soloist, the Italian group is the world’s largest and most famous aerobatics patrol, with a typical flight demonstration including about twenty maneuvers in an approximately thirty-mi...
The Real Life Inspiration Behind Maserati's Famous Logo
Anyone who knows anything about sports cars knows the Maserati name. Once the luxury division of Ferrari, it's currently owned by Stellantis, a multinational automobile manufacturer founded when the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merged with the French PSA Group. But the Italian sports car's origin goes back to 1914 Bologna...
The 10 most beautiful beaches in Italy in 2022
The Italian coastline, with its almost 8000 kilometres, has countless heavenly beaches. From North to South, the coasts and rivieras take on the most amazing shapes, from small inlets to wide, sandy beaches. The Italian peninsula and its islands offer unique landscapes, rocky stretches with crystal-clear water and long stretches of golden sand wher...
From the poignant legend of Aci and Galatea come the most beautiful villages in the name of Aci
One of the most beautiful areas of Sicily is located along the island's eastern coast, the Riviera dei Ciclopi: this is a land where history and legend come together, enwrapping every place and village with fantastic and fascinating stories, from that of Aeneas, who landed here to save his friend Achaemenides, to that of Jupiter, who hung the bodie...
Master of plumes: Meet the Italian artisan whose feathered creations won over high fashion
In Duccio Mazzanti’s workshop, feathers run the show. Colourful plumes of every size and shape imaginable adorn the walls, decorate mannequins, overflow from boxes and closets, even litter the floor. This space, dubbed the “laboratory,” is where feathers are transformed into just about anything. “Feathers can be placed anywhere,” Mazzanti says. “Th...
Digging Caesar’s Forum: three thousand years of daily life in Rome
For some years, the buzzing sound of mechanical digging has been emanating from a green-screen enclosure standing beside Rome’s monumental avenue, the Via dei Fori Imperiali. This is because an excavation site lies entrenched between the broad avenue and the adjacent portion of Caesar’s Forum, which is open to the public as part of an archaeologica...
14 days in Italy: A complete guide to travelling by train for a whistle stop tour of the country
Looking for a greener, cheaper holiday this summer? Then Italy is the place to be. The Italian railway network is extensive. In fact, its tracks cover a whopping 25,000km. The impressive infrastructure has made cleaner travel possible at pocket-friendly prices, and it’s fair to say it’s changed the travel map. While some domestic flights still oper...
The Garden of the Gods in the Pollino Park
The “Garden of the Gods”, so it is called the area that affects this route in the Pollino National Park, which crosses the kingdom of the loricate pine. Symbol of the Park, the pinus leucodermis is a precious botanical rarity that populates the peaks and rocky cliffs of the mountains. Now majestic and straight, now shaped by the fury of the element...
Italian curiosities: did you know that Italy gave to Europe its first common currency?
Today, most European countries share the same currency, the euro. I am old enough to remember lire and the pain of having to change money at the airport when you were traveling: honestly, I am happy those days are gone. What many people may not realize is that, centuries before the euro was even conceived, the Old Continent had already shared commo...