NEWS FROM : ITALY  

Zeudi Di Palma, 20 years old, from Naples, was elected Miss Italy 2021. Zeudi Di Palma, student of sociology at the Federico II, has represented the capital of Naples in the final having already won the sash of Miss Naples 2021. Tall 1.72 brown hair and eyes, Zeudi Di Palma had arrived in Venice with the title of Miss Naples, her hometown. A victor...

When Italian photographer Christiano Vendramin visited Santa Croce Lake in northern Italy in 2019, he noticed the water was unusually high. While the four-mile lake is bustling with action in the warm summer months, it lays dormant in winter. Icy storms had blanketed partially submerged willow trees in snow, freezing the scene in place. Positioning...

Venice is a city famous for both its canals and its incredible architecture. Venice started out as a cluster of islands that grew into a small fishing village in the early Middle Ages. Over time Venice transformed into one of Italy’s leading powers thanks to its vast trade network within the Eastern Mediterranean. The Republic of Venice was establi...

Every winter, the skies over Italy's capital are filled with the mesmerising sight of thousands of starlings swooping and diving in unison. But when they stop to rest on treetops, their droppings coat pavements and cars below - prompting the city authorities to scare them away. "We act on their fear by using their own alarm call," says Marianna Di...

Elegance, Nino Cerruti once said, got on his nerves. It was the sort of remark you can afford to toss off when you are easily the most elegant man in the room. And Mr. Cerruti, who died last month at age 91, embodied that attribute, a quality seldom encountered yet unmistakable when you are in its presence. “It can be learned, but you have to have...

Italian sparkling wines, which have been driving the growth of Italian wine exports for years, have also been the great protagonists of the strong recovery of Italian wine in 2021, both “at home” and abroad (pending the final figures that should confirm the record of over 7 billion euros for the entire wine sector). And further confirmation of grow...

An ambitious plan has been unveiled to recreate the 100m final from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics - won by Italy's Marcell Jacobs - in the shadow of the Colosseum in Rome. The "global sporting event" was proposed jointly by Italian tourism minister Massimo Garavaglia and Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri during a meeting to discuss plans for the 2025 Jubilee...

The pandemic seems to be in its final stages, and the desire to travel is awakening worldwide. ForwardKeys, a leading travel data & analytics company (and partner of the World Travel & Tourism Council, the international tourism organisation), has collected data on bookings for the coming months. The overall trends look incredibly positive. A few de...

An evening that includes Italian cheese and wine is a recipe for romance any time of year, but on Valentine’s Day, you want to pull out all the stops. Each one of the following formaggi has an extra special element of amore that you can enjoy with a partner or indulge in all for yourself. When it comes to wine, I suggest something bubbly, which is...

When it comes to finding Italy’s Tuscany without tourists, the region of Le Marche instantly pops into your head as central Italy’s “best-kept secret”. Stretching 100 miles along the Adriatic coast, Le Marche has mysterious mountain ranges, a rich farming terrain with picturesque rolling hillsides covered in vineyards, and plenty of charming histor...

The 2022 edition of the Cioccolentino festival takes place in the Umbrian town of Terni, in honour of St Valentine’s Day, from 10-14 February. The event is designed to unite chocolate with eternal love and there is nothing casual about the choice of location: a third-century bishop from Terni was none other than St Valentine himself. Under the titl...

A particularly powerful eruption of Mount Etna has created a volcanic storm that sent bolts of lightning dramatically across the sky over eastern Sicily. A volcano expert with Italy’s National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, said Friday that such volcanic storms are rare but can happen in particularly violent eruptions or with volcanoes l...