Rome villa with world's only Caravaggio mural is for sale
Italy's real estate and art worlds are all a flutter over the news that Rome's Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, better known as Villa Aurora, is on the market for almost half a billion euro. The sumptuous villa, hidden by high walls near Via Veneto, has been owned by the noble Ludovisi family since the 16th century. The historic property is al...
Verona, a Unesco city for lovers
Verona, the provincial capital of Veneto, is often called a city for lovers. Shakespeare set right here his masterpiece "Romeo and Juliet" and there are hundreds of couples who every day queue to visit the famous balcony from which the author took inspiration. But Verona actually has other attractions that can make you fall in love and that classif...
Enjoy an Italian Food Festival (Sagra) Using These Expressions
For most Italian citizens autumn means the end of the holiday season and the moment to get back to work. But for Italian farmers – contadini –autumn marks the time to reap the fruits of their labor and celebrate. Sagra is a perfect occasion for that. The word “Sagra” derives from the latin “sacrum”, which, initially, in ancient times, was a commun...
Today is the World Pasta Day, symbol of the world that starts again
Today is World Pasta Day: the day of pasta, symbol of Italian excellence and also of the world that is starting again. To take a look at the numbers concerning this phenomenon, 2021 shows a constantly growing trend worth about 17 million tons of spaghetti consumed. What makes pasta unique is its ability to intercept those trends that see the global...
Valentino Rossi: Italy honours MotoGP racing legend
Valentino Rossi, the Italian professional motorcycle road racer and multiple time MotoGP World Champion, made his last race in Italy on Sunday before he retires next month after a celebrated 26-year career in the sport. The Italian racing legend - known as The Doctor - raced in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in front of a crowd of emotional fans at...
Deaf basketball, the Italian women's national team on the roof of Europe
The national women's deaf basketball team climbs onto the roof of Europe. In the final of the European Championships, the Italian team defeated a solid and prepared Russia 63-61, after a hard-fought match, and climbed onto the highest step of the podium. "It's a circle that closes - says Beatrice Terenzi - because at home we presented ourselves at...
Elia Viviani: another gold for Italy in the World Track Cycling Championships
Elia Viviani golden! Finally Elia, the Prophet of our track, born in Isola della Scala (Verona) on February 7, 1989. Gold in the Elimination in the last race of the Track World Championships in the Jean Stablinski velodrome in Roubaix, France, beating the Portuguese Leitao in the last sprint. After four medals, here is his first gold on track, his...
Nicola Bartolini makes history: world gold in the free body for Italy after 108 years
Nicola Bartolini won the gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, free body specialty. In Kytakyushu, Japan, the 25-year-old from Quartu Sant'Elena won by performing an exercise with very few flaws that earned him the remarkable score of 14,800. The last time an Italian athlete won a gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championship...
Italy's Uffizi is the Best Museum in the World, says Time Out
The Uffizi in Florence has come first in a list of the best museums and galleries in the world according to Time Out magazine. The Uffizi, the only Italian museum in the global top 20 list, saw off heavyweights such as the Louvre and the Tate Modern to claim the top spot. "There are so many dazzling classical works in the Uffizi that some visitors...
Pietro Viola, a business consultant helping his clients with cartoons
Some people look up a new word in the dictionary every day, others draw a cartoon: Pietro Viola is one of the latter. He is an accountant and business consultant based in Palermo, but at night he “transforms” into a cartoonist: a passion that started during lockdown, and has only grown since it turned out to be a surprisingly valuable asset for his...
Sanctuary of St Romedio in Val di Non: one of Europe’s most suggestive locations
In Italy there are incredible and wonderful places with a lot of history. In particular, in the Trentino area there is one of the most characteristic refuges of Europe. It is the Sancturay of St Romedio In Val di Non, a mangnificent example of classic Christian art from the Middle Ages, built on top of a spur of rocks 700 meter high. This place is...
The Insider’s Guide to Traveling Italy
For centuries, Italy was the preferred destination for poetically-minded nobles from across northern Europe. The “grand tour” was an exercise in communing with the ancient Roman world at a time when it was considered the height of culture to contemplate its romantically crumbling relics and vine-clad temples. But these “grand trippers” gave little...