The passion for travel in Italian craftsmanship grows
The hands slide, the gaze judges, the mind calculates and the heart feels. Matter takes shape and becomes creation. It was 2003 when Unesco decided that the time had finally come to recognize as a World Heritage Site not only the monuments it had managed to build in its history, but also its ability to create objects and experiences: the intangible...
Road Trip: 4 Days on Italy's Backroads, from Rome to Naples
The high-speed train flies between Rome and Naples in just over an hour, but I prefer to vagabond it between these two cities. I travel to eat, and I’ve learned in my 15 years of living in Rome that the artichokes and pastas you find along the way are, I’d wager, just as delicious as whatever you get on arrival. So I stretch the trip into a four-da...
Iced Coffee in Italy
As the summer temperatures hover in the 90s in Rome, the idea of a hot coffee (no matter how tiny those espressi may be) starts to feel less and less appealing. Despite the weather, it is typically hard to find large cups of iced coffee, with the cubes piled high. There are, however, local varieties of cold coffee if you want a refreshing drink dur...
Lega Serie A partners with Sorare to bring next generation fantasy sports to Italian football
Lega Serie A, Italy’s top association football league, today announces an exclusive multi-year partnership with Sorare, the player-owned fantasy sports game leveraging non-fungible tokens. Fans, collectors and players from across the globe will now be able to collect, trade and play with digital cards from Italy’s most celebrated and prestigious fo...
Rome’s Colosseum has just been given an actual price tag — and it’s big
Rome’s Colosseum is the city’s—and arguably Italy’s—most iconic and historic monument. It may also be the country’s biggest cash cow. The nearly-2,000 year old amphitheater sits in the heart of ancient Rome, and its emblematic nature has placed it on the bucket lists of many world travelers, attracting well over seven million visitors annually befo...
Meet The Man Disrupting The Italian Wine Industry
Winemaking is an art born of centuries of tradition. In Italy it even stretches back millennia—to the times of Roman antiquity. Riccardo Pasqua is certainly no stranger to traditionalism. As the CEO of Pasqua Winery in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, he is the third generation steward of the family business. And that business is booming. But t...
The Adriatic city, the ‘other’ side of Italy
Also known in the past as sinus, inlet or gulf, the Adriatic is the maritime corridor that united Europe and the Levant for over a millennium. The Serenissima Republic of Venice established itself as a commercial superpower by expanding its relations with Asia and the Middle East. Today, the Gulf of Venice and in general the North Adriatic area cou...
GLADIATORS - Superstars in life and death
In the morning fights and hunts of exotic animals like lions or elephants, at noon mass slaughters of convicted criminals and prisoners of war and in the evening the royal class - gladiator fights. A completely normal day in the Colosseum in ancient times. What at first reads only as bloodthirsty and cruel had a purpose for the programme makers. Ro...
An Active, Independent Vacation in Italy Has Never Been Easier
There are two kinds of travelers in the world — those who enjoy the carefree luxury of having their itineraries planned out for them, and those who love to leave everything to chance as they set off on their big adventure. Wait. Scratch that! There are a lot more than two kinds of travelers out there. There are travelers who love to be independent,...
Exports of Apulian extra virgin olive oil are skyrocketing
Export sales of Apulian extra virgin olive oils are soaring, with a jump of +51% in the first six months of 2022 (compared to the same period last year), even though drought and production costs, have risen by more than +20% due to speculation and the conflict in Ukraine, are jeopardizing the viability of producers. This is according to an analysis...
Val di Noto, Sicily Map and Travel Guide
Val di Noto, called the Noto Valley in error, is instead a geographical territory in southeastern Italy notable for cities built in the late Sicilian Baroque style. An earthquake in 1693 leveled the towns that existed, requiring them to be rebuilt; the emergency reorganization caused a harmonious and rather homogeneous structure based on the styles...
Basilica of St. John Lateran - Why it's one of the most important churches in Rome
Why is the Basilica of St. John Lateran one of the most important Catholic churches in Rome if not the world? Read on to discover why this cathedral is so important, and how you can visit it. Why is the Basilica of St John Lateran important? While there are 4 papal basilicas in the world, all in Rome, St. John Lateran is the most important of them...