When is the best time to go to Italy?
Italy has more Unesco World Heritage cultural sites than any other country on Earth. Should you walk in the footsteps of ancient Romans in Pompeii, revel in Ravenna's glittering Byzantine treasures or get breathless over Giotto's revolutionary frescoes in Padua? It's a cultural conundrum as thrilling as it is overwhelming. But another consideration...
Mattarella marks 160th anniversary of Italy-US relations
President Sergio Mattarella issued a statement on Tuesday to celebrate the 160th anniversary of formal relations between Italy and the United States. "In the year that the Italian Republic celebrates the 160th anniversary of the country's unification, we also mark 160 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and the United States of America, whi...
Italy's first 'Covid-Free' trains to serve Rome-Milan from 16 April
First there were the covid-free flights between Rome and Milan airports. Now it is the turn of trains. Italy's first covid-free trains will operate between Rome and Milan from Friday 16 April, with only those who have tested negative for covid-19 permitted to board the Frecciarossa high-speed service. Initially there will be two non-stop trains run...
Reuters names Alessandra Galloni as its next editor-in-chief
Reuters News has named one of its top editors, Alessandra Galloni, as its next editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead the globe-spanning news agency in its 170-year history. A native of Rome, Galloni, 47, will replace Stephen J. Adler, who is retiring this month after leading the newsroom for the past decade. Under his leadership, Reuters has rec...
The 5 most famous arcaded cities in Italy
The arcades are an exciting feature of some Italian cities' civil architecture, renowned above all for this peculiarity. Many towns have got a street, a road, or a main arcaded street in their historic centre: in particular, there are places in the north-west of Italy, characterised by a higher rainfall index than in southern Italy and therefore ab...
Visiting Vulcan’s Lairs: A Tour of Italy’s Mighty Volcanoes
I confess: I have a volcano fixation. As a nine-year-old, I slept nervously in a camper van rather than the family tent while on a camping trip to Lassen Volcanic National Park in California. I wanted to be ready for a midnight escape should the volcano decide to replay its explosive eruption of 1915. Lassen Peak stayed quiet that night, as it has...
Sigurtà Garden Park, one of the greatest gardens of the world
Halfway between Milan and Venice, in the province of Verona, there is a breathtaking 600,000-square-meters park. Only in the last two years, it received four awards. In 2019, it won the “World Tulip Award” from the World Tulip Society. While in 2020, Tiqets crowned it “Best Attraction 2020: Global Winner” and one of the winners of the “Global Remar...
The 6 Bridges Of Florence
The city of Florence is filled with iconic symbols that represent it. One of the most well known is the beautiful Ponte Vecchio that crosses the Arno river. Although the other bridges in Florence are not as popular as their famed sibling, Florence actually has 6 bridges. Sadly, during the Second World War the Nazis bombed all of them except for one...
Mountains, five peaks and the abandoned village of Pentedattilo
Not farfrom Reggio Calabria, deep into the beautiful Aspromonte National Park and at the heart of the Griko-speaking area of the region (Griko is a dialect, vestige of the old presence of the Greeks here), curious travelers will find one of the country’s most famous ghost towns, Pentedattilo. From North to South, the ghost towns of Italy are man...
Postcards From Italy: Florence
Piazza della Signoria, arguably the most beautiful in Florence is outfitted with Michelangelo's David, Donatello's Judith and Holofernes, and other Renaissance sculptures. It also boasts two of the most prominent names in the Italian food world: Massimo Bottura, chef of the three-star Michelin-rated Osteria Francescana, and Frescobaldi, a noble fa...
Rocca Sinibalda: Lazio's most mysterious castle
The 12th-century Rocca Sinibalda sits on a spur of rock dominating the Turano Valley, a 40-minute drive north of Rome, on what was once a vital trade route between the Medici territories and the papal states. Looking across the valley from the opposite side, the Castle of the Eagle, as it is called, makes a romantic picture – a typical mediaeval fo...
8 remote places in Italy to visit at least once in a lifetime
Are you looking for unique, natural, wild, remote, not very touristy places but at the same time unique and easily accessible? Discover 8 stunning Italian locations almost entirely unknown, and plan your itinerary for your next trip. Punta Aderci, Abruzzo On the magnificent stretch of coast located north of Vasto, in Abruzzo, you will find one of t...