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At one point or another, most people have fancied themselves LEGO artists, creating miniature masterpieces out of the wildly popular Danish building blocks. For Chicago-based artist Rocco Buttliere, however, LEGO are more than tiny, plastic blocks-they’re a medium for exploring the world around us and the touchstones of human civilization.  Buttlie...

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When you contemplate a fly on the wall, I doubt that you ever imagine that fly reporting back what it has seen and heard. You know, chin-wagging about the goings-on of a body politic, dishing on gossip, scandalmongering. I doubt, too, that you ever imagine the wall being the one—er, the thing—doing the talking.  Such might be deemed the conceit of ...

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Traditional Roman pasta dishes, but also saltimbocca, supplì. And pizza. From pizza al taglio to pizza bianca, from pinsa to pizza e fichi to pizza alla pala. And again, maritozzo or ice cream, abbacchio a scottadito and artichoke dishes, Roman style or alla Giudia. Tomatoes with rice, coda alla vaccinara and Roman tripe. The typical dishes in the...

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“Every time you enter the square you find yourself in the midst of a dialogue.” So wrote Italo Calvino in his famous masterpiece The Invisible Cities and, perhaps, such an expression encapsulates better than any other metaphor or description the multifaceted and changing aspects intrinsic to these neuralgic city places. A true locus amoenus for tha...

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Do you want to join an adventure through art, nature and archaeology discovering Lazio and its most beautiful attractions? If you are planning your next trip, looking for unique experiences and emotions, today we propose you to visit a gem together right in the heart of this beautiful region, halfway between Rome and Viterbo. Our destination is Cal...

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For more than 30 years, one of Italy’s most well-hidden archaeological treasures has been an underwater village called La Marmotta. The site, with well-preserved artifacts, was discovered in 1989 in a lake just northwest of Rome and 23 miles upstream from the Mediterranean Sea. Found among its wooden buildings were five canoes, stretching up to 32...

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Rome Fiumicino Airport has been named the World's Best Airport for Security Processing by Skytrax, the principal rating and assessment company in the international airport sector. The recognition for Fiumicino, known officially as Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, is part of the 2024 awards from the UK-based Skytrax which surveys travellers...

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Dear friends, I just came back from a magnificent Verrazzano Day in Tuscany, in Greve in Chianti, the small town where the great explorer who first entered New York Bay 500 years ago was born. It was a beautiful day of friendship between Italy and the United States together with the Tuscan authorities, the new U.S. Consul in Florence Danela Ballard...

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The name “Cacciatore” (hunter’s style) derives etymologically from its original use in the rations that hunters carried in their knapsacks during their trips. The history of the product developed hand in hand with the evolution of the rural culture typical of the regions of the production area, which provide the raw material that is processed accor...

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Walking can be a way of life, but it is, above all, one of the easiest and most effective ways to understand the soul of a city, discover its secrets and savor its atmosphere: a “slow tourism” in other words, a more relaxed way of travelling and enjoying history and culture, which is at the same time freer and full of more surprises.   To find out...

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