La vita italiana

Italy has the largest number of UNESCO World Heritage sites – 51 – but that number doesn’t even begin to quantify the immense (too immense to handle?) heritage of a country that, even in its most remote places, boasts some …

We all know winemaking in Italy goes back centuries, actually back approximately 4,000 years, when a climate ideally suited to growing grapes made Italy one of the most prodigious regions for this enjoyable beverage. Herculaneum archaeological excavations have even uncovered …

Mauro Borrelli, in more than two decades of activity, has been perfecting his visual craft, alongside undisputed cinematic masters, the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Tim Burton. In 2013, Borrelli realized the short film, White Shoe, a whimsical story …

If you ever looked for some information about La Barbera wine on the internet, the first association you may have found regards the Piedmont region and the Monferrato hills. Indeed, the story behind La Barbera goes back to the thirteenth …

Exactly one month ago closed Expo Milan 2015. Usa Pavilion was one of the most appreciated: 6 million visitors in the six-month Universal Exposition visited by 21.5 million people. Among them the First Lady Michelle Obama with Malia e Sasha, …

This is the story of two cities on two continents brought together by a visionary corporate executive and a mutual love of onions. In December, if all goes according to plan, Walla Walla, Wash., famous for the sweet onion that …

The Vatican is opening towards environmentalism with a special public art installation timed to coincide with the final stretch of climate negotiations in Paris.   On Tuesday night, the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica was turned into a massive backdrop …

You’ve probably never heard of the small town of Corigliano d’Otranto located near the town of Lecce in the Salento sub-region of Puglia. I know I never had and it’s another, among so many, appealing gems easily overlooked by travelers.   …

The first time I fell for the work of Francesco Camillo Giorgino, a.k.a. “Millo,” was the second I laid my eyes on one of his murals: a red-painted heart, amidst a surrounding black-and-white surface, that was being firmly hugged by …

For outsiders, the Palio may just be an ancient horse race, but, to the Sienese, it is much more than that: the Palio is life, they say. Hopes, dreams, passions, fears, battles, scheming and community: just as these elements are …