All Around Italy

Some years ago I was planning a family trip to Italy. The kids were in their late teens, my husband was in one of his grouchy, ‘I hate holidays’ moods and after a number of fruitless conversations I made a …

Perugia is famous for two things: jazz and chocolate. In July its music festival turns the city into an enormous jazz club, drawing musicians and aficionados from around the globe. In October a sweet veil of chocolate covers the city …

Luigi Tinelli arrived in America in October 1836, but he was far from an average emigrant. All his life he was a man of impassioned action – a political activist for the unification of Italy, a lawyer, a bright entrepreneur …

The first impression you get in walking down the lane that leads to the small chapels on the Sacred Mountain of San Vivaldo is a sense of wonderment and ease. As the road unwinds and the profiles of seventeen little …

A video made by MAURIZIO BIASCO, sponsored by FORNOCASCIARO.IT, COMUNE TIGGIANO and REGIONE PUGLIA, PROVINCIA DI LECCE, GAL SANTA MARIA DI LEUCA, PARCO NATURALE REGIONALE COSTA OTRANTO-SANTA MARIA DI LEUCA E BOSCO DI TRICASE, PROLOCO TIGGIANO, UNIONE DEI COMUNI.

Traveling to Italy in the summer scares the hell out of me.  Images of a massive hoard of sweaty, smelly adults and screaming kids packed shoulder to shoulder in a museum, of pushing through crowds on the street as my …

According to a judge who expressed his final decision on Tuesday, the Budelli island in Sardinia, popular for the pink sand, is now back to the public domain after the plans of New Zeland millionaire Michael Harte (who had bought …

Rome’s history dates back nearly 3000 years. And, amazingly, some of its oldest heritage is either still in use like the Pantheon, still standing like the Colosseum or still visible like the Circus Maximus. But Rome is an historic iceberg; …

    This weekend, Brescia will host the famous Mille Miglia vintage car race which re-enacts of the long distance race which took place in Italy between 1927 and 1954.   As the participation is limited to cars manufactured before 1957, …

The International Travel Guide, Lonely Planet, picked ten stunning European destinations that should be on travellers’ bucket list this summer: top of the list is Peloponnese, Greece, which is often forgotten as travellers flock to marvel at the iconic Acropolis. …