Travel

Roxana Iacoban and Italia Slow Tour take us to Sicily where they taste local fruit and veggies vendor, Garco’s ricotta cheese. Here her story. Pierfilippo met me for breakfast in one of the bars in the main square, where I …

Victoria takes us to Lecce, a town in Puglia which has been called the “Florence of the South”.   Like so many Italian cities, Lecce has a fascination history and story dating back thousands of years. Although touched and influenced …

Sambuca di Sicilia is about to celebrate the title of “Borgo dei Borghi 2016″ with a special evening to be held Friday, August 19 . The ” Festa del Borgo ” will go along Corso Umberto, the main street of …

The little Balzi Rossi beach of Ventimiglia is formed by unusual egg-shaped pebbles. Here, apart from eating, swimming and having some quality rest, you can catch a small electric boat and go visiting the museum. Don’t miss it!   Visit …

The Bridge of Sighs in Venice is an iconic location. Tourists flock to take its picture, lovers and selfie sticks jostling for the best view. But few know the real history of the bridge, how it got its name or …

The oddest-looking buildings in Italy are the arcane “trulli”, unique circular dry-stone buildings typical of the region of Puglia, the ancient Apulia. There is nothing like them anywhere in the world. They dot the valley of the Itria river in …

A handful of days ago British company Tiziana Life acquired some very important Italian stuff: genes. Let me explain you better: Tiziana Life bought a genetic databank containing DNA samples of 13.000 inhabitants of the Ogliastra region, in the South …

  Roxana Iacoban takes us to Agrigento on her last day in Sicily.   Beauty walks: Punta Bianca Sunday had arrived. Only the 3rd day in Sicily and it seemed like I had been there for so much longer, both …

Want to wish upon a star? Every year, come August 10th, people all over Italy wish for a cloudless sky and, possibly, for a new moon – the perfect conditions to see as many shooting stars as possible. The Perseids …

A constellation of little hamlets comprise the commune of Framura, an atmospheric, somnolent village perched on a rocky outcrop rising from the Ligurian Sea. Though the authentic beauty in La Spezia province is just a 15 minute-train trip from the …