Travel

Rome is a city of ruins. Ruins are to Rome what canals are to Venice, and while other cities build over their past, Rome builds around it. My neighborhood, Testaccio, is mainly made up of nineteenth century apartment blocks, and …

As reported by the British Newspaper, The Guardian, Italy is planning to reduce the number of tourists to the Cinque Terre, a UNESCO world heritage area because the coastal area risks to be wrecked by coach parties and cruise ships. …

High above the steep rock walls of Capri stands a lone figure. Rays of sunlight dance and shimmer along the golden embroidery of the garments covering his large, well-built frame. Obsidian eyes search the green-blue sea laid out before him, …

You have probably heard your traveling friends rave about the Italian town of San Gimignano, how it is a preserved medieval village in Tuscany, and how it is a “must-see” location in Italy. Now that I have been there myself I …

The ‘ Via dell’Amore ‘, the famous path overlooking the sea in the Cinque Terre Park connecting Riomaggiore and Manarola, has been nominated part of the cultural heritage by Minister Dario Franceschini. While the document emphasizes the beauty of the trail …

Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square) is impossible to miss once in Milan, but what the tourists don’t know is that the original part is not the façade, but the apse! Why the Duomo has been made in Gothic style? Where …

Cala Mariolu at Baunei and La Pelosa at Stintino in Sardinia are Italy’s most beautiful beaches, followed by Tropea in the southern Calabria region, according to Travelers’ Choice Beaches Awards published by TripAdvisor.   The awards were given to 343 …

A classroom of children from the Alpine hamlet of Mosso in Piedmont are trying to involve other Italian children to raise money in order to buy the uninhabited island of Budelli, between Sardinia and Corsica.   According to a Facebook …

Did you know that Italy counts a whooping 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites? That makes it the country with the most sites on the World Heritage List. And while some are very well known around the globe – think glitzy …

My first trip to Sicily was as a six year old, on the passenger ship Marconi, on the way back to Australia. It was the 1970s and the handful of photos we have from the trip are yellow and faded. …