NAPLES and I were not immediate friends. When I first visited 25 years ago in a study abroad class, we were so severely cautioned and tutored against the city’s supposed criminality that we ...
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VENICE is a rare city that, despite being rather small and at the edge of a country, attracts international attention on a regular basis. Not only for its precarious ecological position and we...
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I recently asked long-term expats in Italy – and a few Italians – to reveal their TOP HIDDEN SECRETS near where they live. This was part of a chat on CLUBHOUSE, the audio-only social netwo...
We’re all missing travel a whole lot, and if you’re a regular reader of this blog, what you probably miss most of all is the learning experience that you have every time you come t...
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LAURA MORELLI has recently published The Giant, a book that, ostensibly, tells the tale of the CREATION OF MICHELANGELO’S DAVID. But it’s also the story of Jacopo Torni, a much less famous...
I can imagine that the Garden of Eden might have looked something like this. Sunshine illuminating rich green carpets, abundant fruit trees circled by flowering bushes, tomatoes and basil plan...
As the world has moved so suddenly to ONLINE SOLUTIONS FOR SO MANY OF THE ACTIVITIES WE ENJOY, theatres, actors and musicians are unquestionably hard hit. The cost of an online event ticket is...
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“It often happens that we ourselves, although busy with completely different things, cannot prevent our minds and imagination from projecting some building or other.” LEON BATTISTA ALBER...
Summer 2020 is going to be, let’s say, “unique” for everyone. As soon as the first rumours of “being let out” were circulating, my thoughts turned to the summer holidays. How could w...
“Travel is always a leap of faith into new worlds: 20 of them in Italy.” While we can’t travel, author FRANCES MAYES AND TRAVEL JOURNALIST ONDINE COHANE team up, with a little hel...
Only in Rome, and only on a centennial celebration such as this, the 500th anniversary of the death of RAPHAEL, could it be possible to conceive an exhibition of more than one hundred autograp...
This article is by Claudia Cappo, a volunteer who is helping a group of Cinque Terre grape growers to raise funds for the maintenance of dry stone walls (click here for the crowdfunding). This...
As per tradition, I start the year looking for the BEST UPCOMING TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS in Florence, Tuscany, and all of Italy. I unabashedly prefer the Renaissance over any other artistic peri...
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SHOULD I GO TO THE CINQUE TERRE? Is the Cinque Terre too crowded? I recently visited to get the lowdown on the area’s mass tourism crisis and how it’s impacting the visitor experience – ...
In a world in which everyone is a photographer and Instagram aesthetics overtake our daily lives and travel experiences, it’s refreshing to meet a photographer who dances to his own rhythm. ...