A Local's Guide to Alba
Alba: surprisingly cosmopolitan for a town with a local population of just over 30,000. Welcome to Le Langhe, the only place in the world where you can rub elbows with Michelin-starred chefs, truffle hunters, wine producers, and local farmers. Before UNESCO designated the Langhe, Roero, and Monferrato as World Heritage Sites, King Carlo Alberto of...
Why Milan looks like an art capital of the future
Italy’s financial capital Milan is shaping up to be the latest European art hotspot, as galleries join a wave of super wealthy individuals drawn there by an increasingly attractive tax regime. Entering the fray is the international gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, which represents artists such as Antony Gormley and Anselm Kiefer. It opens its seventh perma...
Oliviero Toscani, pioneer of shockvertising, dies at 82
Oliviero Toscani, the Italian photographer famed for his provocative advertising campaigns for fashion brand Benetton, died on Monday at the age of 82. Toscani, who was diagnosed with the terminal disease amyloidosis two years ago, died in hospital at Cecina near Livorno in the central Italian region of Tuscany, his family said. The Milan photograp...
Three of the must-visit destinations for 2025 according to the New York Times are Italian
The allure of design and art, the magic of a journey through rocks and nature. But also, the unique experience of a coast-to-coast adventure. It’s a trio of Italian destinations, focusing on cultural and sustainable tourism, chosen by the New York Times for its celebrated annual list titled “52 Places to Go in 2025”. This list gathers the best dest...
Celebrating the 415th Anniversary of Galileo’s Insight!
One of the most accomplished American sculptors, Greg Wyatt, described by Professor Sir Stanley Wells as America’s Rodin, decided to donate two new bronze sculptures of the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to my office at Harvard University. This week is special, as it marks exactly 415 years to the discovery of Jupiter’s moons, which is the insp...
NASA and Italian Space Agency Test Future Lunar Navigation Technology
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration. A technology demonstration helping pave the way for these developments is the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), a joint effort between NASA and the Itali...
Italy has developed a neurostimulator that enables paraplegics to walk
A research team from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and the Politecnico University of Lausanne (Epfl) has developed an innovative neurostimulation technique that has enabled two paraplegics to walk. As reflected in study results published in the journal Science Transla...
Phone conversation between Giorgia Meloni and Joe Biden
The President of the Italian Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, had a telephone conversation with the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, to whom she wished first of all to express her personal and the Italian government's feelings of solidarity for the terrible devastation caused by the fires in California. During the conversa...
Lavazza Marks 130 Years of Excellence in Coffee History
In 2025, the Italian coffee giant Lavazza will celebrate 130 years of history. Antonio Baravalle, Chief Executive Officer at Lavazza Group, says: “The challenges of today’s global coffee market require us to swiftly adapt to its continuous evolution to succeed. 2024 has been, given the adversities we have had to deal with, the year I am most proud...
In Mantua, you can climb the dome of the Basilica of St. Andrew
Since December 19, in Mantua, it has been possible to climb the dome of the Basilica of St. Andrew, the Renaissance masterpiece by Leon Battista Alberti: this new itinerary, which combines spirituality and culture, represents one of the most relevant interventions put in place by the Diocese of Mantua for the Jubilee of 2025. The basilica, the reli...
Why Alta Langa Metodo Classico is on a meteoric rise in Piedmont
The gastronomic capital of Piedmont, the small medieval town of Alba, is abuzz in November. Already with an enviable reputation for Europe’s best hazelnuts (think Nutella and Ferrero Rocher chocolates), it is truffle season in the region and the annual Alba truffle festival is in full swing. Well-heeled gourmands jostle with more ordinary visitors...
The most affordable towns to buy a house in the provinces of Rome, Milan, and Naples
Buying a home in Italy’s major cities is becoming increasingly challenging. In November 2024, the average property price for homes on the market in Italy stood at €1,873 per square metre. However, the situation is even more prohibitive in Milan, the most expensive property market in the country (€5,043 per square metre). Prices are also high in Rom...