The coastal holiday city that Italy has been keeping a secret for years
Along a path fringing the Adriatic Sea, I find families entering a play park and older couples walking hand in hand. This is Rimini, a long-time favourite coastal resort for Italians, which is becoming more accessible to UK travellers thanks to new British Airways direct flights from Heathrow, just in time for summer. My tour guide, Monia Magalotti...
Italy's ten most underrated cities
Italy’s biggest surprises aren’t in the guidebooks—they’re found down sunlit backstreets, over long lunches, and in cities you might never have heard of. If you’re craving something a bit more real and a lot less crowded, it’s time to look past the obvious stops. From tucked-away northern towns to brilliant coastal hideouts, some of the most beauti...
Earliest Humans Arrived in Sicily 16500 Years Ago
According to the Greek Reporter, archaeologists have discovered the earliest known evidence of human occupation on the island of Sicily in San Teodoro cave near the town of Acquedolci—finally proving a theory that was first posited over 75 years ago but unable to be confirmed then. Modern dating methods of sediment layers where stone tools, animal...
Semolini Dolci and Crema Fritta: the Sweet Side of Regional Italy
Among the many regional desserts that dot Italy’s culinary map, semolini dolci from Piedmont andcrema fritta from Abruzzo are two examples of how texture, tradition, and indulgence come together in fried form. Though they come from different corners of the country, these two sweets share both their preparation method and their cultural role as ri...
Giuseppe Tornatore Doc on Italy’s ‘King of Cashmere’ Brunello Cucinelli Revealed Ahead of American Academy in Rome Honor
Oscar-wining director Giuseppe Tornatore (“Cinema Paradiso”) is putting the finishing touches on a high-profile documentary about Brunello Cucinelli, the fashion designer known as Italy’s “King of Cashmere.” RAI Cinema has announced that Tornatore’s under-the-radar doc — chronicling Cucinelli’s rise from being a farmer’s son to becoming creative di...
Sicilia Val di Noto: a romantic itinerary around Baroque Towns in Sicily
Some trips just can excite more than others, especially when the pleasure of discovering spectacular places combines with being together with the person you love and sharing unique experiences to join in two. The ideal destination for your next trip as a couple indeed could be Val di Noto, a land in south-eastern Sicily rich in extraordinary histor...
Siena, the capital of elegance
Siena was perhaps the Italian city best loved by Vittorio Alfieri, who in his Autobiography, published in 1806, did not fail to praise itselegance, a quality peculiar to this city. “So great is the force of the beautiful and the true,” Alfieri wrote about Siena, “that I felt almost a lively ray suddenly brightening my mind, and a most sweet flatter...
Lingua di Procida, the lemon-based sweet made only on the smallest island in the Gulf of Naples
You’ll need 300 grams of egg yolk, 200 grams of sugar, 80 grams of flour, and a litre of milk to make a good lemon cream —don’t forget the zest and a vanilla pod. That’s where you start to make the lingua di Procida, a delicate puff pastry rolled out by hand and baked in the oven, sealing inside all the fragrance of the island’s signature citrus fr...
Italian parents deal with the problem of a too long summer break in schools
As every year in this month, Italian parents are facing the problem to manage the stress of their children’s unusually long summer vacation. Public schools in Italy officially closed last Friday, kicking off the traditional three-month break. Kids celebrated with water gun fights and tossing flour over each other — a long-standing end-of-school rit...
Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business to Implement Community Impact Projects with Italian Mountain Town
The Graduate Career Center at the Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, Massachusetts, will engage 10 graduate students in the implementation of three Community Impact Projects in support of Progetto Guarcino 2025, a comprehensive arts, culture and economic development campaign designed to build prosperity and improve...
Europe’s boldest AI project has a Latin name and an Italian brain behind it
The most ambitious European initiative in artificial intelligence doesn’t have a flashy English acronym — it’s called Diversibus Viis Plurima Solvo (Latin for “By different paths, I solve many problems”), or simply DVPS. Leading the charge is Translated, an Italian company known for building AI-powered language tools, in partnership with 20 organiz...
Italy’s demographic shift: toward a positive future?
Italy’s younger generations are living longer on average, but 2024 marked a new low in births, with fewer than 380,000 newborns. Meanwhile, alternative family structures are becoming more common and accepted, and the country is seeing a significant drop in school dropout rates. These are just a few of the findings from the latest "Population Report...