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“Art walks side by side with nature,” at Villa Carlotta, a 17th-century villa surrounded by a large botanical garden, located on the shores of northern Italy’s Lake Como. Facing the Bellagio peninsula in Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta was built for the Milanese marquis Giorgio Clerici in 1690 and extends over 17 acres. In 1801, the last descendant of tha...

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September 24 2021 Casalmaggiore, Italy

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CASA MUSEO DI ARLECCHINO (HARLEQUIN) is located in four rooms of Palazzo Grataroli, a stately building dating back to the 14th century. The Grataroli family commissioned several frescoes to embellish the walls of their palace. Not all survived the test of time, but those that did survive are interesting, to say the least, and they can be found in t...

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Every day at dawn, bird-watchers board boats at small villages near the coast of northeastern Italy to explore a natural wonder—the Po Delta Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO-designated site, where the iconic 400-mile Po River meets the Adriatic Sea. In the shallow waters and knotty reed thickets, visitors look for purple herons and pink flamingos, just...

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The Sky News documentary A warning from Italy, filmed in Bergamo during the first wave of covid-19 in March 2020, has won the International Emmy Award in the ‘News’ category. The hard-hitting documentary by journalist Stuart Ramsay took viewers into the emergency rooms of the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital as well as other locations in Bergamo and fe...

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Tis Travels is spending three months in Italy, exploring it from the north to the south. The first stop was Bellagio, on Lake Como. To say that one of the very best parts of my stay in Bellagio was the day spent with Chef Luigi Gandola at his restaurant, Salice Blu, is no small declaration. He is a fascinating chef, full of surprises. During the pa...

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Wine lovers from Ancient Rome through the present day have found much to appreciate in quietly beautiful Franciacorta, the name for a cluster of municipalities in the northern Italian region of Lombardy by the crystalline waters of Lake Iseo. In the Middle Ages, Cluniac and Cistercian monasteries dotted the landscape. Today, the area’s gently rolli...

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It’s curious to realize how we can actually see the evolution of society in a chair. If you do what the people at Milan’s  Supersalone  2021 did, putting 170 of them one after the other, you can even delve deeper into history, identifying whether a design was only a temporary trend or was going to be the game-changer of a whole epoch. It seems impo...

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Ciao from Rome! Summer is ending, “L'estate sta finendo”, as a famous Italian song from the summer of 1895 used to say: do any of you remember it? I guess not. We the Italians didn't stop all summer long: with the exception of the We the ItaliaNews videos, even in the hottest months we told you what happened in Italy and the things that happened in...

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After the victory of the European Football Championship and the extraordinary results obtained at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, this incredible Italian summer ended with another amazing sporting success, the one obtained by the unbeatable Italian athletes at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. An extraordinary feat, because with only 113 athletes, Italy...

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