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  Art Nouveau Week 2025: Celebrating Italy’s Belle Époque The best bread award in Italy this year goes to Sicily Protecting workers from extreme heat: Italy's new workplace safety protocol ORACLE: Italy’s mission to extract oxygen from moon dust The Italian cities where life and work feel most rewarding DOP Tourism: a new model for travelling in It...

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Tuscany is renowned for its natural beauty, exquisite wines, and rich historical heritage, but also for its villages, towns, and small cities facing depopulation, causing damage not only to local administrations but also to tourism. With the "1 euro houses in Tuscany 2025" initiative, Italian and foreign investors are offered the opportunity to pur...

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Palermo is one of those places that refuses to be pinned down. With a population circling 650,000, Sicily’s capital is all about contrasts. Grand faded palaces, raucous street markets, peeling paint next to golden Baroque domes, and the whiff of panelle frying somewhere nearby.  It’s a city that looks a bit wild at first—gritty, noisy, and glorious...

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Italy is making significant headway toward meeting the European Green Homes Directive’s 2030 energy-efficiency goals. According to the report “Italy’s Path to the Green Homes Directive”, the country has already cut residential energy consumption by 9.1%, leaving just 6.9% to reach the 16% reduction target set for 2030. To close this gap, Italy must...

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Buying a 1 euro house in Italy has become a highly sought-after opportunity, and in 2025, Sicily remains one of the top regions offering this unique chance. The trend of purchasing 1 euro houses in Sicily continues to gain momentum, following the strong interest seen throughout 2024. Sicilian towns and villages face the challenge of repopulating sm...

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Every time Laurie DeRiu visited her father-in-law in Sardinia, she left enamored by the Italian island's beauty and relaxed atmosphere. "It's a totally different quality of life there," DeRiu, 60, told Business Insider. "It's not at all the hustle and bustle that happens, especially in the northeast." Though she fantasized about someday moving to S...

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Retiring in Italy on a budget isn’t just a daydream—it’s something a growing number of people are actually doing, and with good reason. Life here has a knack for moving at its own rhythm. Quiet mornings in a sunlit square, fresh produce just around the corner, and a genuine sense of community you don’t always get elsewhere. While the image of Itali...

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In 2025, 1 euro houses in Italy continue to attract the attention of many people from around the world. This programme, created to combat the depopulation of small villages and bring abandoned historic town centres back to life, also extends to the territories of Sardinia, enriching the island’s property market with a range of truly enticing offers...

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The living room at 1637 West Ritner St. looks almost exactly as it did 50 years ago, including the pink velvet couch (perfectly preserved under custom-made clear vinyl), the burgundy wall-to-wall carpet, and the tension rod lamp with its metal winged mermaids holding light bulbs aloft. It’s a regular South Philly rowhouse, packed with well-loved, w...

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When George Laing followed his dreams of buying a one-euro home in Sicily, he was prepared for the hard graft that would follow. Instead, he found he had also purchased a small treasure of old jewels and artefacts – some of which he has now sold for €2,500 (£2,100), which will cover a significant chunk of his renovation costs. Laing, 32, an antique...

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