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The hilltop village, where the Knights Templar are said by locals to have hidden the Holy Grail, insists that documents dating to the 18th century prove it was never legally incorporated into Italy. It hopes its claim will boost tourism and attract new residents, saving it from the fate of other small Italian towns, where depopulation has left hist...

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Venetian cuisine is made with few ingredients but rich in taste. Although the city of Venice is famous all over the world for its immense beauty, art, architecture and history, few know its refined gastronomic tradition. Venetian cuisine: simplicity and influences from various cultures Venice was entirely built on water, built on hundreds of islets...

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The clock is ticking for Europe’s mountain areas. Demographic change through economic migration and declining birth rates mean many hillside towns face slow motion decline. But an EU project in Italy's Aosta Valley region has come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative seeks to protect vulnerable people living in mountain communit...

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Il Telamone del Tempio di Zeus tornerà presto in piedi. La scultura è una delle più celebri della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento e, al momento, si trova “distesa” tra le rovine. La direzione del Parco Archeologico ha completato la procedura per l’aggiudicazione dei lavori di restauro. Il progetto prevede, oltre al ripristino dell’opera, anche la mus...

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Valloria, near Imperia in western Liguria, has become known as ‘the village with painted doors’. Its center features more than 150 hand-decorated doors, each by a different artist.  Perched on a hill and surrounded by olive trees, in a peaceful location, Valloria is named after Vallis Aurea, or the golden valley, so called because of the harvesting...

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In the heart of the Lazio region, south of the Tiber river and north of Mount Circeo, one of the oldest testimonies of the splendour of the Roman Empire, Ostia, has survived for centuries. With its surface area of about 150 hectares Ostia is, together with Pompeii, the largest open-air archaeological site in the world The history of Ancient Ostia A...

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The Vatican and Rome have become vernacular synonyms, entwined as they are by history and geography. Yet the Eternal City has been home to many other religious groups besides Roman Catholicism for millennia. Scholar-filmmaker Jenn Lindsay has documented how religious Romans of various stripes have sought God this year, as COVID-19 stripped communal...

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The beauty of the villages of Sorrento, Positano and Amal is world famous, but today the normally bustling streets are practically empty. With fewer boats bobbing around the harbour and no trac jams on the coast road leading to the villages, it has an air of low season. The problem is a lack of visitors, particularly from across the Atlantic. The o...

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Whenever I am in Italy I have a penchant for staying in tiny towns. Inevitably, after seeing me for several days, because I also stay at least a month in each place, a shopkeeper, a barista, or some other local resident will ask me two questions, in this order:  Da dove vieni? (Where do you come from?) and Perché stai qui? (Why are you staying here...

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Il 30 giugno 2020 il Ministero della Salute ha sottoscritto l’ordinanza che regolamenta fino al 14 luglio le restrizioni all’ingresso in Italia per chi proviene dall’estero. L’ordinanza si basa sulla raccomandazione europea relativa alla restrizione temporanea dei viaggi non essenziali verso l’UE e all’eventuale revoca di tale restrizione (a questo...

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