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THE ISLAND OF LAMPEDUSA IS Italy’s southernmost piece of land—it’s so far south of mainland Europe that it’s geologically a part of Africa. Just off its shore, there is a small islet called Isola dei Conigli (Rabbit Islet) with a rather misleading name. Rabbit Islet is actually not always an island, and sometimes a small isthmus of sand connects it...

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Although overshadowed by its more famous Tuscan neighbours, Arezzo has a charm all of its own. Arezzo, located at the confluence of the Casentino, Valdarno and Val di Chiana valleys in central Tuscany, is not in the same picture-postcard league as nearby Florence or Siena but its quirky, unexpected quality makes a visit here well worthwhile. Home t...

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I bought my house in a small mountain village in Abruzzo 12 years ago but I still can’t get enough of the views that I see from my balcony: in the south, majestic snow-capped peaks of the central Apennines, to the east – a turquoise stretch of the Adriatic Sea, in between – olive groves and picturesque old towns scattered over the green hilltops. ...

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It has become obvious to most of the world at this point that “going back to normal” after this health crisis won’t be normal at all. Things about our daily lives are going to have to change, even after lockdown measures ease.  We are now on our 38th day of lockdown, and we will definitely go past the definition of quarantine. Only essential busine...

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Seconda puntata dell'inchiesta firmata Elisabetta Canoro, online sul nostro magazine, che analizza gli scenari del turismo dopo la pandemia di coronavirus. Riflettori concentrari sull'asse Italia-Stati Uniti, un'alleanza strategica e fondamtale per il turismo di entrambe le destinazionii  Rilevante nel cogliere l’andamento di numerose imprese ed az...

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ROCCASCALEGNA IS A SMALL VILLAGE in the Majella region of Abruzzo in central Italy. The village, thought to be founded by the Lombards around 600, sits at the foot of the impossibly-built Castle of Roccascalegna. This extraordinary fortress is perched on the edge of a massive basalt cliff, and was likely built to guard the Secco Valley below. The r...

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At this magazine we have our flights of fancy. Our passing infatuations. Our mad crushes. Places that we fall for and fawn over but eventually we forget about and move on. But we also have our life-long love affairs, the destinations to which we return again and again, the cities and countries that we can never quite get to the bottom of, the place...

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THIS SMALL ISLAND HAS A long, politically charged past. During its many years of human history, it hosted a range of people, from exiled Roman women to the men who penned a document that helped inspire the European Union. Ventotene was first inhabited during Roman times, when Emperor Augustus had a big holiday villa built here. The Emperor later ba...

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Santa Maria Capua Vetere, simply known as Capua in Antiquity, was one of the most important cities in the Roman Empire. Indeed, Cicero called it Alter Roma (the “other Rome”) and in the 1st century BC Emperor Augustus had an amphitheater built here to celebrate a center so great it rivaled Carthage and o Corinth. The Amphitheater of Capua, or Amphi...

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THE SMALL ROCK OF ROVIGLIANO peeks out above the water at the mouth of river Sarno in the Gulf of Naples. According to legend, this tiny islet originated when the mythical hero Hercules, after returning from the tenth of his twelve labors, detached the top of nearby Mount Faito and hurled it into the sea. During Roman times, the islet was known as...

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