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Every single museum and cultural site in Italy has been closed since March 8th. Since then, the restrictions on movements within Italy have become much stricter. At the same time, the restrictions on coming into Italy also keep growing, with travel bans, flight cancellations, and airport closures. In Italy, we are all stuck inside and required to s...

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The majestic Forte Spagnolo, also known as Castello Cinquecentesco, is a castle in L’Aquila, Abruzzo. It is a classic example of military architecture but was never used in battle, and became instead the residence of the Spanish governor in the 17th century, later housing French soldiers in the 1800s and German troops during the Second World War oc...

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On your trip to the Italian peninsula, you can certainly not miss an in-depth tour of the Aosta Valley. The Aosta Valley region is a border region, rich in natural beauty and monuments, witnesses of an ancient and glorious history. We have prepared a list of the most important places to see, to allow you to face this new adventure in the best way....

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“Etna giveth and Etna taketh away” is the mantra of the locals who have lived in symbiosis for millennia with this imposing volcanic peak—one of the most active in the world—that looms over Sicily’s eastern coastline. Its uninterrupted belching of ash and dust for the past 500,000 years has coated Mt. Etna’s slopes in a fertile mantle of volcanic s...

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Museum of the "Pietro Vannucci" Academy of Fine Arts. It is located in Piazza San Francesco al Prato. The museum preserves a significant selection of the heritage of the Foundation Academy of Fine Arts. The collection, which began in the second half of the sixteenth century, includes the gipsoteca, with about 600 plaster casts, among which the gian...

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Our slow travel contributor this early March is Rocky Ruggiero, his education and travel company Rocky Ruggiero, Making Art and History Come to Life™ offers various online and television learning products such as podcasts, documentaries and blogs about Italian art, history and culture. His company also offers expressly designed 4-7 day travel progr...

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Friuli Venezia Giulia is a region with a complex history, like all border regions. Its culture is richly stratified: in fact, the blood of the Romans, the Lombards and the Slavs flows in its bowels. Of today's Italians. Its many monuments bear witness to this rich past, which we invite you to visit together with the many unsurpassed creations of Na...

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Set against the backdrop of the art world in Milan and Lake Como, The Burnt Orange Heresy has all the classic elements of a sleek neo-noir thriller—romance, greed, and ambition; performances by an international cast that includes none other than Mick Jagger (this is his seventh film); and, for good measure, a Hitchcockian plot twist. Adapted from C...

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The Appian Way, the regina viarum (queen of all roads), as Statius once wrote, is one of the most ancient and strategically important Roman roads. It was created in the years of the Republic to connect the Eternal City with Brindisi, in Puglia, and the Adriatic Sea. Named after the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, who was responsible for its ideation...

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Inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage List since 1982, the historic center of Florence is defined as a “unique artistic realization, an absolute chef-d’œuvre, the fruit of continuous creation over more than six centuries.” In addition to its numerous museums, with the Uffizi Gallery renowned for being the oldest museum of modern Europe, Florence b...

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