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Even to this day, Lake Tovel is famous for the red water phenomenon, unique in the world, although that does not occur any more. Until the mid-60s, in summer a special alga would come to the surface and the expanse of water would turn bright red. A number of strange stories and legends, such as the Queen Tresenga one, originated to explain this ext...

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The church and convent of Saint Bonaventure, built in the first half of the 17th century in Caltagirone, make up a monumental complex, full of many works of art. Located in the northwest section of the gorgeous Sicilian city, the church has a longitudinal plan with interior partitions making for five side chapels on each side. It features extraordi...

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The beautiful Ligurian coast that stretches between Portovenere and Cinque Terre is a beautiful landscape that is known for its cultural and its natural value. The disposition of the small towns and villages, the layout and the history of the settlements in this region are highly important and are the reason why it has been added in the list of wor...

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Travel may seem like it's all about doing the most these days — hitting up all the sites and recommended restaurants, posting personal photo essays on social media with day-by-day recaps of all the things you did and saw — but Italy is putting the leisure back in vacation time by celebrating a slow travel. The Italian government has dubbed 2019 the...

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Villa della Porta Bozzolo, just a few kilometers from Varese and Lake Maggiore, is a typical 18th-century “villa di delizia” filled with galleries, ballrooms, sitting rooms, bedrooms decorated with painted architectures, legends and allegories, triumphs of colorful flowers on the doors… in a nutshell, every little masterpiece of rococo style you ca...

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One of the most important pilgrimage sites in Italy are the Sacri Monti, or Sacred Mountains, that are located in the northern part of the country. These mountains are actually nine groups of churches and chapels created in the 16th and 17th centuries. Along with their religious significance these structures are also noteworthy for their architectu...

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  As the hydrofoil approaches Salina, the second-largest island of Sicily's Aeolian archipelago, it's not hard to understand why Michael Redford and Massimo Troisi chose it to shoot many scenes of "Il Postino" (The Postman). The 1994 film won an Academy Award for its tale about falling in love with poetry, and, to that end, there really couldn't b...

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Every year Sardinia celebrates the food festival called, “Autumn in Barbagia”. It involves many cities in the heart of the island, whose inhabitants literally open their houses to welcome guests and tourists who’d like to taste local food and wine. Is that paradise? Yes, a kind of. The 2019 edition is ready to get started and it will be running fro...

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Take an archipelago of seven small islands smelling of wild fennel and the open sea. Volcanic, sky-thrusting. Scattered 50 miles north of Sicily, the Aeolians are thought of throughout Italy as beautiful and natural—but mysterious. Volatile. Some 60 years ago they were near-deserted, but have since been passing between them the baton for southern E...

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Trieste's location near the Slovenian border, and a rich history which has seen periods of Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Austro-Hungarian rule, have resulted in a fascinating mix of cultures which has served to attract traders and artists to the north-eastern city over the centuries. Even its climate is unusual. The sharp winds known as the Bora c...

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