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My experience with tourists started when I moved to Ireland, in a city known for its all-year-round, endless flux of visitors: certainly essential for the economy, they also brought a colorful touch here and there, with their awkward requests, strange dress sense and endless photo-taking sessions in the middle of the street. Back in Italy, I found...

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A few weeks back we asked our followers on Twitter what they think are some of the most loved destinations in Italy. The response was quite incredible. “This will probably be the easiest question I get to answer all day,” writes one of our followers after telling us that his favorite destination is Capri, in the Campania region. Others mentioned th...

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In Rome there’s a saying, una vita non basta — a single lifetime is inadequate for experiencing this city. To really do the Italian capital and its food justice, you need a trip that lasts somewhere between a month and a year. But with a big appetite and a little planning, it is possible to eat extraordinarily well in a single day. The itinerary la...

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A record number of Italian beaches now boast the prestigious Blue Flag certificate of cleanliness and safety. This year 368 Italian beaches in 175 different municipalities were awarded the Blue Flag, giving Italy 10 percent of all Blue Flag beaches the world over.  The international Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) awards the marker bas...

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With long days and temperatures that are just the right side of hot, May is a great time to be in Italy. Here are a few ideas to help you make the most of this merry month. See sport- May provides some prime opportunities to watch top-level live sport.The Serie A season is coming to a close as Italy's finest football teams play the final matches th...

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Early evening: the perfect time for a stroll through Palermo’s centro storico. Eighteenth-century palazzi lined the streets, their windows framed by the ruffs and frills of Baroque stonework. Some were in a state of utter dilapidation, others alive with the sound of laborers bringing their stately façades back to life. From the dust-covered sidewal...

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Tucked away in the north-west, Gran Paradiso National Park offers a tangible sense of wilderness. Incorporating the valleys around the eponymous 4,061m peak, it has spectacular hiking trails but not the hordes that plague Italy’s prolific Alpine destinations. This is the country’s oldest national park, created in 1922 after Vittorio Emanuele II gav...

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The Tuscan city of Pistoia has banned new fast-food restaurants and sex shops from opening in the historic centre, as well as ordering that all store signs must be written only using the Latin alphabet. The tough new rules were set out by the city council on Monday, and apply to the entire historic centre of the medieval city. New shop signs and wi...

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IT IS 6pm, twilight, dusky and I am making my way through the narrow streets and alleyways of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Ahead of me is a codega, or guide, clad in the costume of the traditional Venetian, holding aloft a lantern that glints off her mask. In all the time that we are together, I never actually see her face. But th...

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East of Rome, stretching from the Adriatic coast to the Apennine mountains, lies a region of Italy that has not yet inspired the same fervor in international tourists as some of its neighbors. Abruzzo, with a varied landscape that shines in the hyper-regional cooking of its provinces, is one of those lovely stretches of Italy that feels, somehow, u...

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