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Time and time again, Venice gets a bad rap for food. The problem isn’t the city itself, but expectations from visitors who come looking for stereotypical Italian fare, and the many tourist-trap restaurants selling what locals refer to as “plastic food” to make an easy buck.
Southern Italy boasts 145 significant sites, including museums, monuments and archaeological areas, yet has still registered a steady decline in tourists at the same time the industry has soared in the rest of the nation.
— Walking from the towns of Buonconvento to Montalcino as part of a weeklong trek through Tuscany, I was faced with a tough decision.How many bottles of wine could I reasonably carry in my daypack?
Opened last year, Orsone (the name refers to a castle that once stood on a nearby hill) is a spin on the European tradition of a restaurant with rooms in that it’s also located on the grounds of Bastianich Winery near the town of Cividale del Friuli, near Udine and 90 minutes from Venice.
A 19th century villa near Florence, Italy has listed for about $25 million, says Simone Rucellai, who inherited the property from his late maternal grandmother in the early 1990s.
“Italy was created as a gift to women,” says Susan Van Allen, a travel journalist and expert on Italy. “Though the pleasures of the Bel Paese appeal to both sexes, women are especially drawn to its treasures—from art that glorifies feminine curves to its fabulous fashion, food, and spas.”
The sandy beaches, Baroque towns and vineyards of southern Italy have made it popular with British holiday makers and second-home owners for decades, but a new study has warned the region is undergoing catastrophic demographic and industrial decline.
A film My Italian Secret reveals a very different side to Bartali's remarkable life. Directed by Oren Jacoby, the film shows how Bartali was part of a secret Italian resistance movement which helped hide the country's Jews during the Nazi invasion of 1943.
An Italian search-and-rescue operation of migrants attempting to reach Europe by sea is due to end this week, after rescuing around 150,000 people over the past year. The ‘Mare Nostrum’ operation, which involves a large part of the country’s navy and rescued on average 400 migrants a day, was launched after a boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa last October killed more than 360 migrants.
A virtual reconstruction in 3D of the famous late sixth-century BC Etruscan Sarcophagus of the Spouses is at the centre of a groundbreaking twinning between the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome and the Genus Bononiae history museum in Bologna.