Christo's Floating Piers: walking on water, Lake Iseo, Italy
The artist Christo’s latest large-scale project links two islands and a town amid the stunning scenery of northern ItalyContinue reading...
View ArticleGomorrah director Matteo Garrone on how Italy inspired his new film
The Italian director used fairytale locations in Puglia, Sicily and Lazio to give Tale of Tales atmosphere and magicIn Italy, we have many wonderful castles. My location manager spent eight months...
View ArticleYour own slice of Italian Riviera: a remote stay in Liguria
At a cute fisherman’s cottage in 1,500-year-old San Fruttuoso village our writer has a secluded bay amid romantic Romanesque splendour almost to herself• Win a stay at a Grade II-listed Landmark Trust...
View ArticleInsider's guide to Palermo: mafia architecture, music and lamb guts
From architecture built under mafia dominance, to the challenges brought about by the refugee crisis in Sicily, journalist Anna Ditta gives us a tour of her flavourful hometown, stopping off for some...
View Article10 of the best small Mediterranean hotels: readers’ travel tips
Crete and other Greek islands were the most popular destinations when we asked for your tips on small, family-run hotels around the Med, with Spain and the Italian coast close behindContinue reading...
View ArticleInstagram snapshots: Pier Luigi Aldinucci in central Italy
The sweeping views, colours and movie location quality of the Marche and Tuscany countryside are superbly documented by a local residentContinue reading...
View ArticleBaroque and roll: a cycling tour of south-east Sicily
This corner of the island – where the architecture is flamboyant, the chocolate weird, and the wine miraculous – offers plenty of cultural and calorific sustenance for cyclistsIf the dog had not...
View ArticleThe whole hog – roasted pork, southern Italian style
No Puglia carnival would be complete without bombette pugliese – slices of pork neck straight from the butcher’s oven and dripping in melted provolonePuglia has a rich food tradition, with distinct...
View ArticleDiscover the place where ice-cream was invented: Valle di Cadore, Italy
Ernest van der Kwast, author of a new novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, was inspired by a valley high in the Dolomites – which mysteriously empties every summerWhen you think Italy, you think...
View ArticleCook your way round Italy's Aeolian islands
The volcanic Aeolian islands, off Sicily, are rich with the raw ingredients for delicious local specialities – though the squid often play hard to getPerhaps it was something about the light that...
View ArticleBulgari's €1.5m restoration of Rome's Spanish Steps hit by delays
Economic woes and bureaucracy hold up work on city’s attraction, leaving it closed at height of tourist seasonWhen Bulgari announced to great fanfare in 2014 that it was donating €1.5m to restore the...
View ArticleArthouse in Tuscany for creative types
Villa Lena is part rural retreat, part creative workshop – with an ambience like something out of a Bertolucci filmIn the gardens of a 19th-century Tuscan villa, a group of artists are mingling with...
View ArticleInstagram snapshots: Rajveer Johal on the Ligurian coast, Italy
Beautiful beach shots of sun, sea and the odd bit of shade … the Italian coast is a constant source of inspiration for the Australian photographerContinue reading...
View ArticleEat, pray, love: Five heavenly monastery stays near Rome
There are few luxuries, or double beds, but these monasteries near Rome offer divine food at budget prices and treat guests ‘as if Christ himself were knocking on the door’There’s nothing new about...
View ArticlePalermo holiday guide: what to see plus the best bars, hotels and restaurants
The capital of Sicily is a crumbling film set of a city with unmissable architecture, vivid street life, and a great choice of alfresco restaurants and barsLess than 200km from Tunis, Palermo is like...
View ArticleMove over Barcelona: four great alternative city breaks
For weekends away, we tend to stick to the same old places. Why not dodge crowds and high prices at these less high-profile – but no less interesting – cities: Parma, Cadiz, Helsinki or HamburgThe old...
View ArticleMaking the perfect limoncello on the shores of Italy’s Lake Garda
‘You need a lot of lemons and they need to be the very best,’ says the owner of one of the few remaining groves on the Italian lakes‘You don’t need a secret recipe to make great limoncello,” says Fabio...
View ArticleSunny autumn beach breaks in southern Europe
Summer hasn’t yet departed in southern Europe – but the crowds and high prices are gone. For an autumn beach break under blue skies, our writers visit Spain, Italy, Greece and Malta‘Cannier tourists...
View Article€2 to see Rome's 'mouth of truth'? That's no lie
Charge allows visitors to see the Bocca della Verità and take one picture with their fingers placed in its mouthLegend says that if you are a liar and place your hand inside Rome’s Bocca della Verità,...
View ArticleItaly’s best-kept food secret: the sagra festival
Italy’s food festivals are not just a chance to taste fantastic regional specialities, but also to delve into local culture – and autumn is the time to goItaly’s best-kept food secret is the sagra. A...
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