See the world's best-known operas performed in an ancient arena in the heart of Verona.
READ MORE +See the world's best-known operas performed in an ancient arena in the heart of Verona.
READ MORE +Easter season is one of the best times to visit Rome. Here's how you can plan your visit to Rome and Vatican during Holy Week.
READ MORE +The Piatto di Sant'Antonio Abate is a winter festival near Assisi that features a parade of horses and a blessing of animals.
READ MORE +In 2021, Italy will commemorate the 700th anniversary of the passing of Dante Alighieri, known worldwide as the father of the Italian language.
READ MORE +Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Here's how to get tickets and prepare for Midnight Mass.
READ MORE +Italy celebrates Liberation Day every year on April 25. Learn more about its origin and importance.
READ MORE +Actor and life-long Roman Alberto Sordi was born in 1920. His home in Rome will open to the public to mark the centennial of his birth.
READ MORE +The ideal place in Rome to spend New Year's Day.
READ MORE +An Extra Palio - Palio Straordinario - will be run in Siena on 20 October 2018.
READ MORE +The Mille Miglia, a vintage car race that makes a loop from Brescia to Rome each May, has been on my radar for almost a decade. This year, I finally got to see the spectacle as the cars paraded down Rome's Via Veneto. Of course, I took photos...and some videos, too: The original Mille ...
READ MORE +Italy celebrates International Women's Day - La Festa delle Donne - with mimosas and a free museum day.
READ MORE +The city of Rome was born on April 21, 753 BC. In Italian, it is known as the Natale di Roma—the birthday of Rome.
READ MORE +Inspiration always seems to find me when I'm not looking and that is exactly what happened as I settled in to watch a few minutes of television last night. Lucky for me, I clicked over to Kenny Mayne's Wider World of Sports, a show on ESPN that puts sports into a cultural context. One of the ...
READ MORE +For more than 20 years, ADSI (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane), aka the Historic Home Association of Italy, has been working in conjunction with the owners of the country's estates and villas to bring to the public a program called Cortili Aperti, or "Open Courtyards." The annual open ...
READ MORE +Carnevale is celebrated throughout Italy, not just in Venice. Learn more about Italy's most popular carnival cities and traditions.
READ MORE +Like many of you, I have already started my Christmas vacation. So, I thought I'd check in one last time before December 25 and share with you some of the prettiest Christmas pictures from Italy this year. I've done this by creating a gallery on Flickr. My Buon Natale 2009 gallery will feature up ...
READ MORE +Rockefeller Center has nothing on this tree. The biggest Christmas tree in the world is, in fact, in Gubbio, Umbria. But this is not any tree. No, this is not a tree at all. Gubbio's Albero di Natale is a dazzling neon feat--and Guinness Book of World Records holder--that has been lighting up ...
READ MORE +Rome's famous Renaissance street, Via Giulia, is celebrating its 500th anniversary this year. And, the New York Times' Elisabeth Rosenthal provides the history and descriptions of the streets' sites in her article A Stroll in Rome With a Papal Pedigree. Usually an unharried street, Via Giulia is ...
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