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Spooky Rome: Some of the Eeriest Places to Visit in the Eternal City
From extensive catacombs to spooky church tombs, Rome is like an instant haunted house and is a great place to visit during Halloween.
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Keeping Up With the Antinori
Italian wine enthusiasts (that includes most of us, right?) may find this past weekend’s 60 Minutes story on Italy’s Antinori family intriguing. Considered one of Italy’s premier winemaking clans, the Antinori have been in the wine business for more than 500 years. Today, even the Antinori daughters are in on the act. To learn more…
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A Peaceful Oasis: Rome’s Protestant Cemetery
Rome’s leafy Protestant Cemetery is the final resting place for Keats, Shelley, and Gramsci.
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Leonardo’s Notebooks Come to the U.S.
The Birmingham Museum of Art is the first museum in the U.S. to exhibit the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Bernini Up Close and Close To Home
The Getty Museum exhibit features 57 works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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Wine Routes in Tuscany
Tuscany has more than a dozen wine routes. These are known collectively as Le Strade del Vino.
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Italy Adds Two More UNESCO Sites: Mantua and Sabbioneta and the Rhaetian Railway
Time to add two more Italian sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In July, UNESCO inscribed the Po Valley towns of Mantua and Sabbioneta and the Rhaetian Railway, which passes through the Swiss Alps into Tirano, Italy. Both new sites are located in the region of Lombardy. Mantua (Mantova) and Sabbioneta were selected for…
