Apples grow throughout Italy all year long. In some cases, the quality is the same from September, when they are picked, until the following August when the previous years harvest is depleted. The secret? Storing the harvest in a nitrogen environment which slows down the ripening process.
A trip in springtime on the old narrow gauge, [...]
Who’d have thought that one of the best places in Bolzano/Bozen for a South Tyrolean lunch would wind up being at a 13th century castle.
It’s a free 10-minute shuttle ride to get to the edge of town. Then, it’s time to work up an appetite by climbing the cobblestone path up to Castel Roncolo, (aka [...]
The perpetually poor and hungry Pulcinella (Pool – chee – nel – la) is known as a jolly bungler able to get by singing songs and playing his mandolin. He needs very little to be happy: only a slice of pizza and a jug of wine. It is for this that the Neapolitan people have [...]
Via Vittorio Veneto, commonly known simply as Via Veneto, used to be the bustling center of Rome’s dolce vita in the 1960’s and 70’s, filled each night with famous personalities, both Italian and international from the world of cinema, politics and business. In subsequent decades Roman nightlife moved to other parts of the city leaving [...]
Immersed in forested hills and composed of stylistically uniform and seemingly endless colonnades, lies the monumental cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa. The enchanting natural setting reminds one more of a villa with blossoming gardens or a museum rather than a 19th century cemetery. The sprawling burial ground covers 330,000 square meters, with 117,600 tombs and [...]