Everyone comes to Assisi for the Basilica. Few know that just below it lies an unspoiled stretch of Umbrian landscape that’s every bit as worth your time as Giotto’s frescoed walls. Bosco di San Francesco is a 64-hectare nature reserve managed by the FAI — Italy’s National Trust — restored in 2008 from what was,…
For a few weeks, in the heart of Rome, you can see up close a painting that until recently almost no one had been able to admire. It is the Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, one of the extremely rare portraits to have come from Caravaggio’s brush, recently acquired by the Italian State for thirty…
On Tuesday morning, those who made their way up to Assisi were met with an unusual scene: two white gazebos erected in the small square of Chiesa Nuova, counters bearing the red-and-blue logo, lights, a crew in full swing, and the piazza closed to traffic. The Council’s notice spoke vaguely of “television filming” — but…
It is 23:47 on a Tuesday in May. One of our guests, who has just arrived in Rome on a delayed flight, is standing at the front door of the apartment and cannot remember the entry code. She had received it days earlier by email, but that email is somewhere in an inbox that refuses…
Fifteen kilometres of golden sand, a seafront promenade that becomes a pedestrian zone at sunset, some of Italy’s largest amusement parks, and Venice forty minutes away by ferry. Jesolo is not a discovery — it is a certainty that finds a way to surprise returning visitors every summer. This guide brings together everything you need…
C’è un’idea che corre per Assisi nei prossimi mesi, e non ha niente a che vedere con la solita iconografia francescana. Michelangelo Pistoletto — novant’anni, padre dell’Arte Povera, una vita a spostare il confine tra arte e vita reale — ha deciso di fare un gesto radicale: proclamare Papa Francesco “primo santo dell’arte”. Non un…