Art and the Senses: the Mart and Senso

Stefano Caffarri19 gennaio, 2023

“Conceived as more of a cultural hub than a traditional museum, the Mart is a true ‘contemporary landscape’.” It is with this intriguing...

The Ferrari Museum, Maranello

Francesco Sorelli10 gennaio, 2023

The name of Maranello is inextricably, inevitably bound up with the name (and the myth) of Enzo Ferrari and the Ferrari car company, which was founded...

Taormina: the beauty and the goodness

Stefano Caffarri6 gennaio, 2022

Myriad are the legends and stories behind the origins of this magnificent Sicilian town, legends that are all the more intriguing for the volcanic –...

Oysters!

Stefano Caffarri12 gennaio, 2022

On the night of San Silvestro, known to most of the world as New Year’s Eve, it’s an Italian tradition that the table spread includes oysters....

A tale of beauty

Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan

Francesco Sorelli18 novembre, 2022

Villa Necchi Campiglio is a stupendous piece of aristocratic architecture, a piece of pure bourgeois elegance in the heart of Milan. To understand how...

Goldsmithing capital

Valenza: a precious history

Luca Bassi11 novembre, 2022

If you take the B-road 494, which bisects the most northerly corner of Lombardy, you will find yourself driving over the river Po and emerging in a different...

Rubiera: a story of renovation...

The castle of a well-heeled wayfarer

Stefano Caffarri2 novembre, 2022

Between the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia, around a border that was historically fought over more often than not, you come across the ancient town...

Diary of a trip to remember

Isola del Giglio

Stefano Frassineti24 ottobre, 2022

Yep, I felt like one of those teenagers on a school trip. Impatient to leave, itching to set foot on Giglio again after more than thirty years. My companions...