The castle of a well-heeled wayfarerRubiera: a story of renovation and sophistication.

Borderlands always exert a special charm over the traveller. They pique our curiosity; they make us want to understand the historical reasons behind the...
There’s an Italian saying, del maiale non si butta via niente – “throw away no part of the pig”. But anyone passing through...
Pioppi, Pollica. Not far from Paestum, Velia, Palinuro and Salerno. It was late August 2010, the end of a hot but not oppressively hot summer,...
Many things happened in 1905. Las Vegas was founded, the Transiberian Express opened, and Albert Einstein published the first fruits of his Theory of Relativity....
Piacenza is the most inland province of Emilia, and ever since the time of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus it has ushered the Via Emilia down to the River...
There’s always someone who has discovered some long-forgotten cheese recipe; someone else who has ground a type of grain that no one has grown for...
Without a doubt, pigeon is one of those animals that provokes the fiercest culinary debate. Some love it, some hate it; some do it rare, some well done....
It goes back a thousand years, Finale Emilia, and it has been a bordertown for every one of them. Today it divides the province of Modena from the province...