Italia! photos of the month: July 2018
We love seeing your photos and this month we’ve got some fantastic snapshots from all over the Italian peninsula – enjoy! This month’s winner: “Modica 2013. Cathedral San Giorgio Cathedral with More...
Viewpoint: Ponte della Maddalena
The Devil’s Bridge is one of Italy’s most beautiful, and most strange… The Ponte della Maddalena, otherwise known as the Ponte del Diavolo, straddles the Serchio river at Borgo a Mozzano, in Lucca, Tuscany. More...
Viewpoint: transhumance in Aosta
The transhumance of livestock in Italy is a tradition that dates back centuries, even millennia… Transhumance, the act of moving livestock ‘across ground’ to new pastures, has been practised in Italy More...
Viewpoint: Porticello Beach
Porticello Beach lies on the northeastern end of the island of Lipari, one of the glorious Aeolian Islands just north of Sicily… This pebbly beach on Lipari is notable for its content of pumice. Pumice mining More...
Past Italia: Pasta in Italy
This image of a 19th-century factory in Naples illustrates just how fundamental pasta is to Italian cuisine Where or when pasta originated is something we will never know. A lot of the problem lies in what we mean More...
Italia! photos of the month: April 2018
This month, our winning reader photos are just as spectacular as ever… here are our favourites! This month’s winner: “Assisi in October 2017, when visiting my brother and family, looking upon the church More...
Viewpoint: The Fountain of Diana
Close-up of the fountain of Diana, Archimede square in Ortigia, Syracuse The Fountain of Diana on Piazza Archimede in Ortigia is the work of the Italian sculptor Giulio Moschetti and was completed in 1907, two years More...
Viewpoint: Villa Rufolo
The beautiful Villa Rufolo looks over the resort of Ravello – offering one Italy’s very finest coastal views (as you can see!) In the Middle Ages, the Villa Rufolo was one of the grandest houses on the More...
Viewpoint: Isola Bella
Isola Bella – or Ìsula Bedda, in the Sicilian language – is aptly named… The ‘Beautiful Island’ of Taormina isn’t the only place of this name in Italy. There is a perhaps more famous one on Lake More...
Viewpoint: Pecorino cheese
Delicious wheels of Pecorino cheese wrapped neatly in red radicchio, leek and green cabbage – the pride of any Italian artisan food fair or market Photo by iStock Pecorino is a ewe’s milk cheese that, although More...