The walled port city of Otranto in Puglia is Italy's most eastern town. On a clear day, if you gaze out from the city's walls across the Adriatic, you can make out the coast of Albania and the mountain ranges of Mount Çika. Just as...
Lake Como is rightly one of the most popular summer destinations in northern Italy and lots of people know the lake for its beautiful scenery and elegant villas. But there is more to Lake Como than meets the eye. 1. Lake Como is one of the...
Image of the Ara Pacis (above) by Rabax63, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Since 1582 our daily lives have been regulated by the Gregorian calendar, a solar dating system that counts our lives in days, months and years. The origin of this calendar goes back much further than this,...
Fireworks and celebrations in the street, a thanksgiving mass and a flotilla of Venetian barges – no, this is not a celebration of Italy’s win in the 2021 Euro Cup this past week but something more ancient and arguably even more important. This weekend Venetians will...