Putignano is a small town in Apulia, Southern Italy, famous all over Europe for its extraordinary Carnival celebrations and the spectacular parade of papier-mache floats, which has an unusual revival even in summer. And that’s not the only good reason … Read More
Spoleto, a small town in the Italian region Umbria, holds every year an impressive celebration of music, theatre, visual arts and any kind of exhibitions. The event is called Festival of 2Worlds and lasts for 17 days. This year’s edition … Read More
Among the alleys of a small village are often hidden all aspirations, joys and sorrows of a people who has seen the world surrounding them changing, while their village was always the same. Through the streets, ceremonies linked to ancient … Read More
An oasis of quiet and stillness on the coastline of the Italian region Liguria. A place enchanted by silence, peace, and by the idillic landscapes of a village surrounded by the green of the trees and the blue of the … Read More
This summer I planned a long trip all over Italy, through some of the most fascinating towns and their most intriguing peculiarities. Then I suddenly ended up in Umbria, the only central region not showing on the sea. I thought … Read More
On Tuesday, August 6, the itinerant festival La Notte della Taranta – ‘the tarantella night’ – began in Corigliano d’Otranto, a small town in Apulia, Italy, in the hearth not only of world renowned Salento, but also of the so-called … Read More
Here we are, all seated around the table. I knew this time would come and I was really eager to enjoy it, but at the same time I knew the implicit dangers: the endless flow of smells and flavours started … Read More
I wasn’t but a clumsy cub when I went through the Raganello Gorge for the first time. During my summer holidays in Southern Italy, in an Italian-Albanian small village in the Pollino mountains called Civita, the gorge was our magnificent … Read More
I haven’t spent a visit to Civita in a long time. It is my father’s village, in the South Italian region of Calabria. I always went there for my summer holidays as a kid… When I’m travelling and someone asks … Read More