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Culinary tours and Italian cooking classes

15 April, 2020
While this might be confusing for Italians who can’t understand why you want to cook while on holiday, culinary tours in Tuscany and other regions, are nothing new for tourists to this country. Generally aimed at promoting local specialties, the…

Bathroom designs: Texture by Francesco Lucchese for Olympia

15 April, 2020
Texture the new collection by Francesco Lucchese for Olympia Ceramica has been presented at the Bathroom furniture Show in Milan. The Italian designer believes that sanitary ware can really create through colour and ceramic decoration something really unique. A series…

What to see in Rome: The Vittoriano

15 April, 2020
The Romans, it seems, do not love the Vittoriano; a huge monument dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy. It was completed in 1935 when Italy was ruled by Mussolini and W.W.2 was looming on the horizon. The…

Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta wants another child

15 April, 2020
From actress Monica Bellucci to singer Gianna Nannini, lots of women working in the showbiz wholeheartedly choose to have their children later in life. So it did not surprise me to hear Maria Grazia Cucinotta say that she is planning…

Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi fighting over divorce

15 April, 2020
Rumours about their divorce have circulated for months, but now it’s official: Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi have decided to go their separate ways. Mrs Trump filed for divorce in December and there’s no doubt that it will be a…

Pasta recipes: tagliatelle with mushrooms and rocket

15 April, 2020
Here’s a great Italian pasta recipe for late summer/early autumn with bavette or tagliatelle with mushrooms and rocket. A few other ingredients give it some extra zing, making this a great entree course for any season.Ingredients: 250 grams of bavette,…

Victoria Beckham on life in Italy: la dolce vita

15 April, 2020
Victoria Beckham has revealed that she loves her life in Italy, and that it could be a future for David Beckham and the family.In an interview with Il Giornale, the former Spice Girl has said that she loves “spaghetti bolognese”,…

Milan men's fashion week spring-summer 2011: Prada

15 April, 2020
Miuccia Prada likes to experiment a lot with new materials but even when she reverts to old fabrics as in this case, she knows how to reinvent them. In this new and exciting collection dominated by blue shades, she takes…

Christmas comes early in Cortina D' Ampezzo

15 April, 2020
Christmas in Italy is a well-planned affair and although it’s only October, in the pretty town of Cortina one can already feel December 25th in the air; the most sophisticated shop windows down its main street called Corso Italia have…

Rome by night photo gallery

15 April, 2020
Living in Rome often means negotiating traffic problems, transport strikes, and the daily drudge of routine and chaos. If you know Italians, you will find they often lament their own lack of appreciation for the beauty of their country, saying…

Rome guided tours on a Segway

15 April, 2020
Someone will probably say that this is very American, and I’m also inclined to wonder what’s wrong the innocent bicycle (which can be quite sexy, especially when ridden by Italian women wearing stilettos). But the firm Segway, after Florence, is…

Homemade pasta: recipe from Umbria, Italy

15 April, 2020
Believe me, homemade pasta is worth every effort, and you should always seek out the ‘house’ pasta in restaurants where you know they make it themselves, because there’s nothing more disappointing than paying money in a restaurant to eat Barilla.…

A sword in the stone, Siena in Tuscany

15 April, 2020
This could well be Italy’s version of the famed Tintern Abbey in Great Britain. The San Galgano abbey lies 30 km west of Siena in Tuscany, and has the majestic, lofty silence you would expect from an abbey. And to…

Video: Italian hand gestures. How to express yourself in Italy

15 April, 2020
Italian people are famous for the expressive way of communicating. Now, they will often combine the Italian gestures in this video with fast-paced, angry soliloquys, hysterical outbursts, sweet, ironic smiles or even as part of general conversation when relating anecdotes,…

Italian jewellery design exhibition in Milan

15 April, 2020
Milan will host an Italian jewellery exhibition next year called “Gioelli per Milano” at the city’s Triennale Design Museum. The jewellery on display has been collected by university lecturer Alba Cappellieri at one of Italy’s most prestigious universities, the Milan…