Italy in Brief

Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff |
He’s remembered for renouncing his riches and devoting himself to a life of poverty. But Saint Francis of Assisi — one of the two patron saints of Italy and…
Travel
by Italy Magazine Staff |
While traveling by air is often faster than by train, these days flying is rife with delays, understaffed airports and airlines, and holiday-hijacking…
Culture
by Toni DeBella |
The Azzurri, Italy’s beloved national football team — darlings of the international football (soccer) scene — failed to make it to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar…
Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff |
It’s Verona’s “turn” for a little love from UNESCO: The city’s annual festival of street games, Tocatì — “it’s your turn” in local dialect — has been inscribed…
Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff |
A new free-access online database maps out more than 1,400 monuments, buildings, street signs and plaques that bear witness to Benito Mussolini’s fascist…
Lifestyle
by Italy Magazine Staff |
Black Friday mania in Italy is taking a backseat to the bigger-picture mood: 90% of Italians are concerned about the rising cost of living, 79% about climate…
Food & Drink
by Toni DeBella |
In survey results that are likely to surprise, well, no one, 73% or approximately three out of four Italians indicated that they have come across faux Made in…
Food & Drink
by Italy Magazine Staff |
As inflation-wary consumers face sticker shock at the supermarket and rates of food waste in Italy are on the rise, scientists have released timely research…
Food & Drink
by Alexa Ahern |
It’s been months since the alarm first sounded on the drought that’s been ongoing in Italy since late last year, causing the government to declare a state of…
Culture
by Italy Magazine Staff |
Transparent barriers erected around the perimeter of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice are turning the tide against the city’s infamous acqua alta (high water).…