Places

by ITALY |
The sixth edition of the World Urban Forum (WUF), the world's preeminent conference on cities and urban issues, officially opens today in Naples at the Mostra…
Culture
by Lyn Funnell |
Talk about canals in Italy and, of course, Venice comes to mind. But hundreds of years before its construction was even started, the city of Ravenna, to the…
Lifestyle
by Gabi Logan |
Italian Minister of Culture, Lorenzo Ornaghi, announced late last month that the long-awaited restoration of Rome's Colosseum, funded by billionaire Diego…
Travel
by Teresa Fisher |
Genoa does not yield up its charms easily, but to really know it is to love it. Teresa Fisher reports on a city of contrasts.Picture this: a small, compact…
Travel
by Anne Harrison |
The morning mists still swirled over the lagoon as the ferry approached Venice. At first all we could see were wooden channel markers (bricole) as they drifted…
by Gabi Logan |
Through the 30th of September 2012, villa La Petraia in the Chianti mountains, is hosting three of Flemish painter Justus Utens birds-eye-view paintings of the…
Culture
by Hugh Macindoe |
Only a few hundred metres from the back gate of the Boboli Gardens and the Costa San Giorgio will lead you to another wonderful, less crowded garden. The…
Culture
by Gabi Logan |
Abu Dhabi has announced plans to build the Palazzo Italia cultural centre and an Italian language school on its new cultural and residential island development…
Travel
by Gabi Logan |
words by Gabi LoganDespite the fact that it's muggy, searingly hot, and more crowded than a sports bar during the Euro Cup finals, summer is the most popular…
Culture
by Sandra Srivastava |
Bologna, the capital of the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy, has a population of approximately 390,000, including 80,000 university students. It is…