Carol King
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Carol King spends her time between Sicily and London. She has been a journalist and writer for 30 years and a freelance for more than 20 years. Carol loves travel and has visited 36 countries - so far. Her appetite for travel has seen her track gorillas in Uganda, climb Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, visit salt mines in Poland and puff cigars in Cuba. Outside of the UK she has lived in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Modica, Sicily. After more than 20 years as a technology journalist editing various titles and writing for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal Europe, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, now Carol writes mainly on travel, art, architecture, film and history for books, magazines and websites. She has written about travel for TheTravelEditor.com, Frommer’s, Volotea Airline and 1001 Escapes, as well as Destinations Travel, Destination Weddings, Psychologies and Discover magazines. Carol also does guest slots on the BBC radio show Mondo Italiano and Australia’s Rete Italia. She loves Sicily: its nature, architecture, sun, sea, food and, most of all, its people.
Articles by Carol King
Carol King selects some of the most popular Easter celebrations in Italy.
Italy is famous for its spectacular celebrations surrounding Pasqua (Easter)…
As part of our ongoing series on ancient Roman life, to commemorate 2000 years since the death of Rome's first emperor August, celebrated in 2014, Car…
Any visit to Palermo in Sicily will benefit from taking in the city’s opera house, the Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele. Built in the Neoclassical sty…
Venice’s celebrated Teatro La Fenice opera house is a mecca for music lovers and dance fans alike. The theatre is second in importance in Italy only t…
Measuring just 765 sq feet, the Teatrino di Vetriano in the village of Vetriano di Pescaglia in Lucca is a small theatre. It is so small that in 1997,…
(In the photo: Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli)
In our ongoing series about the Ancient Romans, where we commemorate the 2,000th anniversary of the death…
The Teatro Massimo Bellini opera house in Catania is named after 19th century composer Vincenzo Bellini, who was born in the Sicilian city and nicknam…
The Sferisterio di Macerata (Macerata Sphaeristerium) open-air stadium in Italy’s Le Marche region dates to the late 19th century. Locals in the town…
Sitting on the white stone tiers of the Teatro Greco amphitheatre in Siracusa (Syracuse) Sicily, you can see Ancient Greek tragedy come alive. Designe…
Parma has played a fundamental role in the history of music in Italy. Conductor Arturo Toscanini was born there and the city was the adopted home of c…
In our ongoing series about the Ancient Romans, where we commemorate the 2,000th anniversary of the death of Rome's first emperor, Augustus, celebra…
Turin’s Teatro Regio (Royal Theatre) has its origins in the 18th century, when the Duke of Savoy, Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, commissioned a grand…
The Italian capital was surprisingly late in getting its first opera house: the Teatro Dell’Opera – originally named the Teatro Costanzi – was built i…
As the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth approaches - 26th April as when baptised -, Carol King examines the love affair between the ba…
Pope John Paul II will be one of two former pontiffs to be canonised in 2014. Carol King explains what to expect.
The world will see a first in 2014 w…
The Sicilian town of Taormina has long been a destination for the cognoscenti. It has been the Sicilian tourist destination of choice since the 19th c…
In our ongoing series about the Ancient Romans, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus, in 14AD, we find out…
In the 21st century, a baseball cap is the hat of choice for many. However, in the 18th century the straw hat was ubiquitous thanks to the inventivene…
Built as a palace in the 15th century, Palermo’s Palazzo Abatellis was constructed as a luxurious home by the then prefect of the city, Francesco Abat…
One of the appealing things about Italy is that each city, town or village has impressive architecture often of historical interest, whether that is a…