Alexa Ahern
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Alexa is a journalist and translator and has been a contributing writer for Italy Magazine since 2022. After trading in Missouri for Milan nearly a decade ago, she feels fully “Italianized,” using allora with unironic enthusiasm and complaining about bureaucracy like a veteran. Her academic background is in Journalism, Italian and Mediterranean Studies, and she is interested in human-driven stories about the land, food culture and society.
Articles by Alexa Ahern
Mystery shrouds the migration of the Walser people from the Valais region of Switzerland to the valleys of northern Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the 1…
Just an hour northwest of Milan, the city of Varese is an often-overlooked destination with a lot to see, whether you’re into culture and art or the o…