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
In order to celebrate the first century of the Arena di Verona Opera Festival, and to inaugurate the next 100 years of great opera, the Centennial Fes…
Carol King selects the Top 5 must-see archaeological sites in Italy.
Colosseo and Foro Romano, Rome, Lazio Ancient Roman Emperor Vespasian started con…
‘The Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown has said he would like Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni to play in a movie based on his latest novel ‘I…
Early French winemakers learned how to make wine from the Italians, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research has revealed…
Art restorers have uncovered what experts think is the first European figurative representation of Native Americans – in a Renaissance fresco at the V…
The Gelato World Tour 2013-2014 has started. The tour aims to find 40 gelato artisans, who will compete in the Grand Finale in Rimini , Italy in Septe…
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CNN ranks Italy’s Spiaggia dei Conigli (Rabbit Beach) as the second best in the world. The beach is on the island of Lampedusa of…
The latest Italian memoir by celebrated author Tim Parks will be released on 10 June in the USA. It was released on 6 June in the UK.
Called ‘Italian…
Veteran Hollywood producer Larry A. Thompson announced that he is making a film about the most famous art heist of all time: the theft of the ‘Mona Li…
Travellers love Italian cities more than any others in the world according to the world’s largest travel site TripAdvisor. Italy has three cities in t…
American rock star Bruce Springsteen was thrilled when he received a guitar-shaped slab of Modica chocolate. Created by a Sicilian patisserie, the cho…
The Lincoln Center in New York is staging a season of contemporary Italian movies.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is mounting ‘Open Roads: New It…
Imaging technology similar to that used in airport security scanners has detected the face of an Ancient Roman man hidden below the surface of a wall…
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American film director Quentin Tarantino is to perform a cameo role in a new Italian spaghetti western.
The director is known fo…
The ‘Second Sight’ photography and video exhibition at the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland focuses on migration.
Developed in partnership with…
Lebanese-born singer-songwriter Mika announced that he will be a judge on the seventh season of the ‘X Factor Italy’ talent show.
Mika will be the fi…
The second series of the British TV comedy ‘The Trip’ will be filmed in Italy.
The comedy series is directed by Michael Winterbottom, and stars Rob B…
Two dogs stood watch over their dead owner for two days after he died last week. The Italian media reports that the two small dogs guarded the body of…
A sketch by Michelangelo is being employed in an effort to help Italian youths avoid a life of crime as part a project using Renaissance art against I…
The Getty Centre in Los Angeles, California is mounting an exhibition dedicated to Renaissance gardens.
Called ‘Gardens of the Renaissance’, the show…