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
On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio, Carol King takes a look at his unusual home at Lake Garda.
Set on the s…
The Museo Archeologico di Salerno (Salerno Archaeological Museum) in Campania has reopened after three years of renovation work that cost €580,000.The…
A new TV series about Italian artist and inventor Leonardo Da Vinci premiered yesterday.
Described as an historical fantasy, ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’, is…
Tests conducted on mummies in Sicily are revealing what Sicilians hundreds of years ago ate and how they died. Italy is known for its collections of m…
Italy’s most prominent anti-mafia campaigner, journalist Roberto Saviano has launched his latest book.Called ‘Zero Zero Zero’, the book is about the i…
Italian sports-car manufacturer Ferrari has unveiled its new model, LaFerrari, which costs €1 million.The limited edition series offers 963bhp and is…
Carol King reports on how Mario Bergoglio was one of many Italians who immigrated to Argentina.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 17 December 1936,…
The Ancient Roman Temple of Mithras in London is to form part of a new building for media organisation Bloomberg.The temple dates to 240 AD and was re…
Figures released by the Italian government reveal that emigration from Italy rose by 30% in 2012 and that emigrants are becoming younger.Data compiled…
The Getty Villa museum in Malibu, California is mounting an exhibition of masterpieces of ancient art from Sicily.Called ‘Sicily: Art and Invention be…
Top Hollywood director Ridley Scott is filming in Rome for an upcoming TV series featuring the Vatican.Scott is known for directing the 2000 epic movi…
American public radio network NPR reports that an Italian music teacher, Francesco Lotoro, has found and resurrected music composed by prisoners at ca…
Nadia Santini has been named the Best Female Chef 2013 at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards.The Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef award is…
A rare collection of drawings of Ancient Greek temples in Paestum by 18th-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi is on show at the Sir John…
According to a survey ran by popular airfare search engine Fly.com, American travellers have Italy at number 1 on their wish list in 2013.Travellers w…
Painting by Giuliano della Casa The Italian flag is getting a new look thanks to 90 international artists participating in a show in Emilia-Romagna.Ca…
Photo by MacmaroonThere has been outrage at today’s suggestion to drain the city of Venice, making it a dry city.The Italian city is famous worldwide…
The first English-language edition of ‘On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st Century’ by Pope Francis will be…
Scientific experiments carried out at the University of Padua indicate that the Turin Shroud dates to the first century AD.The results of the experime…
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging an exhibition of rare Italian and Cremonese stringed instruments.The show is of the Sau-Wing Lam coll…