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.
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Ryanair has started three new flying routes to and from Sicily’s newest commercial airport, Comiso, in Ragusa, an area famous for…
In the photo: Centrale Montemartini museum
Museums in Rome are offering free entry to residents who donate blood.
All of the city’s civic museums -…
Italian company Piacenti Spa, based in Prato, Tuscany, is to restore Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, reports the ‘Vatican Insider’. The Church of…
Portrait of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia)
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Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissanc…
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The 48th edition of Marmomacc – one of the leading international events dedicated to natural stone, processing technologies, desi…
The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) is holding a conference ‘Italy Meets Germany: A Forum for Young Leaders’. The conference takes place in Ber…
Experts are revising their ideas about ancient Roman architecture following the sensational discovery of a large chunk of a monumental building with i…
In the picture: A rare selection of natural pearls from the Qatar Museums Authority Collection.
Photo © Creutz
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For the first time ever, items from Naples’ Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro (Museum of San Gennaro’s Treasure) will go on show in…
Annunciation of San Martino alla Scala, 1481, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘The Annunci…
Your guide to what’s on in Italy this autumn, from art shows and sports events to festivals and concerts.
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Forlì Arte Contemporanea (Forlì Conte…
Italian vintners say production of Italian wine in 2013 has increased 8% from 2012 and predict that the wine will be of good quality.
According to cr…
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The Parco Giardino Sigurtà in Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona, and the Villa Medicea di Castello Garden in Florence are the winners o…
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The number of foreigners choosing to tie the marital knot in Italy is growing.
Some 6,000 foreigners married in Italy in 2012 an…
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Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman village at a site in Devon, England, that has changed how experts view Roman Britain.
Sam…
The governor of Italy’s Veneto region has called on the European Union to grant protected status to the Treviso recipe for tiramisù in a bid to preven…
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The 2013 summer hit in Germany is a song by Italian-born singer Vito Lavita.
Called ‘Danzare’ (Dance), the song is the work of 2…
Readers of prestigious British luxury travel magazine ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ have voted Italy as their favourite destination in the world. Italy was v…
Above: "The Banquet in the Pine Forest" (1482/3) is the third painting in Sandro Botticelli's series "The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti", which illus…
The Fashion In Pfanner event returns to Lucca, Tuscany, for the second year running to celebrate Italian craft skills in fashion.
The event runs from…