Articles by Manya Kaczkowski

Design. Functionality. Technology. After drooling over several lovely leather handbags—among the most fashionable in the world—at a shop in Rome, I ca…
Rolling down the A1 in a great big tour bus, I was desperately hoping that the toll road’s nickname—Highway of the Sun—would influence the day. We wer…
I stroll nonchalantly past the immense image of Christ in the Vatican’s Gallery of Tapestries. My guide, Giulio, tells me that people sometimes think…
Before today, I thought of Italian art only in terms of sculpted gods and goddesses, lively Renaissance paintings and fabulous architecture. That’s al…