For our Italian Delicacies series, we are heading to Sicily this week to tell you about the region’s classic tomato paste, 'strattu. When you visit Si…
Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
The Tuscan island of Elba, Italy’s third largest island after Sardinia and Sicily, is famous in history for being the location French emperor Napoleon…
In Italy one festival quickly follows another and no sooner is the Christmas season over than the Carnival season is upon us. In Tricarico [Matera, Ba…
The Museo Archeologico Virtuale [MAV] at Herculaneum has carried out a virtual reconstruction of the House of the Gladiators at Pompeii, making it pos…
If you are askedLe dà fastidio?the person is not asking you if you are fastidious! The word fastidio means “irritation”or “bother” so the expression m…
It has been announced that Pope Benedict will reach out to children, especially those who are unwell, at Christmas.The Pope will visit children in hos…
As part of the 2011 celebrations of 150 years of Italian Unity, the Italian Ministry of Culture is offering Italian and EU citizens a special birthday…
A novella is not a novel in Italian. It is a short story.A romanzo is not a romance, but a novel.So what do you call a book whose theme is a love sto…
A television advertisement for the new Renault Twingo car has been banned in Italy by both Rai, the state broadcaster and Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset…
There was never a street market like the one in Catania. If Modica’s weekly market has everything, Catania’s enormous street market has everything an…
Looking for Italy-themed Christmas Cards? Check out these great Christmas cards ITALY Magazine prepared!
We are sure that some of you will want to s…
Much confusion is caused to English speakers by the way in which Italians express centuries from 1000 a.d. to 2000 a.d., so let’s try to clear it up:…
Now here is a calendar for all you romantics out there, for who could go to Italy and not fall in love at least once? The country is so beautiful, th…
We return to Emilia-Romagna this week to take a look at what is probably , to Italians, the most famous New Year festival of them all – “L’anno che ve…
Last month, Italian showgirl Elisabetta Canalis, interviewed in the popular talk show “Che tempo che fa” revealed some fun details about her life with…
Visitors to Florence between now and 23rd January have the opportunity to catch the first exhibition entirely devoted to the art of Agnolo di Cosimo,…
Argentinian model Belen Rodriguez, whose star has risen high in Italy over recent months, is being blamed for the failure of the latest TIM [Telecom I…
The weather in Sicily can be capricious at this time of year and never was it more so than in the past week: on Friday Modica’s Chocobarocco Festival…
Every woman knows that a new pair of shoes can transform her outfit and her life and if those shoes happen to be high-heeled and red, so much the bett…
It is probably the end of the line for a bus driver whose determination to keep a promise to his lady love annoyed passengers in Rome on Tuesday, repo…