Silvia Donati

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Silvia is ITALY Magazine's Contributing Editor. She graduated from the University of Bologna in Literature and studied Print & Broadcast Journalism at the University of California in Los Angeles, where she has lived, on and off, for several years. She began her career in journalism working for a Southern California news agency before returning to Italy and going freelance. She has written both in English and Italian for a variety of publications; she has covered the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, where she had the chance to interview Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Pacino among others and reported live from the Golden Globes for ANSA. She now specializes in everything Italy-related.

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On August 6, Italy introduced new restrictions in order to access an array of cultural and leisure venues. The so-called ‘Green Pass,’ a digital or pa…
With a total of 40 medals won (10 gold, 10 silver and 20 bronze), Italy played its best Olympics in history at this year’s Tokyo Games.  August…
American born, Australian influenced, and now Italian resident and business owner: meet Kaila Terraneo, a young woman originally from Vermont who move…
Everybody knows Pompeii, and yes, if you’re in the southern Italian region of Campania, it would be hard not to go see it, but be aware that Campania…
Italy has just added two more sites to its long list of Unesco-inscribed places and monuments, art and architecture, for a total of 58 Unesco World He…
Bologna’s train station, known as Bologna Centrale, is one of the busiest in Italy, being a strategic junction of Italy’s railway network; it sta…
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci? What is the secret of his universal genius and extraordinary talent?  We may be a little closer…
The Church of San Gennaro at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte has reopened to the public after 50 years, and it promises to be quite the unusual…
When temperatures soar (and they do soar in Italy in summer - at times almost unbearably because of the combination of heat and humidity), what’s bett…
The never-ending saga of Venice’s cruise ship has just added another chapter - could it be the last one?  The Italian government has just announ…
It was a Sunday of great sports feats for Italy.  On July 11, 2021, the Azzurri, the national football team, won the UEFA European Championship…
With its 7,500 kilometers of coastline, Italy is a paradise for beach lovers. It’s hard to make a list of Italy’s most beautiful beaches because ther…
Your visit to Rome’s world-famous Colosseum is about to get even more spectacular: the underground section, where gladiators waited and wild animals w…
Many foreigners dream of living in Italy at least once in their lives. And not just as students. Now there are schemes that make it easier - financial…
As the Euro 2020/2021 enters the quarterfinals, we take a look at the most common questions about Italy's national football team and this year's Europ…
The ‘Uffizi Diffusi’ project is set to debut with five temporary exhibitions that will feature artworks from the Uffizi Galleries on display in variou…
Set in Portorosso, a fictional seaside town on the Italian Riviera, in the late 1950s-early 1960s, Disney/Pixar’s original feature film “Luca” is a fu…
With a year’s delay due to the pandemic, the Domus Aurea, emperor Nero’s opulent residence in the heart of ancient Rome, reopens with an exceptional i…
Whether it’s your first time in Rome or the tenth, the following often overlooked places will give you some great insight into the history, art and ar…
2021 marks 700 years since Italy’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri, died. Among the initiatives devoted to celebrating and remembering the author of th…

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