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.
Articles by Silvia Donati
The Museum of Paper (Museo della Carta) in Amalfi celebrates the long-established paper-making tradition of Amalfi.
The museum is located in a 14th ce…
Tourists and residents not going to the beach this Ferragosto need not despair: they will have many options to keep themselves entertained, as museums…
[Photo above: Zingaro Nature Reserve]
If you wish to avoid Sicily’s crowded tourist hotspots, but still want to enjoy all that the island is famous fo…
The former Lake Como residence of opera composer Giacomo Puccini has been put up for sale.
The large property composed of two buildings in the hillsi…
The Trevi Fountain is no doubt one of the most famous and visited monuments of Rome. The iconic fountain is undergoing a two-million restoration proje…
Cruise ships above 40,000 tonnes will be banned from St. Mark’s basin and the Giudecca Canal in Venice, it was announced on Friday.
Veneto Gove…
Is happy hour the way to heaven?
A priest in Palermo must think so: Don Fabrizio Fiorentino has come up with an original initiative, “aperimessa” (fro…
Cala degli Infreschi in Marina di Camerota (Salerno) is Italy’s 2014 most beautiful beach, as awarded by the competition organized by Italian environm…
Look up toward the sky tonight as it’s la notte di San Lorenzo in Italy!
The Night of St. Lawrence or Night of the Shooting Stars is one of summer’s…
The 71st Venice Film Festival, which opens August 27, unveiled the lineup of this year’s edition in Rome last week.
Festival director Alberto Barbera…
Former Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino, who is currently on trial for manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship over the Jan…
Leading Italian art critic Vittorio Sgarbi has come to the defense of George Clooney after the recent controversy over the ban to get near his residen…
Ten buildings in Pompeii have reopened to the public as of August 4; they include eight houses, a thermal facility, and an inn. They had been closed d…
A series of measures to protects tourists from pickpockets and fake porters are being implemented at Rome Termini train station effective August.
The…
La Notte della Taranta, one of Europe’s most important folk music festivals, begins today in the Salento area of Apulia, continuing until August 23.
N…
Two American tourists in Rome were so outraged when they found out they had been charged 42 euros for three ice creams and a bottle of water that they…
On August 10 every year, on the night of San Lorenzo, wine lovers across Italy enjoy one of summer’s most popular event: Calici di Stelle.
Many cellar…
The latest survey about the most popular tourist spots in Italy confirms visitors still favor the same destinations, with Rome, Venice, Florence, Mila…
Thermal baths, a post station, funerary monuments, a place of worship and a cemetery were recently discovered in Rome, where the streets Portuensis an…
The Egyptian Museum of Turin, which houses the world’s second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities after the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is underg…
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