There are many events all year round throughout Tuscany, but many are concentrated during the summer. Many sagre, food festivals, start in early summer and continue on through the fall as local specialties (truffles, wine, olive oil) come into season. If you are coming to Tuscany during other periods of the year, don’t worry as [...]

Vatican City, formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State, is a sovereign polis whose territory consists of a landlocked enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. The entire state is about 44 hectares and is considered a European microstate. It is the smallest independent nation in the world. Since it is governed [...]

The second year of RomeFilmFest has opened amid hopes that 15 world premieres, Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford will set the scene for a sequel to the city’s cinematic heyday.
Fourteen films are in competition, including Reservation Road, directed by Terry George, and Li Chun (And the Spring Comes), directed by Changwei Gu. Among the premieres [...]

San Marco Square is the heart of Venice. For over thousand years it has been the central point of the city. Nowadays, thousands of tourists visit the square every day, and almost all of them fall in love with this amazing place surrounded by outstanding works of architecture. The uniqueness of the square was emphasized [...]

Maybe no wine or tasty Italian desserts. No speaking dirty words. Abstinence from traditional pleasures. How do Italians prepare for 40 days of self-inflicted deprivation? Throw a party that lasts for weeks! From the Epiphany on January 6 to the beginning of Quaresima (Lent—derived from the Latin term Quadragesima, or “the forty days”), il Carnevale [...]

Walks Inside Venice are official Venice tour guides who offer customized and tailor made walking tours of Venice and the surrounding area. Their specialist itineraries are suitable for individual travelers or small groups.
Roberta, Sara and Cristina are also native Venetians with a background in art history, foreign languages and literature and have published books on [...]

Italy has upped arts funding 17% to a total Euros 441 million ($573 million) for 2007 in the first tangible sign of the center-left government’s more pro-arts stance compared with the days when Silvio Berlusconi ran the country.
Culture minister Francesco Rutelli has announced the boost for the single fund known as FUS, which includes film, [...]

Archaeological finds testify the presence of settlements on the Palatino hills, as early as the middle of the 8th Century BC. Little by little, the Roman community suffered change under the Sabina, Etruscan and Greek civilizations.
The legend of a sort around the foundation of Rome on the Palatino (753 BC legend of Romolo and [...]

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The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy’s top art exhibitions: BELLUNO – Palazzo Crepadona: Titian – The Last Act; this two-part show is also taking place in Palazzo della Magnifica Comunita’ di Cadore in Titian’s home town of Pieve di Cadore; it gathers some 100 pieces from the final years of the [...]