Rome is a city that enjoys hiding things in plain sight. Behind its monumental avenues and famous archaeological sites, beyond the crowds moving between the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navona, there are streets that seem to belong to…
La Scarzuola is one of the most astonishing and difficult-to-define places in Italy. Hidden among the wooded hills of Umbria, near the small village of Montegiove in the municipality of Montegabbione, it is at once a medieval religious site, a…
The Sea of Rome, Where the Eternal City Meets the Tyrrhenian Ostia is the place where Rome finally reaches the sea. It lies only about thirty kilometres from the historic centre, yet its light, sounds and rhythm seem to belong…
There are cities that preserve a few traces of their past, and then there is Agrigento, where the past still dominates the landscape. Here, on the southern coast of Sicily, Greek temples rise above olive trees and almond groves, golden…
Most visitors arrive in Agrigento looking for stone. They come to see the great Doric temples standing beneath the Sicilian sun, monumental remains of ancient Akragas, one of the richest and most powerful cities of the Greek Mediterranean. They expect…
Venice is a city that has spent centuries negotiating with water. It travels through the city’s canals, reflects its palaces, carries its boats and occasionally rises high enough to enter streets, squares, houses and shops. Most businesses do everything possible…
On the western shore of Lake Garda, where the mountains rise almost vertically from the water, there is a road that appears to have been designed by someone who refused to accept the meaning of the word “impossible.” It enters…
A few miles from the traffic, fashion boutiques and modern skyline of Milan, there is a place that seems to belong to another country and another century. Hidden among the fields and woods of Castellazzo di Bollate, inside the green…
There is a path above Lake Garda where the mountain seems to fall directly into the water and the only way forward is to descend a staircase suspended against the rock. Below, hundreds of metres of blue water reflect the…
Imagine driving through the familiar Tuscan countryside, surrounded by vineyards, olive groves, cypress trees and Renaissance villas. Everything looks exactly as expected until, behind a thick curtain of trees, something completely improbable appears. Onion-shaped domes rise above the forest, red…