Places

Culture
by Carla Passino | Thu, 09/11/2008 - 03:11
What a strange mix is Turin. It marries the sophisticated grandeur of Baroque mansions with the graceful elegance of Art Nouveau palazzos, the marble…
Travel
by Carla Passino | Thu, 08/14/2008 - 07:08
Photos courtesy of ENIT The sun dying red in an indigo sky and infusing the sea with soft French rose notes. A candle-lit restaurant perched high on a white…
Food & Drink
by Carla Passino | Thu, 07/31/2008 - 03:52
Photos courtesy of ENIT The setting sun dances on a cornflower blue sea, turning the sky into a study of cherry blossom pink and tea rose, lavender and indigo…
Travel
by Carla Passino | Tue, 07/29/2008 - 06:02
Lake Como glints like a polished sapphire under the summer sun. All around it, the emerald embrace of Alps and hills shelters the waters. As the ferry leaves…
Travel
by Carla Passino | Thu, 07/17/2008 - 06:55
Photos courtesy of ENIT I am a beach snob. I realised this years ago, when I took my then husband-to-be to the Poetto beach near Cagliari, in Sardinia, where I…
by ITALY | Sun, 06/29/2008 - 03:18
Capri's panoramic via Krupp reopens to the public on Saturday after a restoration lasting more than 30 years.The official reopening will take place at 7pm but…
Travel
by ITALY | Sat, 05/31/2008 - 03:06
The beaches of Tuscany and Sardinia stole the show here on Friday when Italy's largest environmentalist group presented its annual guide to the best coastal…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Fri, 01/25/2008 - 09:35
Climate change is hitting the Alps hard with major melting that is proceeding faster than expected, an environmental report warned on Monday.The report,…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Mon, 11/06/2006 - 05:25
Interior Minister Giuliano Amato on Friday presented a plan to stem a bloody crime wave in Naples . Visiting the southern city one day after Premier Romano…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Thu, 09/28/2006 - 06:40
Italian scientists are worried about a recent landslide and other subsidence on Italy's largest mountain, the Gran Sasso . "These phenomena pose a potential…