Toni DeBella
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Toni DeBella is a freelance travel, lifestyle and digital content writer based in Orvieto, Italy. Her work has been featured in such publications as The Telegraph, Fodor’s, Walks of Italy, Culture Trip, Frommers, Family Handyman, Birds & Blooms and more. Most recently she co-authored the 2020 edition of DK Eyewitness Sicily travel guide. When Toni is not roaming around Europe, you’ll find her tending her alley-side container garden or honing her clay-court tennis game.
Articles by Toni DeBella
If you’re looking for a feel-good rom-com set in Tuscany, I might suggest sticking with the classics rather than straining your way through Netflix’s…
This weekend marked 461 years since Galileo Galilei came into the world and began building a legacy that would inspire countless curious people to rea…
Board games aren’t the sort of entertainment people tend to get up in arms about — but in Italy, certain themes are never child’s play.When the b…
This was supposed to be a banner year in the international spotlight for Agrigento, Italian Capital of Culture for 2025. But the early days of th…
It’s turning out to be quite a Jubilee year for Pope Francis in more ways than one: Earlier this week, the pontiff was awarded the Presidential Medal…
Rosita Missoni, matriarch of the fashion label that bears her family name, best known for its colorful knitwear, passed away peacefully last week in h…
Ed., November 24: After significant protest by Perugia residents, the Blue Moon production has moved to Olevano Romano in Lazio. Corriere della Sera…
Melting glaciers in the Alps have prompted Italy and Switzerland to redraw their border to compensate for the ever-shifting landmass.
According…
The recent announcement by US food manufacturer The Kraft Heinz Company that it’s planning to fill UK supermarket shelves with tinned spaghetti alla c…
There’s no place like Rome. But sometimes, amid the chaos and crowds and crushing history, we all need a little break from the serious stuff.
Spendin…
The Venetian gondola is an Italian icon — and the gondoliers who pilot them have one of the most recognizable professions in the world.
Since 1…
Ferragosto, or August 15, is the peak of summer vacation season in Italy and a revered public holiday.
But the slower summer mood is hardly con…
Tuscan-born tennis player Jasmine Paolini, 28, smashed a glass ceiling with her teammate Sara Errani, 37, when the duo took home the Olympic gold meda…
Via Appia is a 2,300-year-old autostrada.
Its innovation was unmatched in ancient Rome, and it opened up the gateway to migration and comm…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has paid lip service to sustainability, but seemingly didn’t get the memo that slow, eco-friendly Italian travel is in and po…
Ed., July 7, 2024: The early Titian masterpiece in question ultimately set a new auction record for the artist, selling for $22.1 million at Christie’…
Elegant French actress Anouk Aimée, well-known in Italy for her roles as a despondent femme fatale in La dolce vita (1960) and a long-suffering wife i…
Florence’s Bargello Museum reopened its Maiolica Room and Islamic Hall to the public earlier this week after a nine-month reconfiguration.
The Maioli…
The airport security facial recognition technology dubbed “FaceBoarding” debuted in Italy at Milan’s Linate Airport earlier this month, marking a new…
Enjoying a gelato on an evening stroll is basically an Italian birthright.
So when the city of Milan proposed a ban that could have potentially restr…