Welcome to another gallery of glorious photos from Italy – all of them captured by Italia! readers for our monthly competition… This month’s winner: “Strolling through the beautiful historic town of Susa, Piedmont, we were taken by surprise when a herd of donkeys came careering down the main shopping street towards us. They were eventually […]
The cactus greenhouse at the Giardini Esotici Pallanca in Bordighera, where just some of the Garden’s 3,000 succulents are kept… Giacomo Pallanca left the olive oil trade in 1861 to work with the German botanist Ludwig Winter. His son Bartolomeo inherited his passion and in 1910 established the Pallanca Exotic Garden at Bordighera, a nursery […]
We love seeing your photos and this month we’ve got some fantastic snapshots from all over the Italian peninsula – enjoy! This month’s winner: “Modica 2013. Cathedral San Giorgio Cathedral with wedding.” by Jim Mabon, Stirling And more of our favourites this month… “Lago di Mergozzo is a small lake in northern Italy just […]
The Devil’s Bridge is one of Italy’s most beautiful, and most strange… The Ponte della Maddalena, otherwise known as the Ponte del Diavolo, straddles the Serchio river at Borgo a Mozzano, in Lucca, Tuscany. No one knows for sure who built it, but the legend goes that it was St Julian, who required the help […]
The transhumance of livestock in Italy is a tradition that dates back centuries, even millennia… Transhumance, the act of moving livestock ‘across ground’ to new pastures, has been practised in Italy – and other parts of the world – for longer than anyone can remember. Recently, Italy, supported by Austria and Greece, asked to […]
Porticello Beach lies on the northeastern end of the island of Lipari, one of the glorious Aeolian Islands just north of Sicily… This pebbly beach on Lipari is notable for its content of pumice. Pumice mining was a major part of the island’s economy until 2000, when, as part of the deal for the Aeolian […]
This image of a 19th-century factory in Naples illustrates just how fundamental pasta is to Italian cuisine Where or when pasta originated is something we will never know. A lot of the problem lies in what we mean by “pasta”, but the modern Italian pasta we know and love today (ie, that which is made […]
This month, our winning reader photos are just as spectacular as ever… here are our favourites! This month’s winner: “Assisi in October 2017, when visiting my brother and family, looking upon the church of a beautiful old town.” by Stef Duranti And more of this month’s best reader snaps… “Last Christmas in Lerici. We have […]
The Fountain of Diana on Piazza Archimede in Ortigia is the work of the Italian sculptor Giulio Moschetti and was completed in 1907, two years before his death… Giulio Moschetti was originally from Ascoli Piceno and had found fame in Rome but came to see himself as ‘an adopted Sicilian’ after going to live on […]
The beautiful Villa Rufolo looks over the resort of Ravello – offering one Italy’s very finest coastal views (as you can see!) In the Middle Ages, the Villa Rufolo was one of the grandest houses on the Amalfi coast. Kings stayed here; great poets wrote of it. Today it is famed for its gardens, the […]