“My family and I celebrated my brother’s eighteenth birthday with him at Fattoria di Fubbiano in Lucca. After sampling some exquisite wines and tasty oils, in the scorching summer heat, we took this photograph of the verdant Tuscan hills, abundant with vineyards!” Claudia Wardle, Cheshire
In Italia 117. Hannah shares her restorative itinerary relaxing in the thermal waters and exotic gardens of Ischia, all within walking distance so you can leave the car at home and really get away from it all. Beautiful Ischia is just one of the islands in the Bay of Naples, with Procida and Capri also […]
Escape for a swim in the the most beautiful Italian Lakes. The spectacular lakes of Northern Italy are some of the most beautiful in the world. This extract is taken from a fantastic book – Wild Swimming, which shares locations and directions for discovering these beautiful hidden locales while taking a drip in the water. […]
When Rome’s famed Cinecittà cinema studio complex opened its doors for a Fellini exhibition in 2011, visitors could walk onto film sets including replicas of a stretch of 19th century Broadway used in Gangs of New York and the sprawling ancient Roman Forum built for the BBC television series Rome. Cinecittà was built in 1937 […]
Hannah Bellis visits Camogli in Liguria and explores a colourful beach front paradise that is perhaps not so undiscovered as she thinks In May I visited Liguria for the very first time. I was expecting water – this skinny northern Italian strip is practically all coastline, so I figured I would find somewhere special […]
Some 20km around and up to 2km deep in places, the Sacca di Scardovari is one of the wildest areas in the Po Delta and is home to the rare spring snowflake (Leucojum Vernum) flower. You will also see herons, and long-legged buzzards in the cooler months. The Sacca di Scardovari is also well known […]
“This is my photo taken in September 2012 in a village called ‘Trait’ in the Italian Alps in Piedmont, near to Turin. The height of the village is 1700 metres. As we were walking through the meadows and forests this view struck me for two reasons. The first being the orderly fashion of the vegetable […]
“On a recent visit to Lake Garda I had a day trip into the Dolomites and was struck by the majesty of the mountains and the admiration for all the cyclists who ascend the Pass of Pordoi where this was taken while waiting for the cable car.” Reginald Murray
Photographer Iain Reid visited Venice Carnival with his camera and his Native Venetian Girlfriend, Sara Scarpa, who showed him the sights of Venice Carnival from the Venetian perspective. See many more of his great images in Italia 114. For more information on this issue, click here. Look for Iain’s shots of Venice Carnival […]
This poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley was inspired by his time spent on the Gulf of Lerici, unofficially knows as the Gulf of Poets because of the large number of writers who were inspired by living here …I sat and saw the vessels glide Over the ocean bright and wide, Like spirit-winged chariots sent […]