Start of Christmas and year-end holidays in Italy stick to traditional dates The first sign of the winter holidays, including Christmas, often start popping up in the United States as soon as Halloween decorations are taken down. While once the day after Thanksgiving...
Pack your costume, Carnevale is coming After the chilly month of January, as happy memories of Christmas gifts and year’s end parties fade, Italians gear up for a new excuse to be festive and indulge in sweets, for Carnevale — Italy’s version of...
Rich in layers of civilizations past, Palermo experiences exciting cultural renewal Sicily’s centuries-long legacy of some of history’s most remarkable periods is reflected fittingly in Palermo, the Mediterranean island’s capital city. Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman,...
Milan to enjoy: Fashion capital offers updated approaches to arts and entertainment Milan is famed as Italy’s fashion and finance capital, so many tourists in search of culture or entertainment might not put it on their to-see list. But they’d be missing...
Wealth of special Italian exhibits celebrates the genius of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci’s accomplishments spanned from the arts to the sciences, so no wonder he is hailed as the Renaissance man. He painted, he drew, he conceptualized flying machines centuries...
