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Piedmont rarely gets the first-time-visitor attention that Tuscany or the Amalfi Coast commands, and locals here seem largely content to keep it that way.
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Moscato d’Asti occupies an unusual position in the Italian wine world: it’s simultaneously one of the country’s most exported and best-loved wines internationally and one of the most misunderstood by…
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Cross from Emilia into Romagna, roughly the stretch of territory east of Bologna running toward Ravenna and Rimini, and the region’s wine story shifts noticeably away from Lambrusco’s sparkling…
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Ask most wine drinkers outside Italy to name a wine from Emilia-Romagna and, if they can name one at all, it’s usually Lambrusco, and usually the wrong version of it.
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Few harbor stops anywhere in the Mediterranean pack as much layered history into as small a footprint as Ortigia, the tiny island old town at the heart of Syracuse.
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Of the modern marinas built along Sicily’s southern coast, Marina di Ragusa stands out for pairing genuinely serious yachting infrastructure with one of the richest concentrations of Baroque culture found anywhere on the island.
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Of all the stops covered in our guide to the best yacht spots in Sicily, Marzamemi is the one visitors tend to remember most fondly despite its modest size.
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Sitting at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, closer to North Africa than to Rome, Sicily offers a genuinely different yachting experience from anywhere else in Italian waters: a coastline that…
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Modena’s reputation rests heavily on engines and vinegar, but the city’s most emotionally resonant attraction has nothing to do with either.
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Long before Modena had Ferrari or a drop of traditional balsamic vinegar to its name, it had this: a Romanesque cathedral so complete, so carefully preserved, and so architecturally influential…