Author: Charlotte Hill
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Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius in 2026: named tickets and daily limits at Pompeii, prices, guided tours, how Herculaneum compares, climbing the crater, getting there and how to fit it all into one or two days.
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A guide to Lake Garda: Sirmione and its castle, the wine towns of Bardolino and Lazise, Malcesine and Monte Baldo, Limone’s lemon houses, boat trips, gardens, spas and how to choose where to stay.
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Which Siena Cathedral ticket to buy: the OPA SI Pass, the Gate of Heaven roof walk, guided tours and early access, plus 2026 dates for the uncovered marble floor and a perfect day in Siena.
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The practical side of a trip to Italy: airport transfers, when to hire a car and what to know about ZTL zones and tolls, eSIMs, tickets to book ahead, EU flight delay compensation and luggage storage.
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Turin spent nearly two decades as an Italian capital before quietly settling into life as one of the country’s most underrated major cities, a place with the grand royal architecture…
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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.