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The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 20 of 28

  • Party in Porto Cervo | Devanshi Mody | Italy | Sardinia | Costa Smeralda/Porto Cervo
    "The Aga Khan discovered Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda, seeing in its brutally blue waters and untamed landscapes the potential for a jet-set destination. Whilst the rest of Sardinia remains rustic and rugged, Porto Cervo sizzles with the..."
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  • Suite Dreams: Preciously Piedmont | Devanshi Mody | Italy | Piedmont
    "When Hamlet told Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery,” he probably didn’t anticipate how very naughty nunneries and monasteries could become in modern times. Would you have thought that a 17th-century monastery could be transformed..."
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  • White Gold | Devanshi Mody | Italy | Piedmont
    "If you haven’t a taste for clandestine nocturnal activities in cold wet fields involving truffle dogs, but you do have the palate for the pungent prestige food, this is the time of the year to relish the fruit (or the truffle, as the case..."
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  • Ninfa: Paradise Found | Marc Zakian | Italy | Lazio | Rome
    "If Jehovah were sent back to earth to recreate Eden, he would find his work already done at Ninfa. The garden - two hours to the south of Rome - is so beautiful that visitors are often moved to tears. Ninfa’s Jehovah is Lauro..."
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  • Catania | Stephen Emms | Italy | Sicily | Catania
    "It was Sunday, maybe that was the problem, and a combination of factors – the heat, the oppressive black-grey buildings, Mount Etna’s recent eruption, the closed shops and tourist office – had whipped up a kind of nagging..."
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  • Como - Command Performance | Daphne Beames | Italy | Italian Lakes | Lake Como
    "The shimmering blue-black waters of Lake Como are deep, eerie and fascinating. Great snow-capped mountains rise from the hidden depths – their sides steeply angled against the skyline and their lower, densely wooded slopes brushing the lake..."
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  • European Festivals | Kamin Mohammadi | Italy | Sardinia | Sedilo
    "Europe may have joined in a Union, but all its different countries have their own summer feasts and festivals which display their peculiar individuality. Kamin Mohammadi joins the party. The Ardia, Sedilo, Sardinia, Italy..."
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  • In the Trenches of the White War | Anthony Toole | Italy | Dolomites
    "Though it defined the shapes of two countries, it remains, to North Europeans, a forgotten war. While Britain, France and Germany fought to a standstill in the Flanders mud, Austria and Italy were engaged in a similar struggle, high in the snows..."
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  • The Ardia | Kamin Mohammadi | Italy | Sardinia
    "In a thunder of hooves, a horsemen careers wildly round a small hilltop church, chasing a standard bearer flanked by two horsemen. They beat off with big sticks any horse that gets too close. The crowd swells forward and ebbs back as the..."
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  • Sicily: Culture and style | Solange Hando | Italy | Sicily
    "As the plane banked ready for landing, lush citrus groves spread as far as we could see and a sprinkling of red roofs glowed in the morning sun. The silvery coast meandered into the distance while on the mighty cone of Etna, snow glistened and a..."
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