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The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 5 of 28

  • Making Amici in Palermo | James Wallman | Italy | Sicily | Palermo
    "‘Come! Come with me... for a glass of wine, some pasta and to meet mi amici!’ That wasn’t quite what Frederico said – but it was what he meant. My tourist’s Italian couldn’t keep up with the rapid-fire delivery of his machine-gun..."
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  • The Thin Line | AA Gill | Italy | Lombardy | Milan
    "Milan Fashion Week, October 1995. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele is a shopping arcade. At one end is La Scala and at the other the Milan Duomo, the second largest church in Christendom. The galleria is no ordinary mall. It is to Burlington..."
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  • La Dolce Vita | Benjamin Ergas | Italy | Amalfi Coast | Positano
    "The silhouettes of Stella, Scopolo, and Il faraglioni di mezzo are receding gently onto the horizon as our boat sails away from the isle. Three rock needles that have burst out of the sea to punctuate Capri, like three ellipsis dots ending an..."
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  • Nuts in Sicily | Martin O'Brien | Italy | Sicily | Bronte
    "There's an air of expectancy in Sport-Bar Saitta on the corner of Bronte's Piazza Spedalieri. It's late Thursday afternoon and as the day's siesta comes to an end the shutters of this Sicilian hilltown on the western slopes of Mount Etna creak open..."
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  • Ten Cautions of Rome | Stuart Wolfendale | Italy | Lazio | Rome
    "It has become fashionable to write about the “10 Best” features of a popular destination; in reponse, for future travellers, here are "10 Cautions" over Rome. Number One. If you use any Italian railway station, you will catch occasional..."
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  • Venice: Arts and Crafts | Sean Thomas | Italy | Veneto Region | Venice
    "One of the best things about Venice is its world-class art. One of the worst things about Venice is that every tourist in the visible universe agrees with this. From January to December the principal galleries and art-spaces of the city are thronged..."
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  • Crime and Seduction in Venice | Julie Miller | Italy | Veneto Region | Venice
    "Within five minutes of arriving in Venice, I had bruised my knee, dropped my laptop computer, broken the heel off my shoe and my mother had been robbed. It certainly wasn’t what I expected from a city known as ‘La Serenissima.’ Venice..."
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  • Hotels in Rome | Jamie Dunford Wood | Italy | Lazio | Rome
    "Rome is a hard city to find good accommodation in. Things are changing slowly, but there's not nearly so much choice as in, say, Paris, where hotels have been catering to picky English travellers for centuries. Most in Rome only sprang up in the..."
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  • Trieste: The Ghost of Empire Past | Neville Walker | Italy | Friuli-Venezia Giulia | Trieste
    "I’ve long been susceptible to the celluloid version of Italy: in this idealised country, everything is gold tinted and lovely, like deep fried zucchini flowers or Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Talented Mr Ripley. There is only one car, the..."
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  • Looking for Milan | Maxine Jones | Italy | Lombardy | Milan
    "It's hard to get an insight into Milan, because noone will admit to coming from there. The well-dressed people scurrying to business appointments clutching sleek mobile phones are all from out of town. “You can't live in Milan,” I am told again and..."
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