Inspiring Travel Writing from Marc Zakian
Now on his third attempt at a "career", Marc graduated from Birmingham University in search of any job which didn't involve a tie or an office. After working in the theatre and TV, he chanced into travel writing after leaving a drunken party with a commission for a story on Tuscan cuisine.
Since then Marc has written for the Telegraph, the Standard, Conde Nast Traveller, The Times as well as many newspapers and magazines in the US and Canada. He is an expert on Italy, where has lived, and frequently visits North and South America.
Since then Marc has written for the Telegraph, the Standard, Conde Nast Traveller, The Times as well as many newspapers and magazines in the US and Canada. He is an expert on Italy, where has lived, and frequently visits North and South America.
Articles by Marc Zakian
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La Foce
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Tuscany
And, it’s the view which inspired the garden at La Foce. La Foce was Iris Origo’s passion. In 1924 Iris, a spirited Anglo-American who grew up in the palatial Villa Medici, left the aristocratic comfort of Florence with her new husband...
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A Medieval Italian Hill Town in Tuscany
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Tuscany
There are no strangers in Monticchiello. Secreted among the bobbing hills of the Orcia valley - with 300 villagers and one road in and out - everybody knows everybody here. It’s a good thing, because for three weeks of the year everybody in...
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Food for Life
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Pienza
Every day, to the clang of midday cathedral bells, signor Cuzzi creaks his way up Montepulciano’s cobbled streets to the Piazza Grande. It takes half an hour for his hunched figure to reach his seat in the piazza bar for lunch and a glass of Vino...
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Abruzzo
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Abruzzo
Abruzzo. Abruzzi.* So good they named it twice. From the alpine peaks of the Gran Sasso, to the wild wolves in the national park; from its craggy medieval hill towns, to its 120 miles of Adriatic coastline - this region has everything the Italophile...
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Bridget's Bermondsey
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Marc Zakian
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United Kingdom
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Greater London
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London
The Globe inn squats under the railway bridge by London's Borough Market. For over a century this barrel-shaped pub was a sweat-and-sawdust watering hole for the stallholders. But a new clientele is bustling though its doors – on the trail of a 21st...
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Ninfa: Paradise Found
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Lazio
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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 Marchetti - a...
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Hudson Valley
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Marc Zakian
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United States
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New York State
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Hudson Valley
I boarded an upstate train from Grand Central Station to visit the legacy of the men who made America. The king of the valley is Kykuit - the country home of the Rockefellers. An apprentice clerk at sixteen, by forty JD Rockefeller was the richest...
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Maratea
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Basilicata
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Maratea
The Portofino of the south is back: after decades of fading glory, Maratea is once again the beau monde’s summer hang out, and Amalfi merely a lunch stop for Romans heading down the coast to Basilicata’s tiny kiss of...
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Mallory Park
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Marc Zakian
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United Kingdom
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Midlands
We split into teams. My trio included Jamie for Basildon - a good Essex boy ready to wheel-spin the day away - and Claire, a mild mannered nursery nurse from Crawley. I hauled myself behind the wheel of a battered Land Rover. Next...
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Easy Pisa
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Pisa
My encounter with white Panda man made me realise that Pisa is different. He pulled up to let me cross the road. Surely some mistake. This is Italy, where the pedestrian is one step from eternity and the zebra crossing merely a way to brighten up...