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THE SCUOLA MOSAICISTI DEL FRIULI
Although it was founded in 1922, the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Spilimbergo, in Friuli, drives its roots in a centuries-old local tradition. It was indeed in the 1500s that craftsmen from this...
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MARSALA’S SALT POND
Marsala’s Salt Pond – amongst big and small dunes, white with salt – is home to wonderful forms of life, both animal and plant, that may go unnoticed at first glance. For example, the “Calendula...
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TURIN’S BALON MARKET
In the heart of the Balon, Turin’s famous flea market in the Aurora district, behind Porta Palazzo, a hot air balloon rises 150 meters high every day, giving its passengers a breathtaking view over...
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THE ANTICO STABILIMENTO BALNEARE DI MONDELLO
Only a few years before the Antico Stabilimento Balneare di Mondello (literally, “Mondello’s old beach resort”) was built, Clemente Ravetto, a pilot, soared through these skies with his flying...
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VILLA BOLASCO AND ITS PARK
Villa Bolasco and its Park, in Castelfranco Veneto, in the province of Treviso, used to be known as “the Paradise”. A paradise that was lost in 1803, when the new owner – nobleman Nicolò Corner...
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THE MUSEUM OF BURGIO CERAMICS
The Muceb, the Museum of Burgio ceramics (‘Museo della ceramica di Burgio’) in Agrigento, tells the story of ‘roba di Sicilia’ (literally, “Sicily’s stuff”): that is what the earthenware artifacts...
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Segnomaterico, Turin
Fausto Cutrera, the creator of Turin’s “Segnomaterico”, hunts for abandoned furniture and furnishings; he remakes, assembles, and decorates them with refined taste, in order to “redesign the...
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Villa Campolieto in Ercolano
Villa Campolieto is located along Ercolano’s so-called “Golden Mile”, a luxurious street that is like a necklace encrusted with gorgeous villas, adorning the Neapolitan districts of San Giovanni a...
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is the fruit of passion and good fortune. Passion came from the woman who gathered the works of art that make up the Collection: Peggy Guggenheim – the niece...
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The Malatestiana Library, Cesena
The Malatestiana Library in Cesena, now 550 years old, has an extremely long memory. In 2005, Unesco included it in its Memory of the World Programme Register, as a “rare example of a complete and...
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The “La Posta Vecchia” Hotel
The “La Posta Vecchia” Hotel (literally “Old Post Office” Hotel) hides some splendid treasures. Its foundations bear on an ancient Roman villa, with mosaic floors, walls covered in African and Greek...
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Villa Lysis, Capri
Villa Lysis was the refuge of an exile, the haven of a man escaping public shunning. Jacques d’Adelsward Fersen came to Capri in 1904, and the following year had this secluded home built in the North...
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The Galbusera Bianca Oasis
In contrast with the ‘bianca’ (“white”) in its name, the first news about Galbusera Bianca ever recorded is from 1348, when the Black Death pandemic peaked in Europe, killing millions in all of...
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Vicenza’s Bar Borsa
The Bar Borsa offers jazz music and hospitality under the vaults of Vicenza’s Basilica Palladiana – the city’s Palazzo della Ragione, built in the second half of the 16th century –, facing the central...
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Crazy Art in Milan
In Milan’s Crazy Art showroom, it appears that someone is collecting the world – without claiming to catalog anything into a rigid grid. Because, as professional collectors and antique dealers know,...
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Salerno’s Sacra Famiglia
According to its author, Paolo Portoghesi, the Church of the Holy Family (‘Sacra Famiglia’) in Salerno “is an effort to speak a certain code, the typical building which stands out for its style and...
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The Imperial Villa in Pesaro
Pesaro’s Imperial Villa has a suspended hallway, like a “bridge” joining the two hearts of the building, which are two very different structures composing one of the most important examples of Italian...
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The Teatro Comunale in Ferrara
The Teatro Comunale (“Communal Theatre”) in Ferrara was built over twenty-four years, with vicissitudes fit for a great libretto. Conflict is the essence of drama, as all playwrights know, and before...
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The Grand Hotel Villa Igiea
The history of the Grand Hotel Villa Igiea – a masterpiece of Sicilian Art Nouveau – is linked to the encounter between two famous Palermo-born men: Ignazio Florio jr and Ernesto Basile. The former...
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The bronze runners
In ancient Greece, runners competed in the ‘stadion’, the most prestigious event in the Olympic Games. The winner had the honor of giving his name to the Olympiad in which he triumphed, and to light...
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