If Italy has been public property since ‘La Dolce Vita’, then the Redentore festival in Venice is one of the final frontiers in authentic Italian living. Originally a display of thanks for salvation from the plague of 1576, the festival has become a joyous antithesis...
Venice is constantly drowning. Last year it was drowning in its almost unprecedented “acqua alta” and people were rowing across a submerged Piazza San Marco. For over a century, it has been drowning in the relentless flood of tourists that make it almost impossible...
For over a decade, gentrification has been a growing, apparently relentless phenomenon in most major cities, all over the world. From Berlin to the Silicon Valley, from the hipster renaissance of Shoreditch, in London, to the skyrocketing real estate prices in Rome,...
Italy is about the scent of lemons. Italy is about the sound of people murmuring and laughing in the streets on a warm summer night. And Italy is about people telling each other stories in a very passionate way – over a colourful table laden...