Civil Life on the Canals
Venice has a reputation as a “serene” city – its surname in Italian is la…
Places
The Long Way to Rome
All roads lead to Rome, as they say, but none compares with the experience of walking the…
Learning the Art of Language in Florence
Although Florence is famous for having once been flooded with artists and thinkers, today…
La Bella Marca on Cape Breton Island
Dominion is a small town of approximately 2,000 people in Cape Breton Island. It…
Symbol of Resurgence – Montreal’s Casa d’Italia
In the mid 1960s the Italian community almost lost the Casa d’Italia landmark. It took…
The Marches – All of Italy in One Region
Of the 40 million foreign tourists who flock to the “museum peninsula” every year,…
The Graffiti Walls of the Eternal City
The jumbled, colourful, in-your-face world of Rome’s graffiti is getting a bad rap.…
Colours of the Marches
Nestled behind its more celebrated neighbours of Emilia Romagna and San Marino to the…
Pub Italia, Preston Street
A tall moustachioed figure slides into the bench before me. Setting down a tall pint of…
The Garden of Monsters
A fascinating woodland area near the central Italian town of Bomarzo, whose…