ITALY Magazine

ITALY Features

Making Pasta for the Pope: Abruzzo’s Mastri Pastai

From the staple of student cuisine to the tables of the Vatican, in bakes and Bolognese; even collages made at nursery school, can there be a more versatile foodstuff than pasta?

Pasta is one of the most popular foods, on account of its distinctive taste and also its simplicity. John Bensalhia looks at the origins of this much-loved food and at some of the notable techniques in producing a top-class result...

If good fences make good neighbors, then Helen Mirren should have a great relationship with her Italian neighbor over the four metre stone wall dividing their properties in southern Puglia.

Other
Places

When Ezra Pound arrived in Venice, he took rooms near a walled garden on the Rio San Trovaso, opposite a squero, or gondola building yard.

Venture over the Ponte Romano to the eastern bank of Verona’s river Adige and you will find yourself in an oasis of peace and calm.

Mother Nature can be the best gardener, as Paul Harcourt Davies discovers in two parts of the peninsula...

Advertise on ITALY - Pubblicità su ITALY

Latest News

Comedian Beppe Grillo and the Five Star Movement Shock the Nation in Recent Elections

In the municipal elections on the 6th and 7th of May, comedian-turned-activist Beppe Grillo’s Cinque Stelle (Five Star) party catapulted into political prominence...
Buckingham Palace Exhibits Rare da Vinci Anatomy Studies 300 Years Ahead of His Time

The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace will host the largest ever display of Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings in the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist” through the 7th of October 2012.
Guillermo del Toro to Direct Stop-Motion Pinocchio Film

Last week in an interview with Variety, Guillermo del Toro announced that he will direct a 3D, stop-motion animated version of “Pinocchio” ...