Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Liz Shemaria
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Liz Shemaria is Italy Magazine's director of partnerships and also writes features on art, design and culinary traditions. An award-winning journalist, she has contributed to more than a dozen publications and organizations including Human Rights Watch, BBC Travel, AFAR, Roads & Kingdoms, and Fodor’s (print and online Italy guides). A third-generation Californian based in Italy since 2017, she thrives in unfamiliar situations and has trekked solo in Himalaya, interviewed artists in military-ruled Burma, and perfected the art of picking prickly pears in Puglia. Follow her travels on Instagram @lizshemaria.
Articles by Liz Shemaria
Mon, 02/12/2024 - 06:20
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Tue, 01/23/2024 - 04:01
February is festival month in Italy, with Carnival celebrations from Venice to Bari with costumes, parades, confetti and bountiful food and wine. But…
Wed, 11/08/2023 - 13:30
Standing in Barbaresco Tower, Paolo Dalla Mora points to where he’s growing sage among a tapestry of grape vines.
Grapes are everywhere in Le Langhe…
Tue, 07/18/2023 - 11:21
There’s no question about it: Parma is a culinary destination. In the university town of 189,000, there are more than 130 producers of the famous cure…
Mon, 07/10/2023 - 01:30
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 06/08/2023 - 06:21
Is Sorrento on the Amalfi Coast? The answer, according to longtime local Francesco Monti, might surprise you.
Monti, whose family has run the Hotel…
Thu, 06/01/2023 - 06:33
A white hand ashtray sculpted in 1942 is lit in a glass case with terracotta hands and ears fired during the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE.
Etruscans form…
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 07:10
In Puglia and Basilicata, bunches of asparagus at small greengrocers have a wild look. These lanky stalks are distant relatives of the shoots you’d fi…
Mon, 04/10/2023 - 08:00
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 01/12/2023 - 09:55
Name the first food product you can think of from the Emilia-Romagna region. (Think fast!) Is it balsamic vinegar from Modena? Prosciutto from Parma?…
Fri, 12/30/2022 - 09:34
Milan, today known for its robust role in finance and fashion, was once defined by blocks of manufacturing warehouses on its outskirts. Many of those…
Fri, 12/09/2022 - 08:35
Naples’ busy metro is probably the last place you'd expect to find a contemporary art gallery. Yet gliding on an escalator 131 feet up to Toledo stati…
Thu, 12/01/2022 - 08:50
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Tue, 11/22/2022 - 11:50
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 10/13/2022 - 02:50
Olafur Eliasson’s installation in Palazzo Strozzi’s courtyard is dizzying. The 36 x 26 ft flickering moiré pattern of two overlaid grids called Under…
Mon, 09/12/2022 - 06:52
Milan is Italy’s most expensive city and a hub of fashion and finance. With its high concentration of luxury brands and Michelin-starred restaurants —…
Tue, 08/09/2022 - 09:47
As you walk from Pavia’s train station towards its historical center, you'll spot a 26-foot-tall woman holding a shield in one hand and a spear in the…
Mon, 07/04/2022 - 02:45
Milan is one of the world’s design capitals. Brands like Prada and Versace are headquartered in the northern Italian city and the Salone del Mobile (F…
Thu, 06/09/2022 - 02:03
In the hills above Lake Garda in Gardone Riviera, a former dentist to the Italian royal family and Pope Pius XII transformed a 3.7-acre vineyard into…