Culture

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini opened “Caravaggio 2025” last week, kicking off one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions of…

“Willkommen. Benvenuti. Welcome.” These are the three familiar greetings written on the sign at Parco Cervi, deep and high in Italy’s Dolomite region. Yet…

“È come Il Natale, La Pasqua, Il Carnevale,” Jovanotti declared from Sanremo’s main stage on the first night of the music festival’s 75th edition. Love it or…

Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera — one of the world’s most venerable art museums — is expanding. Under director Angelo Crespi, the preeminent home of Italian…

Editor's note: Pordenone was just declared Italian Capital of Culture for 2027 on March 12, 2025. To celebrate, we are revisiting this article on the campaign…

Spend enough time in Italy and you’ll start to notice something about the names of city streets: They’re predictable. When I go to a new city, I can…

In old-town Syracuse, Sicily, at the corner of Via della Giudecca and Via del Crocefisso — “Ghetto” and “Crucifix” streets, respectively — an all but forgotten…

This week marks a full century since the actor Marcello Mastroianni entered our world. Now, nearly 30 years on since he exited, it remains quasi-illegal to…

Practically every aspect of Pablo Picasso’s life and art has already been picked apart. But his brief sojourn in Italy in 1917, when the artist was 35, remains…

The Venetian gondola is an Italian icon — and the gondoliers who pilot them have one of the most recognizable professions in the world.  Since 1094, the…