The Curious Traveler

Culture
by Silvana Saccomani | Mon, 07/17/2017 - 12:41
Italy is a beautiful country and so it makes sense that Italian is a beautiful language. Sources including the Italian encyclopedia Treccani and dictionaries…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 07/14/2017 - 00:00
Winter 1917. The war was raging all along the Italian Front, at the border between Austria-Hungary and Italy. In the midst of one of the coldest and snowiest…
Culture
by Laura Morelli | Tue, 07/11/2017 - 05:54
Cover image credit: Faenza ceramics festival CC via Flickr (c) Argilla Italia.jpg Faenza, located in the heart of Emilia-Romagna halfway between Bologna and…
Culture
by csabino | Thu, 07/06/2017 - 05:22
Palaces built by Sicily’s nobles were meant to showcase their wealth and appreciation for the finest architectural styles and  decorative arts of the day.…
Culture
by Luciana.Squadrilli | Tue, 06/27/2017 - 06:00
If you’ve already visited Palermo, then you’ll probably know the city’s main attractions worth to be admired both on the outside and the inside: the majestic…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 06/23/2017 - 00:00
In her early forties, in the wake of a divorce and a traumatic illness, California-born Chandi Wyant decided to walk - alone – on a stretch of the Via…
Culture
by Georgette Jupe | Thu, 06/22/2017 - 00:43
Open up any form of social media today and it’s hard not to be entranced by any number of facebook updates, articles and instagram posts representing Italy's…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 06/09/2017 - 00:00
It is often said that you need to know the past to understand the present. That also applies to cities and it is certainly true for Bologna, a city that…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 06/08/2017 - 04:00
“As when one sees the tower called Garisenda from underneath its leaning side...” - Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto XXXI  Pisa is not the only Italian city with…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 06/01/2017 - 10:10
There’s no other building in Emilia-Romagna - or the rest of Italy for that matter, except perhaps for the Castello di Sammezzano in Tuscany - quite like the…