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Whats hot in the premium content world this week includes a feature on a newly-opened museum in Milan that celebrates Italian design and iconic brands like Ferrari, Alessi, and Fiat. Also, one of our esteemed food writers takes you to Cervia, a small seaside town in southern Emilia-Romagna that is famous for its salt, which is nicknamed the “Pope’s salt” because of the centuries-long tradition of gifting the first harvest to the Pope in Rome each year. 

“Art walks side by side with nature,” at Villa Carlotta, a 17th-century villa surrounded by a large botanical garden, located on the shores of northern Italy’s Lake Como. Learn more in our dual-language article for the week (with an audio component!). 

Our recipe of the week is a pasta dish that is typically prepared at the height of the oil-pressing season in Liguria, offered by the olive growers as a gesture of celebration to those who helped with the harvest.

For centuries, the Isarco Valley has been covered in majestic chestnut trees, hence the name Sentiero del Castagno, which begins at the Novacella Abbey near Bressanone and ends at Castel Roncolo near Bolzano. Let our resident expert hiker Silvia takes you along the chestnut trail! 

Days are getting shorter and temperatures are getting chillier so it is the perfect time to catch up on some exciting TV shows. Here are five Italian TV series, some premiering this fall, others from past seasons, to transport you to Italy. 

On display at the Florence’s Opera Museum, the Bandini Pietà by Michelangelo has just undergone a major restoration which has removed dust, plaster and wax accumulated on the surface that altered its exceptional plasticity, three-dimensionality and color. 

The pendant is entirely handmade by goldsmith Lucio de Luca from a design by Rossella Farina in the laboratory Yantra in Montemerano, an iconic piece made with love. 

Now that opera and theater has returned, save this useful vocabulary lesson for the perfect night at the teatro (at the theatre) in Italy.

For sale in Le Marche. Just one km from the old Town of Rapagnano, in Fermo province, is this elegant renovated farmhouse featuring a large garden and beautiful olive grove. A sublime property in one of Italy’s most authentic regions.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend from Georgette, your editor, and the Italy Magazine team.