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Plan your 5-day Rome itinerary with this complete guide. Day-by-day plans, practical tips, booking advice, and where to eat in the Eternal City.

Discover the most common Italian surnames from Liguria, their Genoese maritime origins, emigration history to Argentina and the USA, and how to trace your Ligurian family roots.

Learn how to make fresh Italian pasta from scratch using just flour and eggs. Step-by-step guide to dough, shaping and cooking in the Italian tradition.

Discover Turin — Italy’s most underrated city, birthplace of vermouth, home to the world’s greatest Egyptian museum outside Cairo — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover agriturismo — Italy’s tradition of staying on working farms, eating what the land produces, and experiencing rural Italian life — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the DOP-protected olive all’ascolana — the stuffed fried olive that can only be made in Ascoli Piceno, and why it has conquered all of Italy — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the Palio di Siena — a 700-year-old bareback horse race through a medieval Tuscan piazza that makes grown Italians weep with joy or despair. Plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Ostia Antica near Rome has the mosaics, bakeries, and apartment blocks of a real Roman city — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the Italian mercato tradition — the weekly outdoor market that reveals the true pulse of Italian life, from fresh produce to community rituals — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Explore Bologna, Italy’s food capital — home of tortellini, ragù Bolognese, and Parmigiano Reggiano. The city Italians call La Grassa — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the vendemmia — Italy’s ancient grape harvest tradition that brings entire villages together every September and October — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover Italy’s sagra festivals — local village food celebrations built around a single dish, open to everyone and found in every region — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Plan your perfect Tuscany road trip with this 7-day itinerary. From Florence and Siena to Val d’Orcia and Lucca, here is everything you need to know.

Three times a year, Naples Cathedral falls silent as thousands wait to see if San Gennaro’s blood will liquefy — a miracle that has held for 600 years — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Calabria is Italy’s overlooked southern region — white-sand beaches, clifftop villages, ancient Greek ruins, no crowds. Here’s why it belongs on your itinerary — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Taormina, Sicily: where a 2,300-year-old Greek theatre overlooks Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

The passeggiata is Italy’s daily evening walking ritual — no destination, no agenda, just community. Discover what it is and how to join in — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover Amarone della Valpolicella — Italy’s most powerful wine, made by drying grapes for 120 days near Verona, and aged for years — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

The 800-year story of Parmigiano Reggiano, from 5am dairies and months of brining to the ancient hammer test that determines whether each wheel passes — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover Marostica, the medieval Italian town that stages a living chess game with 600 costumed residents every two years — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover Herculaneum: the Roman city buried by Vesuvius that’s better preserved than Pompeii, with intact wood, scrolls, and food still in pots — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover why Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati all came from one small corner of Italy — and why the Motor Valley in Emilia-Romagna is worth a detour — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Why Italian restaurants have four different names — ristorante, trattoria, osteria, and bar — and what the unwritten rules mean for your trip — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover how Venice moved every glassmaker to Murano in 1291 — and what happened to those who tried to leave with its secrets — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

How Venice built the world’s first industrial assembly line and turned it into an empire — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Ravello sits 365 metres above the Amalfi Coast — quieter, more beautiful, and utterly unforgettable. Here’s why it belongs on every Italy itinerary — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Discover the most common Italian surnames from Abruzzo, their origins and meanings, emigration history, and how to trace your Abruzzese family roots.

Make authentic Italian carbonara recipe the Roman way — no cream, just guanciale, eggs, Pecorino Romano, and black pepper. Simple and delicious.

Discover Pantelleria — the volcanic island between Sicily and Tunisia where vines lie flat, capers perfume the air, and tourists are still rare — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.

Spaghetti and meatballs, chicken parmigiana, garlic bread — these feel Italian to millions. The real story of how immigrants invented them is far more moving — plus get weekly Italy stories free in our newsletter.