Italy Panorama

Acerenza is a pretty place. Set up on a massif high at the end of a squiggly road, its position above the Bradano River has been enviable and strategic since before the Roman age. Like many towns in this area, it was the Middle Ages that left the most lasting features on Acerenza, endowing it [...]

Polentone, this rustic dish is fun to eat; everyone gathers round the table and eats directly from the spianatoia.

One of Italy’s most enduring and endearing Christmas traditions is the presepio – from simple mangers to elaborate, functioning towns all done in honor of Jesus’ birth

Romance, action, dancing and pyrotechnics…La Storia Bandita tells the real story of il Mezzogiorno in spectacular fashion.

It is an exciting and heart-pounding event with colorful costumes, knights, competitions and it is all based on traditions going back hundreds of years…La Quintana!

Chiesa Sant’ Agostino, Rome
Rome is a city bristling with churches that are loaded with precious artwork and architectural beauty, many of which are tourist attractions in their own right, where pilgrims from the world over line up to gaze upon a particular painting or see a specific sculpture.  So it is a surprise that just [...]

Flocks of sheep are visible all across the Italian countryside, learn about special huts used by shepherds for hundreds of years.

Dried and then fried in olive oil, peperoni cruschi are a Lucanian delicacy.

Anyone who loves castles will want to see Castel del Monte, a unique treasure in Puglia.

Having been used since the fifteenth century, Trabocchi are fishing platforms in an area that is known as Costa dei Trabocchi. The main platforms suspended over deep water are accessed by narrow walkways that many times look like planks laid down by kids over a ditch.