Culture
Il Cammino di Francesco creates a single 1,500km route
“Il Cammino di Francesco – Il Cammino della Luce” folds together scattered regional trails from six regions, all converging on Assisi, as the town prepares to mark eight centuries since the saint’s death.
Life in Italy
Births at post-war low in 2025
ROME — Italy’s severe demographic decline has hit another historic milestone, with live births falling to just 355,000 in 2025—a record low for the post-Second World War era.
Environment
River Po hits record low at Cremona
Water levels in the River Po at Cremona fell to -8.59 metres, breaking the previous record set in 2022. More than 100 municipalities in Piedmont and Lombardy face critical drinking water shortages.
Italy’s forests have quietly overtaken its farmland
A first-of-its-kind survey has found that forests now cover more of Italy than agriculture does, a shift not seen since medieval times. But the story behind the numbers is less a triumph for nature than a portrait of rural Italy slowly emptying.
Umbrian plateau becomes a living rainbow
Every summer, the high plains beneath the Sibillini Mountains erupt into a sweep of red, purple, blue and yellow. The plant responsible for the Umbrian spectacle isn’t a flower at all, but the humble lentil.
