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Italian cuisine is a way of connecting with family. Image shows family eating outdoors as the older man offers red wine

Italian cuisine earns UNESCO heritage status

December 10, 2025December 10, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Italian cuisine has been added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage lists. The decision came on Wednesday at a meeting of the UN agency’s Intergovernmental Committee in New Delhi.

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On this day: birth of Baroque artist Andrea Sacchi

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Andrea Sacchi, one of the key figures of 17th-century Italian art, was born on 30th November 1599, Saint Andrew’s Day, in or near Rome. He became a leading advocate of High Baroque Classicism, drawing lifelong inspiration from Raphael’s work.

Digitalised masterpieces - da Voinci with certificate Credit: AP/Antonio Calanni

Limited-edition digital copies of Renaissance masterpieces

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Collectors can now buy certified digital copies of major Italian artworks. Cultural officials launch a project that promises museum-quality reproductions for a fraction of the cost of an original.

Harvesting grapes by hand in the autumn on Sicily Fabio Ingrosso, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Autumn on Sicily: Flavours and Festivals

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Autumn in Sicily is not just a season—it is a celebration of flavour, colour, and ancient tradition. As the air cools and the land turns golden, the island’s markets and villages come alive with festivals dedicated to its most prized ingredients: pistachios from Bronte, capers from the Aeolian Islands, and the golden oils of the […]

Colosseum is designated a red zone for crime. The Commodus Paasage at the Colosseum is now open to the public. Colosseum and other museums open ferragosto 2022

Secret Commodus Passage opens to the public at the Colosseum

October 12, 2025October 12, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A once-hidden passageway inside Rome’s Colosseum, known as the Commodus Passage — named after the notorious emperor immortalised in the film Gladiator — opened to the public for the first time this week.

Italian ire as Carpaccio altarpiece returned to Slovenia

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Allies of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni have condemned the return of a Renaissance masterpiece to Slovenia, calling it a betrayal of Istrian exiles. The Carpaccio altarpiece has been in the Basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua since 1943.

Kevin Spacey will be honoured at the Lucca Film Festival

Kevin Spacey to Open Lucca Film Festival

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Kevin Spacey will open the 21st edition of the Lucca Film Festival, which runs in the Tuscan city from 20 to 28 September 2025.

Stefano Benni, Master of Satire and Imagination, Dies at 78

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Stefano Benni, one of Italy’s most beloved satirical writers, playwrights, and journalists, has died at the age of 78 after a prolonged illness, the Feltrinelli publishing house confirmed on Tuesday.

Andrea Camilleri at 100 and the island of Sicily

September 6, 2025September 6, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Andrea Camilleri would have turned one hundred today, 6th September 1925, born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily. His name is synonymous with Inspector Salvo Montalbano, but to regard him merely as a crime writer is to diminish a vast, multifaceted literary legacy.

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On this day in history: birth of artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

August 30, 2025August 30, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, one of Venice’s most original painters and printmakers, was born on 30th August, 1727. The eldest of Giambattista Tiepolo’s painter-sons carved out his own artistic identity, moving from grand Baroque fresco cycles to intimate, wry portraits of everyday Venetian life. He also had an enduring obsession with the comic figure of Pulcinella.