Situated in Italy’s northwest, Liguria is the third smallest Italian region, after Molise and Valle d’Aosta. It borders France to the west, Piedmont to the north and Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to the east. In the hinterland you’ll find the Ligurian A

This carefully renovated 2-bedroom rustic style stone built village house, which has some lovely lake views, is located in the hamlet of Caino, just 1.5km north of Vercana, 4km from the beach and lake front at Domaso, and only 1¾ hours from Milan air

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“I’ve had a beautiful relationship with this school and it came about by chance. I wasn’t great at middle school in an academic way, but an ex-Selvatico student encouraged me and I enrolled. It was love at first sight. I remember my first teacher, An

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Arrosto di maiale con latte e salvia • SERVES 6 • PREPARATION 10 minutes • COOKING 1 hour 35 minutes Getting bored with traditional Sunday roasts? Try this super-easy recipe for a change and serve it with all your usual trimmings. The milk makes the

“I was 12 and it was 1954. I spent the next eight years at the school. I loved manual work, working with metals, and I loved the tools. My teachers were Brugnolo and Venturini, who was a painter. At home, when I was 13 or 14, I began making the first

Welcome to the latest issue of Italia! magazine, coming to you with a decidedly festive air. My mood is always upbeat when planning this holiday season issue – months ahead, when the leaves turn to gold. It’s a promise of good things to come – and we

Some time before the 11th century AD, people from the Valle d’Itria began to settle on a rounded hilltop in Puglia, overlooking the valley. After all, who can resist property with a view? Gradually, little whitewashed houses, with steeply pitched roo

Useful Italian words and phrases to add to your vocabulary □ Le prime cose The first things □ Una corsa mozzafiato A breathtaking ride □ Le montagne russe A rollercoaster □ Una tappa obbligata A must-visit □ La diversità culinaria The culinary divers

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Baccalà mantecato • SERVES 4-6 • PREPARATION 48 hours • COOKING 30 minutes Salt cod was introduced to Venice in 1431, when a Venetian captain brought a consignment to the city after a long stay in Norway. Venetians fell instantly in love with baccalà

Staffordshire-based Bryony Cox and her partner Sam Peltine own a two-bedroom house in the hills of western Liguria, about eight miles from the sea. They spend several months a year there and make the place available for friends and family when they’r

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Published six times a year by an experienced team in Rome, Tutto italiano not only helps you improve your fluency, it also helps you understand what it is to be Italian. The glossy magazine is packed full of lively articles and the latest news coveri

There’s just something about the sound of a popping cork and the sight of a fine mousse of bubbles in a glass that gets everyone in the mood for celebration. And while champagne and ‘traditional method’ fizz can command eye-watering prices, prosecco

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was, of course, the first person to point a telescope at the night sky in a systematic, enquiring way. He didn’t invent the telescope, but he did enhance it significantly, and so he was the first person to be able to use o

An Enlightenment poet and revolutionary whose ideals helped pave the way for a secular and democratic Italy Eleonora de Fonseca Pimentel was born in Rome to Portuguese nobility, but moved to Naples as a child after Rome fell out with Portugal. This m

Panettoncini farciti • MAKES 6 • PREPARATION 2-3 hours • BAKING 20 minutes Try this delicious recipe if you’d like to make mini panettone at home – and for our round-up of delicious panettone to buy, turn to page 68! • 12g fresh yeast• ½ cup of lukew

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