Cavalleria Rusticana closes Donnafugata’s Verga summer
Mascagni’s opera filled a Sicilian castle park with visitors from abroad, while Verga’s abandoned village comes back to life.
Mascagni’s opera filled a Sicilian castle park with visitors from abroad, while Verga’s abandoned village comes back to life.
A hamlet on Sicily’s Eolian islands reachable only by boat has reopened its school after 20 years, for a class of one.
Sammichele di Bari in Apulia hosts the 18th festival of Italy’s most beautiful villages with a proposed national law on the agenda.
Vallerano in Lazio sets 100,000 candles alight on August 29 as actor Eugenio Mastrandrea celebrates the four seasons.
Pietramontecorvino residents reopen the 138-year-old café that closed in January, and they run it themselves, one cup at a time.
She charges nothing, asks everything, and still smells her gran’s kitchen in Italy, where a new law has shut her people out.
Once held by Monaco’s Grimaldi princes, Gerace is spending 20 million euro to grow without the crowds in Italy’s famous towns.
Mulino del Principe becomes a photo set as the village of Castel San Lorenzo in Campania bets on images to draw visitors inland.
Two shuttered houses, 762 residents, and a mayor betting the borgo can fill again with a pilot scheme underway.
An abandoned Sicilian tannery village immortalised by Verga and Zeffirelli reopens after a 20 million euro rebirth.
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