The Italian way of doing ordinary things — eating lunch, choosing a shirt, setting a table, walking to work — has attracted attention from the rest of the world for so long that it has become a cliché. What this section tries to do is get past the cliché to the actual practice: the specific bars in specific cities where the aperitivo ritual still functions the way it was designed to, the particular towns in Umbria where slow living is not a magazine concept but simply how things have always been organised, the fashion ateliers in Milan where craft still precedes marketing.Italian lifestyle, here, means the substance rather than the image — the food culture, the design intelligence, the built environment, and the social rhythms that together make Italy not just a destination but a different way of thinking about how to live.
Three generations of a Bergamo-area family have built one of the region’s most enduring salons — not through reinvention, but through an unwavering commitment to…
At twenty metres from Piazza Unità d’Italia, one of Europe’s most celebrated squares, a row of jewellery windows on Via Capo di Piazza Gianni Bartoli…
Inside a restored 1930s mill in the south of Milan, a concept store is redefining what it means to dress with intention. In a city…
Italy greatest markets — from Venice's Rialto fish market and Rome's Porta Portese flea market to Palermo's Ballarò food bazaar — a practical guide.
The Italian Sunday lunch — handmade pasta, slow-cooked ragù, and hours at the family table — is a weekly ceremony that visitors can experience if…
How to drink coffee like an Italian: the rules of the espresso bar, regional café cultures from Naples to Venice, and the new specialty coffee…
Between six and eight in the evening, Italy pauses. The working day is over, dinner is still hours away, and the ritual of the aperitivo…
The Italian Sunday is not a day off — it is a performance, a ritual, a weekly reaffirmation of everything the culture holds most dear.…