The Neapolitan presepe is far more than Christmas decoration: an 18th-century social document of city life expressed in terracotta, still made in Naples workshops.
Ferragosto on August 15 empties Italian cities and fills the coasts -- a national holiday with Roman roots that reveals the country values more clearly…
The Palio di Siena is ninety seconds of horse racing built on a year of complex political manoeuvring between the city seventeen rival contrade --…
Venice Carnival is ten days of elaborate masks and costumes with a thousand-year social tradition -- the most photographed event in Italy and one of…