Toni DeBella

1 week ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

Easter weekend has long been the unofficial kickoff of the high travel season in Italy, and 2025 is no different: The Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) reported that six in 10 hotel rooms across the country are booked for the holiday. Of the estimated seven million travelers from abroad who will touch down in Italian airports this spring, 28.5% will land in Rome — some specifically for the Vatican’s Jubilee Year, but plenty of others just for garden-variety vacation time.

1 week ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

When I’m stateside, there’s no weekend pastime I enjoy quite like rifling through a good rummage sale. But the garage, yard, tag or “car boot” sales of secondhand items that are so beloved in the United States and United Kingdom aren’t the norm here in Italy. It’s not that Italians don’t appreciate old things, of course.

2 weeks ago | wetheitalians.com | Toni DeBella

BY: Toni DeBella |Italy is no stranger to scaffolding. The need for infrastructural and aesthetic upgrades to the country's cultural attractions is near-constant; necessary maintenance as well as all-out renovations can keep many places off limits to visitors for extended periods of time. When sites of interest reopen, it's arguably even better news for the host towns than it is for travelers.

2 weeks ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

Italy is no stranger to scaffolding. The need for infrastructural and aesthetic upgrades to the country’s cultural attractions is near-constant; necessary maintenance as well as all-out renovations can keep many places off limits to visitors for extended periods of time. When sites of interest reopen, it’s arguably even better news for the host towns than it is for travelers.

1 month ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

Rome’s National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini opened “Caravaggio 2025” last week, kicking off one of the most highly anticipated exhibitions of the Jubilee Year. It’s a blockbuster pairing of Baroque painting’s biggest superstar with Baroque Rome’s prototypical palace.