Italy Magazine

6 days ago | italymagazine.com | Laura Itzkowitz

Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is generally hosted on a complimentary basis. Our contributors do not accept compensation or gifts in exchange for specific types of coverage. We only showcase properties we would genuinely recommend overall.

1 week ago | italymagazine.com | Alex Sakalis

Is San Marino a heroic ode to liberty or just a glorified souvenir shop that declared independence? My skepticism toward the world’s oldest republic — a small enclave bordered by Italy (but mostly the province of Rimini) on all sides — had put me off visiting, despite living a short train and bus ride away. The Italians I know harbor generally bad opinions of San Marino, dismissing it as a gimmick or a money laundering racket for dirty Italian money. Think Switzerland without the substance.

2 weeks ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

Three days after Italy’s monarchy was voted to be abolished in June 1946, more than 6,700 diamonds and 2,000 pearl-encrusted gems were surreptitiously deposited in a safe deposit box in Rome’s Bank of Italy headquarters. The treasure trove, worth approximately €300 million in today's currency, belonging to the House of Savoy, was among the only valuables not confiscated when King Umberto II and his heirs were dethroned and banished into exile after World War II.

2 weeks ago | italymagazine.com | Toni DeBella

The tangerine-tinged Aperol Spritz may be all over social media and Italian streets these days, but the summertime standard has been fashionable since as far back as the 1970s. According to Food & Wine, the cocktail’s visibility in the United States started growing after the Campari group acquired Aperol in 2008. Your standard Spritz is made with three parts Prosecco, two parts Aperol (bitter-sweet liquor) and a splash of soda water.

3 weeks ago | italymagazine.com | Mary Gray

Jacopa Stinchelli is from Rome, not Florence, but she’s a Renaissance woman through and through — with the diverse tastes and lofty aspirations to match. An art historian, essayist, environmental advocate and trained psychoanalyst, Stinchelli is the chief coordinator of the Rome Chamber Music Festival, which stages classical and contemporary performances by international musicians in intimate, only-in-Rome settings. Stinchelli puts her mission simply: “There’s so much ugliness today.