Panoram Italia

Dec 5, 2023 | panoramitalia.com | Sarah Barrell

The northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Piedmont have a lot in common — historical cities, majestic mountains and an undeniable love affair with Gorgonzola PDO. Here, we hone in on five production areas celebrating this much-revered cheese. BY SARAH BARRELL for National Geographic – One of the world’s oldest blue-veined cheeses, Gorgonzola PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) is the pride of Italy’s north.

Oct 9, 2023 | panoramitalia.com | Tobias Jones

By Tobias Jones – The Guardian The black letters painted on the walls – announcing the “hostelry” and the “bar” – are fading to nothing. Both have been closed for decades. There’s no building work going on either: in one garden a cement mixer has been rotated upwards, painted yellow and turned into a plant pot. Many of the houses are empty and have hand-written For Sale signs on their front doors.

Sep 13, 2023 | panoramitalia.com | Lee Marshall |Lucrezia Worthington

For anyone looking for stylish places to stay, good food and wine, beach clubs, history, culture and natural beauty, this robustly rustic land is difficult to beatBY LEE MARSHALL AND LUCREZIA WORTHINGTON for Condé Nast Traveller – Back in the 1980s, when everyone was going to Chianti on villa holidays, few of us had even heard of Puglia.

Aug 29, 2023 | panoramitalia.com | Sofia Bettiza

By Sofia Bettiza for BBC – In a small room near the Alps in northern Italy, containers filled with millions of crickets are stacked on top of each other. Jumping and chirping loudly – these crickets are about to become food. The process is simple: they are frozen, boiled, dried, and then pulverised. Here at the Italian Cricket Farm, the biggest insect farm in the country, about one million crickets are turned into food ingredients every day.

Aug 29, 2023 | panoramitalia.com | Andrea Carlo

By Andrea Carlo for Euronews – The curtain has closed on the life of Silvio Berlusconi, the three-time Italian prime minister and media titan whose time on earth felt more like the plot of a Verdi opera – or even one of his TV channels’ soap operas – than anything approximating that of any other politician. Much has been made of il Cavaliere (“The Knight”, as he was nicknamed) and the sleuth of scandals, intrigues, and legal vicissitudes he has left behind.