In spring in Italy we are in full artichoke season and many parts of the country are getting ready for a special ‘sagre’ tasting events, as in the Ladispoli Festival of Artichokes Romaneschi which was started in the 50s. Just in Ladispoli, each year more than 400,000 people participate in Read more…
Everything is called ‘Vannucci’ in Città della Pieve. So even the best hotel in 10 meters from the old town has this name. But for those who know England, entering the hotel Vannucci Città della Pieve offers particular emotions. I lived for a long time between Chester and London to Read more…
Last time we visited the hilltop town of Citta della Pieve (town of churches), deep in Umbria, we strolled around the streets and alleys that Il Perugino walked 500 years ago. On this visit to sample the special restaurants in Città della Pieve, we stayed overnight at the Hotel Vannucci, loyal Read more…
We were driving along a gravel road in the rain looking for horseriding in Umbria. We were near the conjunction between Umbria, Tuscany and Lazio, in the middle of nowhere today, but once it was the centre of the Duchy of Salci (Ducato di Salci). We came across a narrow Read more…
The medieval town of Città Della Pieve a little in Umbria and a little Tuscan, has many pleasant surprises for the wanderer down its alleys onto and around its squares, into churches, through the market on Saturday. A wonderful completion of the walking tour is to walk down Via Vannucci, Read more…
For almost 30 years Francesca Litta has been happily creating taste sensations in Paliano, today managing the agriturismo farm, the Polledrara. She had started in the 80s working in the Park la Selva in which time she operated two restaurants. In 1984 one of the two restaurants had to be Read more…
Sicily, land of sea and nature, full of light and … creativity . A land and a place anthropologically complex and at the same time fascinating : Greek and Roman art, Byzantine and Islamic heritage, baroque and folk traditions do not tell everything about her . We look at the Read more…
Let me tell you the story of a particular invention of an extravagant lover of whisky on the Rocks. He looks like a Scotsman but he is a Sicilian. Doc Sirio is a designer, an expert in gemology and now inventor. What makes intuition? The word intuition means “look inside Read more…
