Step inside this Italian home for design inspiration that’s anything but grey

Step inside this Italian home for design inspiration that’s anything but grey

The result is halfway between nonsense and fairytale,a house more illustrated than designed.

  • byFrancesca Venturoni

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Michelangelo ‘painted a woman’s breast cancer’ in the Sistine Chapel

The naked woman was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic fresco,known as The Flood,painted between 1508 and 1512.

  • byJosephine McKenna
When Collette Dinnigan did a tour in Italy,she didn’t expect to find a kindred spirit

When Collette Dinnigan did a tour in Italy,she didn’t expect to find a kindred spirit

Meeting French cook and author Mimi Thorisson was the beginning of a special friendship.

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I hadn’t heard of this beautiful,tiny country until I visited it

I hadn’t heard of this beautiful,tiny country until I visited it

The entire country of San Marino,just 61 square kilometres,is UNESCO World-Heritage listed.

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Andrew Brolese and his partner allegedly used “malicious pop-ups” to disable users’ computers to skim more than $47 million from elderly Americans.

  • byJosephine McKenna
Forget Spain:Italy’s Camino trail is older,longer and less crowded

Forget Spain:Italy’s Camino trail is older,longer and less crowded

The Via Francigena was Europe’s overland spine,and it’s now growing in popularity as a slow-travel option through the continent’s most touristic countries.

  • byLuke Slattery
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The culinary clash causing a food war in Sicily

The culinary clash causing a food war in Sicily

An extension of the feud between Sicily’s two largest cities,Palermo and Catania,this is the rice dish that divides an island.

  • byKerry van der Jagt
The latest sites to join the renowned World Heritage list

The latest sites to join the renowned World Heritage list

World Heritage designations are made when places nominated by their home country are assessed and deemed of “outstanding universal value to humanity”.

  • byJulietta Jameson
Self-healing concrete? The Romans thought of that

Self-healing concrete? The Romans thought of that

Modern concrete is much less resilient than the concrete used in Roman times. Now researchers think they know why.

  • byAmos Zeeberg
The cuisine of Italy is not just pizza,pasta and gelato. It’s so much more

The cuisine of Italy is not just pizza,pasta and gelato. It’s so much more

Food feeds the soul,and there’s no better country to feast to your heart’s content.

  • byMaria Pasquale
‘Renovating with Google Translate’:what it’s really like buying a home in Europe

‘Renovating with Google Translate’:what it’s really like buying a home in Europe

Fantasising about an Umbrian holiday home or an airy apartment right by the Acropolis? Meet three women who’ve made their European home dreams come true.

  • byDilvin Yasa