Cinque Terre’s Path of Love reopens with charges to ease Insta-tourism Visitors will need to pay up to €15 to stroll – and take photos – along romantic 900-metre walkway in Liguria, Italy The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2024
The Italian cricket-breeders putting a positive spin on insect-based food The Cianni brothers are out to change minds after creating Italy’s first company to produce flour from crickets for human consumption The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024
‘Giving us oxygen’: Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health system Almost 500 Cuban health workers deployed across Calabria amid severe shortage of doctors The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024
‘Meloni’s response left me stunned’: the Italian priest taking on the mafia Maurizio Patriciello has had police protection since a bombing near his church in Caivano, Naples, but he vows to keep fighting crime The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2024
On Lampedusa, a familiar disillusion 10 years after its first refugee tragedy Islanders lament how little has changed despite the crackdown promises of politicians – whom cynics accuse of chasing votes The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2023
Ten years after tragedy, tiny Lampedusa at centre of migration crisis again More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreck The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2023
‘One day it will just go off’: are Naples’ volcanic craters about to blow? Campi Flegrei, a constellation of ancient craters in the south of Italy, is more active than Vesuvius, and residents live with daily tremors The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2023
Italy’s ‘new Michelangelo’ bringing sculpture into 21st century Jago has earned widespread praise for his modern twists on classical art The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023
The man who lives in Maradona’s head: opening a window on the new Naples Ciro Maiello, whose home is adorned with a painting of the player, says Napoli’s first Serie A win since Diego’s days heralds a new dawn for the city The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2023
‘You can’t help but get swept up’: joy as Napoli near first title for 33 years Party fever grips Naples, a southern city long derided by Italy’s northern powerhouses, as Serie A football crown all but certain The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023
‘The beach is like a cemetery’: Italian village grapples with shipwreck aftermath Search and rescue operations still under way in Steccato di Cutro, as anger grows over failure to manage migration humanely The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2023
Venice’s lagoon of 2,000 lost boats: the true cost of dumping small vessels For decades, the city’s wetland has been used as a landfill for discarded wrecks, leaking microplastics and pollutants and posing a risk to others on the water The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2023
Anger grows as illegal construction partly blamed for landslide deaths on Italian island Seven confirmed dead and search continues for people missing after Saturday’s disaster on Ischia The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022
‘I lost everything’: Italians count cost of deadly flood in Marche Eleven people so far confirmed dead in floods that have forced climate crisis onto agenda before next week’s election The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022 Italy’s far right turns Lampedusa’s refugee crisis to its advantage The tiny island, once famed for its welcoming approach to those risking their lives in the Mediterranean, is centre stage as elections approach
The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022 ‘I wept with joy’: young director made guardian of Italy’s temples of Paestum The Greek archaeological sites in Campania are now overseen by Tiziana D’Angelo, 38, one of the few women in such a senior role