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Plaza Premium Lounge at Rome Fiumicino Airport: Comfort and Good Food in the Eternal City’s Main Hub

Leonardo Exclusive Lounge at Milan Linate Airport (LIN): An Average Lounge Quickly Forgotten

Vip Pau Casals Lounge, Barcelona El Prat Airport (BCN): One of the Best Airport Lounges I Have Experienced

Prima Vista Lounge at Bologna Marconi Airport (BLQ): Still a Long Way to Go

The Piranesi Lounge at Linate Airport: original Piranesi prints, somewhat cramped spaces, poor food, and plenty of quiet

Discover the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx as you’ve never seen them: history, construction, mysteries, and the real experience before eternity in stone.

The Prima Vista Lounge at Cagliari Elmas Airport: little more than a furnished corridor

The IGA Lounge Istanbul: a model of comfort and quality in a modern and efficient airport

CAC Lounge at Cairo Airport, a disappointing lounge for a dreadful airport

The brand-new GEM Museum in Cairo; architectural splendor and a still incomplete collection.

A few days after I returned from Cairo, Stefano Benni passed away—a curious coincidence, because as I was venturing through the Cairene traffic in a taxi I was thinking of him: in La Compagnia dei Celestini he likened his bunkmates’ nocturnal farts to long oboe notes, while I was mentally likening the taxi drivers’ horn improvisations to a bebop concert. So here is my homage to Cairo’s traffic and its taxi drivers in the style of Stefano Benni—may the Luisona rest lightly upo

Street Photography in Egypt

Discover the history and masterpieces of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo: from the treasure of Tutankhamun to its legacy, suspended between glory and decline.

Where to Eat in Florence: the Caffè delle Oblate, Not for the Food but for the View

Discover Federico da Montefeltro’s Studiolo in Urbino: a Renaissance masterpiece of wooden intarsia, restored and returned to its original splendor.

Luca Signorelli’s frescoes in Orvieto Cathedral: a Technicolor blockbuster of chiseled abs and eternal damnation

Thistlegorm: an advanced wreck dive at 30 meters. Penetrations, currents, nitrox — everything you need to plan your dive.

Do you really want to discover the world? Start by choosing who NOT to travel with.

Discover Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel of Padua — a masterpiece of early 14th-century art that marks the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Plan your visit and explore its history, symbolism, and breathtaking colors.

The Ark of Saint Dominic in Bologna: the extraordinary masterpiece created over two centuries by the most extraordinary dream team of Italian sculpture.