Walls over 500 metres high, a vanished seabed full of fossils, and a flower that grows almost nowhere else. Gorropu is one...
Grown men in tailcoats persuade very expensive white horses to hop, and people have been paying to watch for four and a...
For over a century Asinara was a place of confinement: a leper hospital, a POW camp, the maximum-security prison that held Totò...
A wasted opportunity dressed up as a festival. Carloforte sits on an extraordinary fish, a unique Ligurian-in-Sardinia history, and one of the...
A Cagliari seafood omakase where poor fish becomes extraordinary, local ingredients are used with genuine passion and intelligence, and sixty euros buys...
Forno Brisa in Bologna, near the central train station: excellent viennoiserie, specialty coffee and a formidable marketing machine. An honest review between...
To most visitors the Accademia is the David museum, and they devote ninety percent of their time to a single statue. That...
Breakfast at LUNA by Faro in Rome: outstanding specialty coffee, excellent croissants and brunch, wrapped in a cosmic manifesto of conscious dining.
Ninety-five per cent of visitors accelerate past the four half-carved giants to photograph the David, treating them as the appetiser before the...
Sixty-three tombs cut into the Theban rock. Seti I, Tutankhamun, the broken sarcophagus of Ramesses. The Valley of the Kings, reviewed without...