1,000 Years of Bronze at the Marinelli Bell Foundry (Bellissimo, September 2025)
Italy’s Quirkiest Palio is in Molise (Bellissimo, September 2025)
The Lure of Stones and Silence: Hiking in Zagori, Greece (New York Times, September 2025)
How to Explore the Valmarecchia at a Snail’s Pace (Italy Magazine, July 2025)
Fertilia’s Strange Legacy of Fascist Urbanism (Bellissimo, June 2025)
The charming, overlooked Italian city you’ll want to keep to yourself (The Times, June 2025)
The Peculiar Charm of San Marino, a Small Sovereign Nation Big on Local Pride (Italy Magazine, May 2025)
These Exhibitions in Rome Should be on Your Radar for Summer 2025 (Italy Magazine, May 2025)
Carlo Levi Stopped at Aliano (Bellissimo, March 2025)
Everything You Need to Know About Ladin, the Secret Language of the Dolomites (Italy Magazine, February 2025)
Inside Palazzo Citterio, the Modern Art Gallery Freshening Up Milan’s Brera (Italy Magazine, February 2025)
52 Places to Go in 2025: Delphi, Greece (New York Times, January 2025)
Could Pasolini Go Home Again? (Bellissimo, December 2024)
In Bolzano, Check Everything You Think You Know About Italy at the Door (Italy Magazine, November 2024)
These Patterns in Italian Street Names are the Path to Understanding the Country (Italy Magazine, November 2024)
You’ve Probably Overlooked the Bologna Apennines. Here’s Where to Go. (Italy Magazine, October 2024)
The Basilica That Launched 1000 Buildings (Bellissimo, October 2024)
When Pablo Picasso Found Himself in Italy (Italy Magazine, September 2024)
In Bologna, Canals are Cool Again (Italy Magazine, August 2024)
The Levanto-Bonassola-Framura route could get anyone back on a bike (Bellissimo, June 2024)
Mussolini’s Hometown Can’t Figure Out How to Quit Him (The Daily Beast, April 2024)
Bologna Celebrates 150 Years of Guglielmo Marconi and His Global Legacy (Italy Magazine, April 2024)
“It’s Only a Show, It’s Not Life or Death”: Teatro San Carlo’s Artistic Coordinator Shares What He’s Learned So Far (Italy Magazine, April 2024)
Remembering Osvaldo Licini, the misfit of modern Italian art (Bellissimo, April 2024)
Getting to know Pesaro in six buildings (Bellissimo, April 2024)
‘Teli na cusi tin glossa grika?’ (Kathimerini, February 2024)
The magical crowd-free Italian city that stays warm in winter (The Times, February 2024)
Could Kombucha be the Next Big Thing in Italy? This Veronese Brewer Thinks So (Italy Magazine, January 2024)
Ovid, the Abruzzese (Bellissimo Magazine, October 2023)
Meet the young European families swapping the city for life on an eco-commune (Euronews, October 2023)
Does the World’s Only Gelato University Offer the Coolest Diploma in Italy? (Italy Magazine, October 2023)
Why Greeks are giving up on the beach this summer (Euronews, August 2023)
The Surreal Success Story of One Formerly Abandoned Island of the Venetian Lagoon (Italy Magazine, August 2023)
7 Highlights of the Brenta Riviera (Italy Magazine, August 2023)
The Shoe Museum in Small-Town Veneto is Bonkers but Beautiful (Italy Magazine, June 2023)
Skinny Smugglers, a French King’s Body, and the Odd European City Home to the Other Cold War Wall (The Daily Beast, May 2023)
FICO Has Been Around for Five Years. Can it Go On? (Italy Magazine, April 2023)
Greece’s Forgotten Muslim Villages (New Lines Magazine, January 2023)
An Untouched Paradise in Greece Under Threat (The Daily Beast, December 2022)
Arseny Avraamov: The forgotten Soviet genius of modern music (BBC Culture, November 2022)
An Ode to the Porrettana, Italy’s Original Transappenine Line (Italy Magazine, October 2022)
Greece reborn: reversing the fortunes of a ghostly mountain village (The Guardian, October 2022)
Milan city guide: your weekend break sorted (The Times, September 2022)
Getting to Know the Grecia Salentina (Italy Magazine, September 2022)
The Curious Afterlife of a Fascist Utopia (Atlas Obscura, September 2022)
Eight of the most stunning opera houses in the world (BBC Culture, August 2022)
The forgotten Italian mountain haven that’s been hiding in plain sight (The Telegraph, August 2022)
Eight of Italy’s Lesser-Known Train Lines (Italy Magazine, August 2022)
One of the Greatest Collections of Italian Art Is in This Tiny Mountain Town (The Daily Beast, August 2022)
An Architectural Tour of 20th-Century Bologna (Italy Magazine, July 2022)
Cycling Adventures in the Bologna Countryside (Italy Magazine, June 2022)
This Ancient City Known for Blood Sport Is Still Around (The Daily Beast, June 2022)
Five Easy Day Trips from Bologna (Italy Magazine, May 2022)
After Mass Grave of Skeletons Found, Some Won’t Set Foot in This Starchitect’s Library (The Daily Beast, April 2022)
The Historic Map Room of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Reopens After 20 Years (Bellissimo Magazine, April 2022)
Why is there a bust of Lenin in the centre of this Italian town? (Italics Magazine, March 2022)
Athens: The enduring city (Kathimerini, March 2022)
Stranding of three whales in Corfu raises alarm over seismic testing for fossil fuels (The Guardian, March 2022)
Athens’ Architectural Heritage Is Slowly Slipping Away but These Heroes Are Saving It (The Daily Beast, January 2022)
A Day Trip to Reggio Emilia – Northern Italy’s Overlooked Gem (Italy Magazine, January 2022)
What happens to fascist architecture after fascism? (BBC Culture, January 2022)
Incredible Design – Calatrava’s Architectural Contributions in Reggio Emilia (Italy Magazine, January 2022)
Europe’s Most Scenic Train Ride Takes You Places You Didn’t Think a Train Could Go (The Daily Beast, January 2022)
To Get Into this Stunning Hidden Library You’ll Need to Read a Book (The Daily Beast, December 2021)
Italy’s Most Mysterious Region Has Warrior Princesses and a Marmot Obsession (The Daily Beast, November 2021)
The Greek region too remote for maps (BBC Travel, October 2021)
Greek revival: how Corfu’s 14th-century ghost village came back to life (The Guardian, October 2021)
More Than Just Tortellini: The Best International Restaurants in Bologna (Italy Magazine, October 2021)
Gio Ponti: 10 Iconic Buildings by Italy’s Most Influential Designer (Italy Magazine, August 2021)
Biography of an island: multifaceted Sicily (openDemocracy, July 2021)
Emilia-Romagna: The Land of Motors (Bellissimo Magazine, July 2021)
Prince Philip’s secret return visit to the island of his birth (The Independent, April 2021)
The Italians who fought for Greek independence (Italics Magazine, March 2021)
How Much Does it Cost to Live in Italy: Bologna (Italy Magazine, September 2020)
The Best Restaurants in Corfu, Greece, According to Local Chef Spyros Kontopoulos (Culture Trip, August 2020)
The 10 Most Beautiful Beaches in Corfu, Greece (Culture Trip, July 2020)
How to Make the Most of 48 hours in Corfu, Greece (Culture Trip, July 2020)
The Italian village that’s offering tourists a free holiday this summer (The Telegraph, June 2020)
48 Hours in Gorizia: Beauty, Intrigue and Goulash on Italy’s Balkan Borderland (Italy Magazine, June 2020)
The Balkans and the Meaning of Nowhere (openDemocracy, February 2020)
The Italian region that ‘doesn’t exist’ (BBC Travel, October 2019)
Get Out of Town on This Half-day Cycle Trip from Bologna (Italy Magazine, October 2019)
Why does Athens look so quirky? (BBC Culture, October 2019)
A Forgotten Armenian History on a Small Greek Island (Armenian Weekly, August 2019)
48 Hours in Udine – The Historical Capital of Friuli (Italy Magazine, July 2019)
At the crease in Greece: How cricket thrives in Corfu (The Economist, September 2018)
The strange beauty of Greece’s weirdest town (BBC Culture, January 2018)
Is Europe colonising itself? A review of “Europe’s Forbidden Colony” (openDemocracy, February 2017)
What UK-EU relations do we want and what is the ‘good society’? An interview with Catherine West MP (openDemocracy, October 2016)
Interview with Adrian Zandberg, Partia Razem (openDemocracy, August 2016)
Enver Hoxha: the lunatic who took over the asylum (openDemocracy, March 2016)
“This is not a time for splitting up, but for convergence.” An interview with Zoe Konstantopoulou (openDemocracy, March 2016)
“A Gramscian party in a non-Gramscian world.” An interview with Paul Mason (openDemocracy, December 2015)
How to change a city from the bottom up: an Italian example (openDemocracy, November 2015)
“One very simple, but radical, idea: to democratise Europe.” An interview with Yanis Varoufakis (openDemocracy, October 2015)
A tale of two parks: a conversation between activists in Armenia and Turkey (openDemocracy, July 2015)
The symbolism of NO in Greece (openDemocracy, June 2015)
Scenes from a bullying (openDemocracy, June 2015)
Turkey is changing, and I am part of that change: an interview with filmmaker Fatih Akin (openDemocracy, April 2015)
Judgment in Hungary (openDemocracy, June 2014)
Greece: how deep does this River run? (openDemocracy, May 2014)
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