An Italian psychiatrist is obtaining startling results with patients suffering from schizophrenia and depression by enlisting them in a competitive football team. Mauro Raffaeli trains his players, many of whom cannot work and are on psychiatric medication, twice a week on a pitch on the outskirts of Rome.
Of the 80 who have passed through the […]
Since he graduated with an architecture degree in 2000, Antonio Incorvaia has held a dizzying number of jobs: graphic designer, television writer, Web editor and journalist for trade and pop culture magazines. At 31, he describes himself as a “serial trainee.”
Like many people of his generation, Incorvaia has had to struggle between the job-for-life mentality […]
In a fightback against the global spread of super-sized frappuccinos and iced cappuccinos, Italy has certified what it considers the classic cappuccino.
In a snub to the Starbucks-driven craze for loading gallons of hot frothy coffee-flavoured liquid into cardboard pots, Italy’s National Institute for Italian Espresso is defending the traditional squirt of steamed milk over a […]
Many examples remain of civil and residential architecture designed by the greatest specialists of the time on behalf of the Medici family which governed the city of Florence and most of Tuscany between the XV century and the first half of the XVIII century.
Quite a number of villas surrounded by splendid parks and gardens were […]
TIME runs at a different pace in Otranto, where the brutal June heat shuts the town down for the entire afternoon, and memories cycle in centuries rather than hours. Perched in the Apulia region, on the southeastern point of Italy’s heel, Otranto is surrounded by a raw, arid landscape more redolent of Greece or Cyprus […]
Today the Abruzzo Apennines are home to wolves, eagles and bears, but millions of years ago the area was dominated by a very different predator.
An Italian biologist, Dr Paola Ottino, has discovered shark teeth in the Majella area of the Apennines that date back to the Miocene period - 23-5 million years ago.
“At that time […]