Discover · Italian Life
The door with no ticket price. This is what people mean when they say they want to live like a local — and it is mostly a matter of hours, not places.
Sila · Calabria, photographed in 1950
Some of this country is documented rather than photographed: this is the Sila in 1950, the same landscape that is a national park today. What changed is the shepherding; what stayed is the shape of the hills.
Siena · and a thousand smaller towns
Every town has its week: a saint, a race, a costume that has been in the family for generations. The Palio in Siena is the famous one, but the pattern — neighbourhood against neighbourhood, once a year — is everywhere.
Bologna · Emilia-Romagna
The porticoes of Bologna run for tens of kilometres through the city — covered pavement built so that people could walk, talk and trade whatever the weather. UNESCO listed them in 2021, but they are not a monument: they are a habit.
Rome · and every piazza with a chair in it
The evening walk, the aperitivo, the second coffee: the parts of Italian life that have no ticket price and no opening hours. They are also the part that a network of people can give you and a booking platform cannot.
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