Articles in Fuori Porta
Mary Jane Cryan’s “Etruria – Travel, History, and Itineraries in Central Italy” is written with the deep knowledge of a scholar and the passion of someone who wasn’t born there. Aside from her knowledgeable itineraries …
Travellers to the Bel Paese often seem to wander the country in a food-and-art-induced dream-like state — and those who have chosen to live here are soon struck by the surreal bureaucracy — so Perugia’s …
This just in via the trenitalia card-holders’ newsletter . Trenitalia is offering a deal on trains to Padova (part of the Promo Autunno, looks like you can get there from Florence for 19 euros!), …
With thanks to my friend Devin on facebook who shared this video of the very fashionable inhabitants of a small town in Sicily…
It’s actually a viral video campaign made for Sicilia Fashion Village. I’m not …
I don’t have an ipad, so when I heard that there was an ipad app for the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture, I thought “cool” and that was it. Now there’s also an iphone app …
If Naples is “Italy’s most misunderstood city,” I have to wonder why. And in my case, I felt the need to understand it better. By going there. But before boarding the train, I read everything …
Rebecca of Brigolante Guest Apartments in Umbria (near Assisi) is on a campaign to convince me that Umbria is cool. On occasion of Contemporary Art Day in Italy (which falls this Saturday October 9, 2010), …
The MART is one of Italy’s most important contemporary art museums , and last year they were one of only four Italian museums on twitter (now there are 7, wow. See followamuseum). This made me …
A breath of fresh air in the modern and contemporary art scene of Italy, in Venice during the Biennale and continuing until January 9, 2011.
Forty large scale, mostly black and white, photographs shot over …
Context Travel has just announced a useful product: a greeting service, orientation walk, and informational handbook for a safe and seamless visit to Italy’s most misunderstood city: Naples. If you’ve ever considered going to Naples …
I was searching through some photos from field trips that I led for UGA in 2008 in a bout of nostalgia brought on by an upcoming visit from my friends Roy and Terry who were …
It’s the first weekend in August, which means it’s bollino nero because of the esodo, and if you don’t do a partenza intelligente, you’re screwed. Have no idea what I’m talking about? You need an …
