A great-grandparent from Italy used to be all it took to guarantee Italian citizenship. A surprise decree has now changed all ...

Vernazza is one of the five villages that constitute Cinque Terre on Italy's northwest coast. This stunning fishing village ...

Coffee is quick and you drink it at a bar, not a café My first culture shock came when I asked for directions to a café and was pointed to a bar. In Italy, typically bars are for a quick coffee ...

Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were ...

La Bella Vita is our regular look at the real culture of Italy – from language to cuisine, manners to art. This newsletter is published weekly and you can receive it directly to your inbox, by going ...

LeanTeam is emblematic of a new breed of fast-growing Italian digital start-ups shaking up the way business is done in an economy typically seen as deeply resistant to change.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Italian entrepreneur Alessandro Seina first stepped into the sharing economy more than a decade ago ...