By Giorgio Massignan 2026 will be remembered as the year in which thousands of trees were felled across Italy. Some 30,000 in Rome alone. In Bologna, chainsaws were at...
In evidenza
Day-Trippers and Local Visitors
Not All Visitors Experience the City in the Same Way by Simone Vesentini From behind the counter of my osteria, I see two different Veronas every day. There are those...
Leonardo da Vinci and the Indies
(Angelo Paratico) It is not unreasonable to think that Leonardo da Vinci knew Amerigo Vespucci personally, given that the two were almost the same age. Yet the artist...
Serie A Begins Again: Italy’s Football at a Crossroads
The return of Serie A brings the usual excitement: new managers, ambitious transfers and the eternal question of who will lift the Scudetto. Italian football still...
BIONIC EAR, VIBRATING JACKET AND IMMERSIVE VISOR OFFER NEW WAY TO EXPERIENCE MUSIC
A vibrating acoustic jacket and an immersive headset are being used to help deaf people with cochlear implants do more than simply understand speech — they could allow...
THE STRATIGRAPHIC EXCAVATIONS THAT REVEALED ROMAN VERONA IN THE 1980s
THE WORK OF TWO ENGLISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS, PETER HUDSON AND SIMON THOMPSON (Antonella Traina) The 1980s. Verona. The architect Libero Cecchini was commissioned by the city...
Is Latin making a comeback?
Reginald Thomas Foster (1939-2020) was an American Catholic priest and friar of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. From 1970 until his retirement in 2009, he worked in...
Massimo Dal Fior created Verona’s light and soft pastries
(Donatella Dal Maso) The ticking of the clock marks Massimo’s perfection every day: the pastries emerge from the oven unrivalled, the result of continuous and arduous...
When the italian Bersaglieri liberated Gaza
(Angelo Paratico) Kaiser Wilhelm II’s triumphant entry on horseback into Jerusalem on 31 October 1898 – then part of the Ottoman Empire – sent shockwaves through...
NEGRAR INTRODUCES NEW TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT RECOVERY OF PATIENTS WITH TETRAPLEGIA
The IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital in Negrar has introduced an innovative technology for the rehabilitation of upper limbs in patients with tetraplegia,...
Veneto Named Italy’s Top Region for Healthcare
The Veneto has once again emerged as Italy’s best-performing region for healthcare, according to the latest assessment of the country’s Essential Levels of Care (LEA)....
Euro 2032: Pressi urges backing for Verona bid
‘We cannot afford to miss out on €4.6 bn in economic benefits – or the chance to redevelop our stadium’ Institutional backing is gathering pace for Verona's bid to host...
University of Verona tops Italian graduate employability rankings
The Censis 2026/2027 report confirms a strong performance for the Venetian institution across job prospects, internationalisation, and teaching quality The University...
Verona loses the architect of its Scudetto as Osvaldo Bagnoli dies aged 91
By Francesca Romana Riello Osvaldo Bagnoli died this morning at the age of 91. As manager, he guided Hellas Verona to the 1985 Serie A title, the only Scudetto in the...
SHAKESPEARE’S THE WIND BLOWS FROM AUSTRALIA TO VERONA
By Francesca Romana Riello Australian theatre company Shakespeare South, based in Perth, is bringing The Wind to Verona after winning the international call launched by...
Verona at the centre of International Medical Research on Vitamin D
Verona reaffirmed its historic role in vitamin D research with the successful of a international conference held on 22 and 23 May at the Hotel Leon d’Oro. The two-day...
Rosalba Carriera: A Great Venetian Portraitist
A record price was achieved in Milan at the Cambi auction house.
A mysterious Italian Consul in the Far East: Eugenio Zanoni Volpicelli
(Angelo Paratico) While living in China, I read everything I could find about Eugenio Zanoni Volpicelli, Italian Consul in Hong Kong from 1899 to 1919. I often...
Giuseppe Salvago Raggi, Italy’s greatest diplomat
The most recent edition of Giuseppe Salvago Raggi’s (1866–1946) memoirs was published in 2011: *Ambasciatore del Re. Memorie di un diplomatico dell’Italia liberale*...
The First Italian Campaign of Napoleon
(Angelo Paratico) A few days ago, at the Mameli bookshop in Verona, we attended a presentation of the book "Marcia per la Gloria. La prima campagna d’Italia di...
Niccolò Machiavelli commemorated in Verona
On 28 March 2026, the association Pro 4 Women organized a meeting dedicated to Niccolò Machiavelli, on the eve of the 500th anniversary of his death, which will occur in 2027.
That Bookworm of Adolf Hitler
(Angelo Paratico) A Roman scholar of the 4th century AD, reflecting on the state of his society, wrote: “In schools, singers have taken the place of teachers of...
The Italian Relationship with Time (It’s Not What You Think)
(David Benedetti) If you ask many foreigners about Italians and time, you will probably hear the sameanswer: they are always late. Trains are missed, dinners start...
Vinitaly Tourism expands as wine travel moves centre stage
A fast-growing sector reshaping Italy’s wine industry. For a long time, wine tourism sat on the sidelines of the wine business. That is no longer the case. (Francesca...
Why Shops Close When You Need Them Most
If you are new in Verona, you may have already discovered a small mystery: shops often close exactly when you need them. Need a pen at 12:45? Closed. Looking for socks...
Why English Is Everyone’s Subject — but No One’s Language
There is a quiet paradox running through Italian classrooms: English is everyone’s subject, yet it is no one’s language. It appears in the curriculum from primary...
A MASTER IN WRITING IN THE ANCIENT LAND OF GRAZIA DELEDDA
Based in Oristano, Sardinia, and inspired by the legacy of Grazia Deledda, Nobel Prize in Literature. It is about to begin. A low-residency graduate program taught in...
Why Amarone Is Not Just a Wine, but a Way of Waiting
Amarone is often described through numbers: alcohol percentage, years of ageing, and price per bottle. Yet none of these really explains what it is. Amarone is not just...
What British Wine Lovers Notice First — and Italians Last
Wine, often regarded as a cultural symbol, can reveal a great deal about the personalities andpreferences of its consumers. For British wine lovers, the first thing...
The world’s first automobile factory was established in Padua, yet few Paduans are aware of this.
(Angelo Paratico) Confident in the future of the automobile, which he invented, engineer Enrico Zeno Bernardi (1841–1919) began his entrepreneurial activity in 1896...
The church that protects us from the Germans
(Angelo Paratico) San Giovanni Lupatoto is an Italian municipality with 25,000 inhabitants in the province of Verona, which it borders. It is located southeast of the...
Paolo Sammarco appointed interim manager of Hellas Verona
After a period of extremely poor results and a heavy defeat in their last match, Hellas Verona has decided to relieve Paolo Zanetti of his duties as first-team manager....
Verona. Passes for the Yellow Zone
(by Francesca Romana Riello). Starting today, Wednesday, January 29, it is possible to request passes for access to the so-called Yellow Zone, the pre-screening area...
Salvatore Quasimodo won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1959, later he convinced the jury not to give the same prize to Giuseppe Ungaretti, using the reason that he had been a Fascist.
It is said that Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) wrote only one poem that everyone knows, the one inspired by Psalm 137 of the Bible. However, it would be more accurate...
WINE VALPOLICELLA CONSORTIUM: WITH UNESCO CUISINE AND THE AMARONE OLYMPICS.
WINE VALPOLICELLA CONSORTIUM: WITH UNESCO CUISINE AND THE AMARONE OLYMPICS. OPERA PRIMA LIGHTS UP VERONA FROM 30 JANUARY TO 1 FEBRUARY (Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella,...
RANA VERONA NEVER GIVES UP: BTS ARENA CONQUERED
Trento, 11 January 2026 – Rana Verona refuses to give up, winning in a tie-break and claiming its second Adige derby of the season. After trailing by two sets, Coach...
The great Venetian enterprise of a fleet moving over the mountains
(Angelo Paratico) Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The story is partly inspired by the life of the Peruvian Carlos Fitzcarrald...
VERONA AND SHAKESPEARE’S JULIUS CAESAR
(Angelo Paratico) Few people are aware that Orlando Pescetti, a Veronese by adoption, was one of William Shakespeare's sources when writing his play Julius Caesar....
Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 200 million years were discovered in the Alps
(Angelo Paratico) In the heart of Stelvio National Park, among snow-capped peaks, a trail of dinosaurs from the Late Triassic period has emerged, preserved in the...
Juliet’s Balcony: a wake-up call for Verona
The recent ranking published by the British daily The Telegraph, which placed Juliet’s House among the tourist attractions “to avoid”, has caused surprise and...
107 years ago the 332d Infantry was in Villafranca and Valeggio.
(AP) For the Allied Powers, battered and exhausted after nearly three years of bloody, indecisive, trench warfare, the American entry into World War I in April 1917...
Verona, where history is part of everyday life.
With UNESCO recognition and vibrant traditions, Verona preserves a heritage that lives on every day. Every day, working in the heart of Verona, I hear the same...
A great musical gift from Italy to France
La Marseillaise is rightly considered the most beautiful national anthem in the world. Most listeners believe it was composed on the night of 25 April 1792 by Claude...
William Shakespeare and Gerolamo Cardano
(Angelo Paratico) Shakespeare's The Tempest is considered his last work, and in the monologue of the magician Prospero on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda,...
Montagnana: The Middle Ages close to Verona
(Angelo Paratico) Montagnana is a municipality located 55 km from Verona, towards Padua. It remains largely untouched by international tourism, and even few Italians...
An Italian in the British Royal Family
(Angelo Paratico) A private wedding took place at the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park on 17 July 2020, when Edoardo Alessandro Mapelli Mozzi married...
Ortensio Lando on the greatness of women
(Angelo Paratico) Ortensio Lando (Milan 1508/13? – Naples 1558) took as nickname The Tranquil. But in reality, he was an adventurous and troubled man of the...
Bookwalk: Verona walks among books and conviviality
(by Francesca Romana Riello) From morning coffee to evening aperitifs and dinner with the author, literature returns to the streets of Verona with Bookwalk, the city’s...
Hostaria, October 17–19, 2025: a Festival where wine, culture and tourism meet in Verona
Every October, Verona turns into a city-wide toast. For one long weekend, streets, squares and courtyards in the historic center become a stage for conviviality, taste,...
Music as a global language of care: Verona hosts International Conference on musictherapy
More than a thousand participants, both in person and online, gathered at the Teatro Filarmonico of Verona for the first edition of Risonanze. Sound Communities for...