Lifestyle in Italy

If you're planning to move to Italy, apart from residency paperwork and finding somewhere to live, getting an Italian health insurance card (known as a Tessera Sanitaria) is one of the first and most important pieces of bureaucracy you’ll need to do.

Valencia, Alicante, Lisbon, Panama City and Singapore. These are the top five best cities in the world for foreigners to live in.

While some other countries in the EU seem to be relaxing their rules over the Christmas holidays, the Italian Government has announced it will crack down on travel both to and within Italy. Italy has announced a range of new COVID-19 rules and restrictions for the Christmas period in 2020,

In 2019, the production of wine sold in the European Union (including sparkling wine, port and grape must) reached almost 16 billion litres.

Known as one of the world's fashion capitals, Milan is an elegant, clean and well organised city. Being the second largest city in Italy after Rome, you are sure to find everything you need in it, but its magnitude can also be intimidating when it comes to choosing where to live.

Trento, Mantua, Pordenone, Bolzano and Reggio Emilia are the cities most committed to planning green urban transformations.

In spite of the difficult circumstances that the tourism industry is facing in Italy and across the world, the World Tourism Awards, considered the "Oscars of the tourism sector" on a global scale, have once again been staged this year (virtually, given the situation).

Working remotely in one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, doing so using high-speed internet and benefiting from an incentive that covers 50% of the rent.

The Italian government recently adopted a series of new, stricter measures in a bid to curb the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country in recent weeks and months.

Italy's world famous Christmas markets, with their charming wooden houses that fill city squares along with the sights and smells of the Christmas season, is something that we are going to have to live without this Christmas 2020, at least in Northern Italy.

The initiatives to encourage the repopulation of Southern Italy and inland areas continue.

Living and working abroad and moving to Italy is an exciting prospect but planning for a big move abroad can be stressful, especially with the added uncertainty that 2020 brings.

"Lockdown Italy, as seen by the Foreign Press" (Lockdown Italia visto dalla Stampa Estera) is the title of the photographic exhibition, curated by the Foreign Press Association in Italy which is currently on display in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitolini Museum in Rome.

Once again this year, the British magazine Time Out has published a ranking of the coolest neighbourhoods in the world.

The Municipality of Milan with the collaboration of SEA Milan Airports has officially launched the Fly to Milan initiative, known as "Fly to Milano".

Brits who are planning to visit Italy in the near future should take note that the UK has been added to the list of countries that must present a negative COVID test on arrival in Italy, along with other new additions including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Belgium.

Whether you want to move to Italy, spend the holidays there or to rent out a holiday home to tourists, this house may be exactly what you are looking for; and not only because it is a beautiful villa with its own swimming pool and garden in the wonderful Tuscan countryside, but a

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect much of the world, the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced that he will ask the Italian parliament to extend the country’s COVID-19 state of emergency to at least the end of January 2021, one year after it began. The current state

Rome Fiumicino Airport is the first airport in the world to be certified with the COVID-19 5-Star Airport Rating by the international air transport rating agency Skytrax. The Skytrax inspection was conducted for 3 days in September and is based on a combination of procedural efficiency checks.

On the shores of Lake Maggiore, in Baveno, the UIM 3D Class Powerboat World Championship, organised by the Italian Powerboat Federation (FIM), is due to take place once again.

Rome and Milan are among the most environmentally friendly cities in Europe.

L'Aquila, Todi and Venice are getting dressed up for their first festival of the arts that will take place to mark the rebirth of the cities after months of forced closure due to COVID-19. From 12th to 24th September 2020 the three Italian cities will promote the culture of the

Italy is home to some of the world's most impressive landscapes, including stunning coastline, lush green countryside and beautiful lakes amongst others.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on many sectors in Italy, with large blows to the economy in the first half of 2020.

The ongoing health and economic crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the required physical distancing measures means that many companies in Italy and across the world have introduced teleworking on a large scale.