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Lifestyle & Everyday Life

When Bella Vita meets Dolce Vita: the Italian attitude to life is celebrated all over the world. Italy is everything but boring. Italy is a feeling.

8 things Italians do on the beach that are completely different from what we do

8 July 20265 July 2026
An evening on the beach at Gallipoli in Apulia

The unwritten laws.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Summer, Beach

This is what Italy sounds like this summer: The Hits of 2026

30 June 202629 June 2026
Rimini Beach

That’s what the loveliest months of the year sound like.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags 2026, Summer hits

„Piano, piano“: What Italians say when we’re stressed

28 June 202628 June 2026

People who live in Italy talk about time differently

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Dolce Vita, Italian, Lifestyle, Language

10 things Italians do differently from us in the summer

24 June 202623 June 2026
What a sunset on the beach at Gallipoli

Why Italians are simply better at enjoying the summer than the rest of the world.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Dolce Vita, Summer

Five things that Italians do differently when eating out

14 March 202630 December 2025
Out and about in Naples in the evening

In Italy, you don't eat to get full.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life, Mamma mia, mangiare Tags Food, Food culture, Art of living, Lifestyle, Mangiare

Everyone knows Dolce Vita - but what about Sprezzatura?

18 November 202518 November 2025
Almost 40 degrees, 50 per cent humidity, a flurry of flashbulbs - and yet the Italian model Francesca Sofia Novello looks deeply relaxed - that's Sprezzatura!

A small style manifesto from the country where nonchalance became an art form.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Lifestyle, Sprezzatura

7 Italian words that instantly put sunshine in your head

23 October 202522 October 2025
What a sunset on the beach at Gallipoli

One word is enough - and suddenly you're there again.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life

Researched! Why Italy speaks with its hands

29 October 202521 October 2025

Full physical effort.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Italian, Italian everyday life, Conversation

When Italy lights up in winter: the most famous Christmas markets

16 October 202516 October 2025

When the days get shorter and the light warmer in Italy, many cities are transformed into stages for Advent.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Advent, Bolzano, Florence, Merano, South Tyrol, Trento, Verona, Christmas market

An end to the grey: how to make your everyday life feel like Italy again

2 October 20251 October 2025
An evening on the beach at Gallipoli in Apulia

How do you get back to Italy when everyday life has long been waiting for you after your holiday?

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Dolce Vita, LIfeststyle

A holiday in Italy begins at the autogrill: the story of a myth

19 September 2025

The first espresso stop on holiday.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Motorway, Autogrill

10 things you need for the Italian beach

17 September 202515 September 2025

A day at the beach is not a day trip, but a staging.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Lifestyle, Beach

How to experience the real dolce vita on holiday in Italy

17 September 202514 September 2025
An unspoilt stretch of coastline in Puglia

People who travel to Italy often want to see a lot - and end up experiencing a lot: themselves rushing around. 

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Dolce Vita, Travel tips, Sightseeing

Deckchairs and the art of living: what Italians really do on the beach

17 September 202514 September 2025
The beach in the Maremma in Tuscany at sunset

An Italian beach day begins with logistical finesse. And everything has its place.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life

Schianti or Chianti: Italian words that many people mispronounce

12 August 202512 August 2025
a group of six bottles of wine sitting on a table

"Expresso" - and other little slips of the tongue.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life

What "Ciao" really means in Italian - and where the word comes from

4 August 20254 August 2025

Five letters, two syllables and a quasi-aristocratic origin.

Categories Lifestyle & Everyday Life Tags Ciao, History, Lifestyle, Venice
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