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Taking you behind the headlines and into the field with veteran journalists Alina Trabattoni and Sabina Castelfranco. Each episode immerses you in the reporting process itself, from discovering stories on the ground to conducting real-time interviews and unscripted discoveries that reveal the authentic Italy across travel, food and wine, art, culture, business, and beyond. This isn't polished news - it's authentic, unfiltered storytelling as it happens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We step inside Palazzo Diedo in Cannaregio with curator Adriana Rispoli, where Berggruen Arts and Culture has staged Strange Rules, the first curatorial reflection on protocol art ever mounted in Italy. Beneath restored
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We climb to Tenuta di Castellaro, 350 metres above the Mediterranean, where founder Massimo Lentsch is rebuilding Aeolian viticulture vine by vine. He tells us how a volcanic archipelago once known for its wines came clo
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We meet Pierpaolo Tiretti on the Vulcanello promontory at Therasia Resort, Sea and Spa, the design-led Aeolian retreat that occupies a piece of Italian television history. The villa was once the hideaway of Mike Bongiorn
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We meet Ilaria D'Uva in Venice, where she has just given a voice to the city's Naval Museum and where two million people a year already hear her words at the Duomo of Milan, the Pantheon, Pompeii and Assisi. She grew up,
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We step inside the Procuratie Vecchie on Piazza San Marco in Venice, a 500-year-old palace closed to the public for five centuries and reopened in 2022 after a complete restoration by David Chipperfield Architects. Emma
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We meet larger-than-life French actress Marianne Borgo in Cannes, where she was practically born into the film festival itself — her uncle was one of the four men who, on a train back from Venice just before the war, dec
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We meet Veronica Sabbag in Cannes at the World Women Foundation, the Brussels based international lawyer and former EU diplomat who left twenty years of conflict management to pick up a different instrument of peace, mus
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We meet Sohrab Mirmont at the World Woman Foundation during the Cannes Film Festival, just as he prepares to shoot his new film in Venice with the cinematographer who once worked alongside his uncle, the late Iranian mas
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We catch Turkish actress and producer Selin Yeninci in Cannes, fresh from a panel and even fresher from her second appearance on Verissimo, where Italian audiences welcomed her as one of their own. As Saniye in Terra Ama
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We sit down with Lorenzo Marsili, philosopher, writer and founding director of Berggruen Institute Europe, inside Casa dei Tre Oci, the 1911 artist's studio on the Giudecca that now serves as the Institute's European hom
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We sit down with Luca Vullo, actor, director, author and cultural ambassador, to explore the gestural language that runs beneath Italian speech like a second grammar. And makes Italy unlike anywhere else on earth. Luca h
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We travel to Gragnano, a hilltop town outside Naples where the mountain wind, sea air and light conspire to create conditions unlike anywhere else on earth. And where Pastificio Di Martino has been making Pasta di Gragna
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We arrive at Masseria Potenti near Manduria, a 16th-century fortified farmhouse in the heart of Puglia, where a family's dream of sharing their corner of southern Italy has quietly grown into one of the region's most bel
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We sit down with Albiera Antinori, at the Forum della Cucina Italiana in Manduria, where the 26th generation of Italy's most storied winemaking family talks dynasty, disruption and the long view. She tells us how Tignane
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We sit down with Miriam De Rienzo Gazzola at Palazzo Maresgallo in Lecce, a sixteenth-century residence rescued from sixty years of abandonment and brought back to life as one of Puglia's most extraordinary boutique hote
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At Tenuta Donna Anna, a working country estate in the heart of Salento, food is not a product — it is a memory. Carlo Cascione and his family grow Senatore Cappelli, an ancient variety of wheat that nearly disappeared in
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We step inside the cellars of Produttori di Manduria, the oldest active wine cooperative in Puglia, where more than 300 grape-growing families have been tending the same ancient vines since 1932. Anna Gennari, who leads
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We step inside the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna with Professor Robin Cormack, one of the world's leading authorities on Byzantine art and author of Byzantine Art for Oxford University Press. Standing beneath some of t
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We sit down with Toni D'Angelo, director and son of Nino D'Angelo, to talk about Nino. 18 Giorni, the documentary that took him back to his father's extraordinary rise from poverty in Naples' San Pietro a Patierno to sta
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We go inside Palazzo Mignanelli in Rome, where the Fondazione Valentino Garavani e Giancarlo Giammetti has unveiled Venus, a stunning exhibition running through May 2026 that brings together art and fashion in spectacula
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