The Netherlands - The Smartest Port in the World
A genuine gateway into Europe, today Rotterdam is focusing on sustainability and innovation
Editorial posts for: Alessandro Gandolfi
Italy - Gran Paradiso. The King’s Last Park Rangers
A journey through one of the world’s oldest parks, celebrating its 100th birthday in 2022.
Italy - Combating Aridity
Water scarcity and the Emilia Romagna model
Europe - The Baltic Question
Along the border between Russia and NATO, where Russian speakers don’t always feel European
Finland - Russian Exodus
The other great exodus is from Saint Petersburg to Finland, the gateway to Europe. Where Russians and Ukrainian refugees meet
Serbia - Roma Revolution
In Belgrade, with music and a thirst for empowerment, six talented women are on a mission to change the gypsy world.
Italy - Concordia
lt’s ten years since the Costa Concordia disaster, and the ship no longer exists. And yet objects from that tragedy can be found all over Italy. They are relics that tell stories
Poland - The Warsaw Movement
In dark and threatening times music offers some respite in the Polish capital
Italy - The Last Steppe
A wild, stone treasure chest: the rebirth of Alta Murgia
Italy - A Talented Boy Called Roberto
Vercelli is a small town in Italy with a ballet academy that discovered the international star Roberto Bolle
Italy - Life in the Blue Zone
Trying to recreate normality on the only cruise ship currently operating
Italy - Agriculture Turned Upside Down
Climate change in the Mediterranean, new crops, damaged farmland and super technologies
Italy - Plastic Beach
A walk through one of the world’s biggest problems
Estonia - The Next Russian Target?
In the middle of the new Cold War
Italy - Calabria, Europe’s Worst Hospitals
A story of the Mafia and an inefficient health service
Libya - The Making of a Revolution #1
The militias of Shabab, or revolutionary youth, which fought against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces for control of Libya in 2011, could hardly be called an army. They lacked a proper command chain, uniforms, sophisticated weaponry and military skills, and yet they stood up to the national army and kept advancing towards Misratah and Tripoli.As the militiamen […]
Italy - 60-Year-Old Rider
Around Milan Laura delivers all kinds of things, and always on her bike, getting herself in shape for her trip around the world
Malta - No One Ever Conquered Us
Knights, businesspeople and artists: a journey through the lives of the well-to-do in the EU’s smallest country
Italy - Terra Instabilis
Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields: the world’s most fearsome super-volcano is a potential time bomb
Italy - The Secret Venice
This year the Arsenale is to celebrate its 800th birthday
Italy - The Rivers
Going to the beach is sure to be complicated in the first summer in the time of Covid-19. Many, in fact, are choosing to head to the river instead.
Italy - Lombardy No Covid
A glimmer of hope in the region worst affected by coronavirus
Italy - The Corona Poor
Who are the new poor living on the breadline because of Covid-19?
Italy - The Oxygen Route
Covid-19: how the life-saving gas is produced and distributed
Italy - Life Is Now
Managing childbirth amidst fear, loneliness and uncertainty during the pandemic
Italy - War Surgery
How Italy is working to contain the coronavirus “tsunami”
Italy - Coronavirus: Daily Solutions
At school, at church and in the gym: how technology can help us deal with Covid-19
India - Gas Chamber Delhi
The Indian capital is the world’s most polluted city. And the consequences are disastrous
French Guiana - The Gold of Amazonia
Extracting this precious metal in the heart of the forest causes serious damage. How can this be resolved?
World - Immortality, Inc.
The search for eternal life
Lebanon - Syrians in Limbo
They have fled the war in Syria. There are more than a million. But Beirut does not consider them refugees
Middle East - The Lebanese Fragile Dream
Thirty years after the civil war, the country is poised between economic crises and political instability
Italy, Sardinia - Mamoiada. The Last Pagan Dance
In the heart of Sardinia a rite which not even the Romans were able to abolish
Ethiopia - Addis Abeba. The New Flower of Africa
How a populous capital is becoming increasingly relevant on the international stage
Japan - Pure Tokyo
The second you scratch the surface of modernity, you discover centuries of rigorous education in harmony and respect for social position
Japan - The New Hawaii
How the islands of Okinawa are becoming the Queen of the Pacific
Italy - Saint Agatha’s Fever
The religious feast that turns Catania into an open air theater
Italy - Milan, Not Only Fashion
The true avant-garde of Italy, Milan is bursting with energy
Japan - The Village of Longevity
A trip to Ogimi, among the centenarians of Okinawa
California, United States - Silicon Valley Tour
Why are Facebook, Google and Apple the new secular shrines?
Italy - Sardinia Liberated
A few military beaches have been opened to the public. But it’s only a drop
Switzerland - The Invisibles
An unexpected journey throughout Swiss poverty
Turkey - Damascus on the Bosphorus
The better-off Syrians today live in Istanbul
Europe - Standouts & Poors
What really separates the richest and the poorest towns in the EU?
Nepal - Andhō. A Brighter Future
How an NGO is tackling the serious problem of cataracts
Italy - Endless Duomo
Go deep in Milan’s art and history of its most famous Cathedral
Sweden - In the Ghetto
A district where integration and fundamentalism get mixed up
Canada - Nanuk’s World
The capital of polar bears
Switzerland - Gimme Shelter
What is it like to be a refugee in a Swiss fallout shelter?
Austria - (Un)welcome to Austria
Here’s how the migrants will try to cross the Alps
Venezuela - Caracas. The Q Crisis
When a life in a queue is a nightmare come true
Venezuela - Giò Ponti’s Butterfly
The Italian villa dominating Caracas
Venezuela - Caracas’ High Life
Is the country’s capital really the tough place you were told about?
Sierra Leone - Ebola Aftermath
The country is leaving behind its back the Ebola nightmare.
Italy - Climatic Grand Tour
How climate change is reshaping Italy’s landscape
Russia - Kommunalka
Soviet collective households in the noble palaces of Saint Petersburg have not disappeared today
Greece - Athens. La Dolce Vita
Athens today means crisis. But that’s not for everyone
Cuba - Havana Club
Meet the emerging Cuban bourgeoisie
China - Rolls Royce Generation
Young millionaires in Shanghai: not an ordinary Chinese life
Albania - Swinging Tirana
A new life and energy run through the streets of the capital
United States - Chicagoland
Where the American dream was born
Kenya - Young Africans Are Growing Up
In Kenya obesity is becoming a problem, especially among young children
Mexico - Nogales Crossroads
Americans who want to have fun and save on their dental surgery come here: “The oddest frontier – wrote Paul Theroux – I have ever seen”
Italy - Verdi Is Alive!
Son of an innkeeper from the Parma region, became the most famous Italian music composer of all time
Ethiopia - Harenna. Last Coffee Collectors
Carried by donkeys, this coffee grows spontaneously and is still collected by the small local community
Italy - In the Rice Triangle
A perfect network of ditches, streams and small canals ten thousand kilometres long: here is the “European China”
South Korea - Plastic Mania
In Seoul, beauty is an obsession and a scalpel the easiest way to obtain it. A business of over five billion U.S. dollars a year
South Korea - On the Border
The last wall of the Cold War is a funfair closely watched by soldiers
Italy - Horses’ Lost Paradise
Wild horses in Sardinia
Ethiopia - Time to Go Solar
Solar energy in Africa is useful (also) to charge phones and extract water
Ethiopia - The Great Bourgeoisie Awakening
In the horn of Africa there is a proud and independent middle class
Ethiopia - Along the Historical Routes of the North
High plateaus, ancient cities and churches carved out of the rock by angels
Ethiopia - A Waterless Paradise
Drought is an extremely serious problem that is occurring more and more frequently
Ethiopia - Macalle. The Perfect Prison
A model of jail enterprise, here prisoners sell fruit and fabrics, build houses and manage beauty centres
Greece - The Desperates of the Shipwrecks
A journey among the homeless of the Perama shipyards
French Polynesia - Searching for Paradise
For two centuries the Pacific islands have been a symbol of the tropics
United States - De Blasio’s New York
Marx attacks
United States - The Catacombs of Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a mermaid that enchants you with its lights but it is also a living hell for desperate people
Palestine - Zahia’s Trip
In Gaza the health system is collapsing, but leaving the Strip is a nigthmare
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Medjugorje’s Miracle
A new Vatican commssion will search for true holy events
Turkey - Hierapolis
The Roman Spa
Italy - The Strait for Unesco?
Calabria and Sicily joined by the Strait of Messina
Kenya - African Cape Canaveral
The African Cape Canaveral? It’s in Malindi, Kenya, a few degrees south of the Equator, amongst sandy white beaches and coconut palms. Here, in the Sixties, the first European satellites were launched into orbit and for more than twenty years, Italy continued launching rockets into space. Then the Europeans moved to French Guiana and the […]
Peru - The Princess of the Andes
Vicuña’s wool is the fiber of the rich. It is worn by the wealthiest men on earth, the only ones who can afford a coat worth thirty thousand dollar. Five centuries ago, there was only one man in the world who had the right to wear it: it was the Inca king, the ruler of […]
Lebanon - Lebanon’s Fragile Dream
The country has been hit by a severe economic crisis
Brazil - The Forgotten Sertão
It’s the other Brazil, the anti-Amazon, the poorest and most arid region in Latin America. The Sertão, the Brazilian outback, is twice the size of England: part sea, part desert and part steppe, where life is hard and poverty is rife in the streets. Half of South America’s poorest inhabitants live here, in the Sertão, […]
Saudi Arabia - Bye Bye Petroleum
What will the Saudi Arabia of the future be like? The reformist and open-minded Arabia of King Abdullah, sovereign for the past four years, or the austere and conservative Arabia of the Muslim Ulema? I tried to imagine it, travelling from the capital,Riyadh, to the desert of the Nabataeans in the north, and down again […]
Africa - Egyptian Western Desert
In the desert of lost whales
Italy - Crazy Emerald Coast
Whatever happens in Sardinia, stays in Sardinia