Milano Skyline: the Ever-Changing Landscape
This is the first in a series of articles about the most exciting modern architecture in Milan. Milan’s best-known building is its statue-encrusted Gothic cathedral, the Duomo (started in 1386 and com...
Daylight Savings Time in Italy
Italy, like many other countries, continues to adhere to the practice of Daylight Saving Time (DST), known in Italian as “Ora Solare.” DST involves the clock being set forward one hour in the spring a...
Traveling by Train in Italy
All aboard! Okay, so the train conductors do not actually shout those exact words, but the point has been made: hop on the trains to discover what Italy has to offer. Not only will you experience ease...
Balzare all’Occhio: Italian Style and Eyewear
The Italian expression balzare all’occhio means to attract someone’s attention, to be noticeable. Italians are known for having a great sense of style, and their eyewear is no exception. Italy has a l...
Milano 18th Photo Festival
Photofestival 18th Edition Milan and Lombardy | 15.09 – 31.10.2023 Opening Up the World: Photography as a Civil Commitment Dedicated to photography as a civil commitment, the 18th edition of Photofest...
The “Shop, Sip & Save” Event Unfolds a Day of Exquisite Cultural Indulgence
Milan, Italy – – Serravalle Designer Outlet and Easy Milano international expat community, in collaboration with the Benvenuto Club of Milan, successfully hosted the highly anticipated “Sip, Shop & S...
How to Plan the Best Serravalle Designer Outlet Shopping Day
How to get the most out of a shopping excursion to Serravalle Designer Outlet near Milan Are you looking for a great shopping excursion and day trip from Milan? Look no further than Serravalle Designe...
Falling in Love with Lecco
What’s your favorite city in Italy? Write to us and tell us about yours!Celia Abernethy, travel advisor and Easy Milano contributor answers below. Ask me what my favorite city in the USA is, and of co...
Top 10 Reasons Why Milano Is the Best Choice for a Long Weekend
Milano, internationally known for fashion and design, is a city of nuances, a city that can be experienced in a thousand different ways. Here are the top 10 reasons by YesMilano – Milan’s official pro...
Writing for Stage and Screen: English Theatre Milan Masterclass with Ann Marie Di Mambro
English Theatre Milan recently organised an online Masterclass “Writing For Theatre And Television” led by the acclaimed Scottish theatre and TV dramatist Ann Marie Di Mambro, who explained the differ...
Easy How-To Guide to Getting Married in Italy
Italy is one of the most popular locations for destination weddings. When planning your dream wedding, you want it to be perfect. Just imagine a lakeside wedding at Lake Como or an intimate gathering ...
Affordable Milanese Style Décor
How to decorate your home with Milanese Style without breaking the bank Now that you live in Milan, you have probably started dressing and eating like a local, but have you applied your knowledge of M...
Living in Italy is great, but it’s not always ‘la dolce vita’
Living in a new culture presents challenges and surprises. Mary Catherine Holcomb, writer, teacher and seasoned expat is now living in Milan, Italy. In this article, she shares her views and insights ...
A Quick Guide to Living in Milan, Italy
Milan, Italy, is often described as the world’s fashion capital. In addition to being home to many global clothing and luxury brands, such as Bulgari, Prada and Versace, it is also Italy’s central bus...
Italy News in English
Do you find it hard to keep up to date with what’s going on in Italy? Although we are not a news site (and do not aim to be), we try to keep our readers and members informed on what matters. Get Easy ...
The Octopus and the Wedding Proposal
“How did Salvatore propose?” a friend asked recently, referring to my Italian husband. When I told her that we’d decided to get married in Positano, she said that sounded breathtakingly romantic.Littl...
Learn Something New in 2022
January is always a time for making new year resolutions. Unfortunately, following through on resolutions is often frustrating and discouraging. Too frequently, people set their goals based on what ot...
How to Find Covid-19 Info for Italy
Since November 2020 when the Italian government and Minister of Health implemented a color-coded tier system indicating Covid-19 criticality of each region, restrictions and regulations seem to change...
Italian Style Christmas
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And although you may be far from home, make the most of the season with our tips on how to celebrate an Italian Style Christmas. Your beginner’s kit should...
English Speakers Dis Mask Wearing Rules, Italian Speakers Obey
Italians are more likely to wear masks than Brits or Americans As the news of wearing a face covering in shops in England becomes mandatory from 24 July (with a fine of £100 for those who fail to comp...
Adventure Parks in Italy – great time for friends and family!
Adventure parks (parchi avventura) are a fairly new phenomenon in Italy, but there are quite a few that are really worth visiting. Apart from being great places where everybody, children and grown ups...
For Italy Free Covid-19 Vaccines This Autumn
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza and ministers from Germany, France and the Netherlands met to sign an agreement with UK based bio-pharmaceutical company Astrazeneca for the supply of up to 40...
Lockdown Phase 2 – 4th May 2020: List of shops and services opening
The Decree DPCM April 26 2020 identifies in Annexes 1 and 2 the commercial activities allowed to open as from May 4th 2020. These measures will remain valid until May 17th . The following list includ...
IOM in Italy to support British Nationals who want to regulate their status in Italy
Rome, 18 April 2020 – Supporting British Nationals with the necessary local procedures to obtain and maintain their right to be resident in Italy after the end of the transition period. This is the o...
Cassoeula Recipe
Cassoeula specialty typically from Milan, Lombardy. It is considered a ‘poor man’s dish,’ prepared with Savoy cabbage and pork, in fact it uses less choicer parts of the latter, but makes for a heart...
Val Tidone – a castle on every hilltop
You know you’re in Val Tidone when you see a castle on practically every hilltop, when you find yourself surrounded by a literal sea of vineyards, and when the road winds lazily through one hamlet aft...
Eating the Italian Way
For Italians food is something extremely special. It is connected with pleasure, tradition, family and leisure and must always be savored with gusto! In Italy, eating is synonymous with slow, so take ...
Italy’s top spa destinations
Spa, or terme in Italian, have been known since the dawn of time for their healing powers, offering a range of treatments that include: bathing (hot springs – thermae hot tub, mud bath, hydro massage,...
Italian Holidays
Moving to a new country has all sorts of novelties including a few new holidays to get used to. So before being the odd one racing to work on a day in which you could have stayed in bed, jot down thes...
Understanding Italian coffee
In Italy drinking coffee is a ritual. Italians love going to cafés for their coffee and if skipped they won’t survive the day. Before you order a coffee, let’s clarify first the difference between caf...
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