Francesca Mignosa

contributing writer

I Love Ortigia

February 2019
There is a pearl, so rare and hidden, found in South Eastern Sicily. You hope it will never be spoiled by time and tourism, a sort of lifelong friend I must see every time I return to my home in Sicily. She never disappoints me, never lets me down,...


A Baroque, Cioccolata-filled Winter Escape in Modica, Sicily

January 2019
Modica, la città del cioccolato, è uno dei più pittoreschi siti della provincia di Ragusa e della Sicilia in generale. Tante sono le sue bellezze architettoniche che da alcuni anni l’UNESCO l’ha inserita nella lista dei beni tutelati come...


Dante's Early Illustrations Unveiled by Harvard Scholar

December 2018
Francesca Mignosa, collaboratrice de La Gazzetta Italiana, ha recentemente avuto l’opportunità di intervistare Matthew Collins, accademico e docente presso la prestigiosa Harvard University per parlare della sua tesi dedicata al testo ed alle...


A Royal Winter Retreat in the Italian Alps

November 2018
Legend has it that the railway tracks between Italy and Austria, Switzerland and France were designed even before the birth of the first trains. Innovators and engineers had already imagined that the meeting between these countries would, sooner or...


Dolce Far Niente in San Gimignano

October 2018
I particularly love Tuscany. It is, without a doubt, one of the most romantic and picturesque regions of our beloved land. I most certainly love it for the same reasons as those who pass through it and those who live there: the serenity of the...


Portovenere and the Gulf of Poets

September 2018
È tra i più spettacolari anfiteatri d’acqua della nostra penisola. Il borgo di Portovenere e quello di Lerici ne sono rispettivamente l’estremità occidentale e orientale, La Spezia ne occupa invece la parte centrale. Conosciuto come il golfo dei...


Unveiling the Jewels of Casa Rocca Piccola

July 2018
The Maltese Islands, an archipelago in the central Mediterranean between Sicily and the North African coast, are comprised of three islands; Malta, Gozo and Comino. Malta’s capital city, Valletta, boasts a unique attraction: Casa Rocca Piccola. The...


In Valletta, Malta: Where European Baroque Meets Northern Africa

June 2018
My first impression as the airplane door opened wide and revealed the ancient city of Valletta was that I had reached Northern Africa. The heat was intense and gave the illusion that a city existed and did not exist at the same time. I was also in...


Spring in Assisi, Umbria

May 2018
It is considered one of the most spiritual destinations of Italy. If you wish to embark on a journey of the soul and to immerse yourself in the lives of San Francesco and Santa Chiara, then you must visit the idyllic jewel town of Assisi in the...


AMO: Opera Museum in Verona

April 2018
If you have an appreciation for Opera Music in Italy; backstage, sketches, letters, notes, costumes, scripts, and its history as it unfolded in the idyllic and tranquil city of Verona, you will certainly enjoy a visit to AMO: Opera Museum. The...


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