Shopping at an Italian market like a local comes down to four habits: say buongiorno before anything else, let the stallholder choose and weigh the produce, ask for amounts in etti (100 grams) or by the piece, and buy what is in season. In Florence, the Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio is
October is when language courses start. Schools publish their fall schedules, the local adult education center opens registration, and the conversation groups that went quiet in August start meeting again. It is the easiest month of the year to begin. Most people who move to Italy arrive with good intentions
It’s no exaggeration to say that Italians live for sagre. Our in-house experts are here to explain what a sagra is and which Tuscan autumn events deserve a place on your calendar, with some advice on enjoying them as much as locals do. Italy’s food festivals run nearly year-round but
For families who moved to Italy and enrolled kids in local schools, the first weeks bring small surprises that no enrollment form mentions: short days, new words, unfamiliar habits at the school gate. By the end of September, the grembiule (smock) has acquired its first ink stain and the parent
Clients often use “visa”, “permit to stay” and “residency card” as if they were one document. They are three, issued by three different authorities, and the order in which they come decides how long the whole move takes. It might look like a question of semantics. But the visa, the
Updated August 2026. This article first appeared in December 2025. At that time the Court of Cassation and the Ministry of the Interior held that a parent’s foreign naturalization during a child’s minority broke the line of descent. That position no longer stands. On 26 July 2026 the Sezioni Unite
In the last week of July 2026, before the Italian courts closed for the summer, the question of Italian citizenship by descent reached the Court of Justice of the European Union. Two decisions landed within three days, and neither of them changed the law. The reform applies exactly as it
Not everyone who dreams of living in Italy can do so through citizenship by descent, either because they have no Italian bloodline or because the recent reforms (upheld by Constitutional Court Judgment No. 63/2026) narrowed the generational reach of jure sanguinis. While we await further clarifications that may reopen certain
Italy’s investor visa rolls out a red carpet to residence for non-EU high-net-worth individuals: four investment routes, no consulate queue, and pre-approval before you commit a single euro. Here is how it actually works.
A British couple bought an abandoned Italian hamlet for €80,000 and ran out of money ten months in. Here is what the one euro house headlines leave out, and what international buyers should actually plan for.
