Spoleto, Italy News

No, it's not Philly, Boston or Baltimo'. It's right here in Charleston and - can you believe it? - it's the 36th Spoleto Festival USA.

With hundreds of events to choose from over the span of 19 days, there's a unique Spoleto experience just waiting for everyone out there.

From comic book art to Shakespeare and Japanese opera, the new season of the Spoleto Festival USA will be the largest ever, offering 160 performances during the 17 days the festival lights up stages across this seaside city.

In our Summer Travel issue, which hit newsstands on Sunday, Elaine Sciolino talks to Carla Fendi, who aims to revive the faded glories of the once majestic Spoleto Festival in Italy.

With her impeccable eye and philanthropic largess, Carla Fendi is aiming to revive the faded glories of the once majestic Spoleto Festival.

The landlocked region of Umbria is quintessentially, almost primally Italian, says food writer Tom Gilbert.

Freedom Room is seen as a viable modular low-cost living space, suitable for implementation in hotels, student facilities, and hostels Located within Spoleto's high security prison is an inmate carpentry workshop which produces furniture for other prisons throughout Italy.