In April 2017 I ran the Pyongyang City Marathon in North Korea. It was not the first time I travelled to the "Hermit Kingdom" as I already skied there in 2014, at the Masik Pass Ski Resort in the South of the country. Here's the story I wrote for Quartz about the marathon.

In December 2016, I pitched a project to the website BBC Capital on the costs of cycling versus public transport for commuting. I reported and wrote the feature, and worked with data journalist Miriam Quick on an infographic for the story.

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Ever heard of Italian version of absinthe? Called Tamango, it's made in Turin, Italy. Famous among the city's students, this drink is one of the strongest ones I have ever tried. I wrote about it for BBC Travel in 2016 (if you are browsing from the UK, you will need a proxy to read it).

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On the tiny island of Tory (off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland), I met Patsy Dan Rodgers. He's the last king of Ireland and I interviewed him for BBC Travel. Here is my story.

In August 2015, I pitched, and was assigned, my first feature for a UK publication. My piece for The Guardian includes an interview to Italian pro surfer Nicola Zanella, who is setting up a surf camp in North Korea. The piece was the lead for The Guardian's travel section that day. Click on the image to read the article.

In 2010, I began working as a journalist for the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa. I first covered local and regional news, and later also contributed to the multi-regional channels of the newspaper, focusing on mountain sports and news, and for the foreign desks, reporting from North Korea, the US and covering the 2014 Romanian presidential elections.

I also wrote about my skiing and travel experiences in North Korea for the French daily Libération and the sport magazine Desports.

Here you can find a selection of my most relevant work for La Stampa and other publications, including for Libération and the Italian-American weekly newspaper L'Italo-Americano (whom I worked for during a three-month internship in 2015 in Los Angeles).