Generations of wanderlust in his distinguished Venetian family and a love of meeting new people keep Francesco da Mosto travelling, he tells Claire Black, so sailing the Mediterranean with a TV crew ...

Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe was a four-part BBC television series hosted by Francesco da Mosto and originally shown on BBC2 from 18 June to 2 July 2006. In the series, da Mosto drives his Alfa Romeo ...

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the architect, author and broadcaster Francesco da Mosto. With his shock of white hair, boundless energy and unmistakable accent, Francesco da Mosto is for many the ...

Lunch at the Palazzo da Mosto is such a quintessentially Venetian experience that it would seem disrespectful not to arrive by way of the Grand Canal. Stepping ashore from a water taxi close to the ...

Shakespeare may not have known it, but Othello, the ""Moor of Venice,"" may have been a dark-skinned Sicilian named Francesco da Sessa nicknamed ""il capitano Moro"" (the Moorish captain). This is ...

It's difficult to say that I would prefer to live at another time than now, but if I really have to choose I'd say back when it was the stars and the four seasons that regulated the velocity of our ...

Having toured Italy in an Alfa Romeo Spider for the BBC, Francesco Da Mosto the architect-turned-TV presenter with a voice like melted Ferrero Rocher has wangled himself a paid three-month passage ...

Michael Berkeley’s guest is the architect, author and broadcaster Francesco da Mosto. With his shock of white hair, boundless energy and unmistakable accent, Francesco da Mosto is for many of us the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Venetian architect and historian Francesco da Mosto sets out from Venice to cross the Mediterranean - following in the wake of his ancestor, the explorer Alvise da Mosto - to discover the cities and ...