Read Gate Mag 58

The new issue of Gate Magazine is now available – the bilingual free press magazine distributed in Rome’s airports and the Duty Free shops of Milan airports – Malpensa and Linate – as well as Bergamo, Treviso, Venice, Bologna and Naples. You can also read it online at this link.

With our Italia Slow Tour column, we take you to Mozambique. The article, The Gazes of Sussundenga. A Journey to Mozambique, is written by Emanuele Pinna Massa.

This is how Patrizio introduces it: “I met Emanuele during my most recent trip to Africa, and specifically to Mozambique. He was doing his Civil Service with CEFA, the Committee for Training in Agriculture, a Bologna-based NGO for which I had gone to Africa (first to Tanzania and then to Mozambique) to act as an ‘eyewitness’, that is, to tell the story of what the cooperation projects were like and what results they were achieving.

Emanuele is (was) 27 years old, from Sardinia, and holds a degree in International Cooperation from Turin, with a thesis on agroecology and collective property. He was our guide, our companion, our cultural mediator. I was struck by his clarity and his depth. I confess that he reconciled me with a generation (his) that truly promises to take up the baton from another generation (mine) that has always tried to understand and change things. Emanuele has returned to Italy and now works in beekeeping on his island.” You can read it on page 30.

This first issue of the year opens with a question and sketches out an answer.
“Will 2026 be a good year for travel? It will be, if we learn to travel with new eyes: not to see more, but to see better.”
After all, travelers have changed, and with them travel itself, which seems to have entered a more mature phase. Travelers seek places capable of telling stories, not just showcasing scenery. In 2026, exploration is no longer a conquest but an encounter. And the possibility of encounter necessarily goes hand in hand with a different pace, a slower rhythm. Which sometimes also means slow forms of travel – on scenic trains, walking routes, and cycling itineraries.

Some of the destinations featured in this issue include Madonna di Campiglio. Wintertime Norway – the Norway of magical light and the Northern Lights. The Maldives beyond the postcard, beyond the narrative told only through crystal-clear waters and white sand. And Mauritius, a true world of its own.

But there is also fashion, with Kiton, a Neapolitan brand whose story begins in 1968. Boglioli, founded in Gambara, near Brescia, in 1973, but with an even older history. And Sunnei, a young brand born in Milan in 2015, with an aesthetic that is lucid and deeply human. Then we head to Denmark, with the brand Sitting Suits.

You’ll find a close-up portrait of artist Alfonso Caiazzo, and the story of an encounter with the Nick Maltese studio, a duo of architects capable of narrating architecture—an emotional architecture.

For digital travelers, a selection of essential apps to explore the world with ease. Beauty product recommendations and two in-depth features: one on Italy’s spa destinations waiting to be discovered, and one on mindfulness, to begin the year with presence.

News from Italian airports, and as always, a special focus on Rome, with two articles: Rome at Night, and Rome, City of Water.

If you think that’s all, you’re mistaken. There is still so much to discover in this first issue of the year of Gate Magazine.

Happy reading, and happy New Year!