Find your dream job in Italy

Taxation and bureaucracy are the veritable banes of doing business in Italy. But the looming UK referendum on the EU is also worrying foreign entrepreneurs. Emma Cuthbertson speaks to six businesswomen to get more insight into the challenges faced.

From an architect and dentist to a hotel owner and wedding planner, we chat to eight entrepreneurial women about the challenges, and joy, of running your own business in Italy.

When Englishman Jonathan Moody, 29, moved to Rome in September 2013 he had no clear plan. Three years later he is still in Rome – working for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Expats don't just move to Italy to grow olives or make wine. Some, like 46-year-old Matthew Peirce from the English town of Reading, have come to study the blood-feeding insects that blight our summers: mosquitoes.

Linda Martinez and Steve Brenner, an American couple, own The Beehive, a hostel and café in the heart of Rome. They talk to The Local about running a business here.

Eighty foreigners are among the 1,222 applicants seeking to run 20 of Italy's top museums, including Florence's Uffizi Gallery and Rome's Borghese Gallery, in a recruitment drive aimed at shaking up the way the country's heritage is managed.