Below you'll find a list of all posts from December, 2006
It is a fantastic experience to visit Rome at Christmas. If you go, try to get tickets to Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica… To request Christmas (or Easter) tickets: Contact Monsignor Roger Roensch or Sister Mary Joanna RSM at the Bishop’s Office for U.S. Visitors to the Vatican, Via dell’ Umiltá 30, 00187, Rome, Italy. Call (39) 06 690011 …
Listen up! Two weeks ago, we e-mailed out exclusive discount coupons for Dream of Italy products ONLY to those on our FREE e-mail update list. We’re getting ready to offer some additional holiday discounts — but you will only hear about them if you receive our e-mail update. We usually send one out NO MORE THAN TWO TIMES A MONTH …
The New York Times reported this weekend that filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has turned his attention to his native region of Basilicata. He purchased a 19th-century palazzo in the small town of Bernalda close to Matera, where Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ was filmed, and plans to open it this year as a 10-room hotel. At Dream of Italy, …
Updated 2018. A customer emailed me today to make sure that our St. Peter’s Christmas cards were on their way because she’s leaving for Rome next week and is going to mail them from the Vatican Post Office. What a cool idea! Even if you won’t be in Rome for Christmas, whenever you do visit Vatican City, mailing letters or …
Okay, it is not in Italy. But indulge me this little play on words and allow me to go off-topic (my other passion, besides Italy is dogs) to introduce you to this amazing Spot – a homeless smooth fox terrier I am fostering and hoping to place in a lucky home. Because the people who get Spot will be the …
A few years back, for a holiday issue of Dream of Italy, I asked Ruth Edenbaum, co-author (with Shannon Essa) of the book, Chow! Venice: Savoring the Food and Wine of La Serenissima, for tips on spending the Christmas and New Year’s holidays in Venice as she has spent a handful of holiday seasons in the city. Below are a …
"Let's go somewhere different,"
I tell Daniella Hunt, a native
North Carolinian and Rome resident
who now leads walking tours in the
Eternal City. "Well, have you been to
Villa Farnesina, this wonderful villa in
but those I have taken there are
always impressed."
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