Are you thinking of traveling to Italy for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays? We’ve got all of the information you need to spend Christmas in Rome, New Year’s in Venice and much more. Staying home? We’ve got Italian recipes and ways to bring Italian holiday traditions to your own celebrations.
Highlights: Visiting Italy for the Holidays
Our new, free 35-page, downloadable guide Christmas in Italy (filled with great photos too!) is a the perfect resource, whether you’re traveling to Italy for the holidays or want to bring some Italian influences to your celebrations at home. Here are some highlights from the guide: The Holidays in Rome Rome is home to the largest continuous Jewish population in …
Nero’s Banquet Hall Opens to Public
Although the Roman scholar and official, Suetonius,described Nero as “average height, his body marked with spots and malodorous, his hair light blond, his features regular rather than attractive, his eyes blue and somewhat weak, his neck over thick, his belly prominent, and his legs very slender” in his The Life of Nero, he more than acknowledged Nero’s penchant for luxury. …
Introducing the Italian Gift Incentive Program
Dream of Italy wants to be YOUR SOURCE for unique and inspiring Italian Christmas gifts – including our always-popular holiday gift subscriptions – so we’ve devised a BONUS PROGRAM to encourage you to shop with us! It applies to everything in our inventory – from a subscription for yourself to Italian Christmas cards to our latest collection of Venetian glass …
Florence’s Piazza Duomo Now Traffic-Free
Two weeks ago, over 2,000 buses, taxis, cars and scooters disappeared from Florence’s Piazza Duomo. No, it was not part of a massive, simultaneous grand theft auto, it was, merely, the law. In September, Florence mayor Matteo Renzi announced that by October 25th, the square would be completely vehicle-free and declared a pedestrian-only area. Gone are the honking taxis slowly …
Tuscan Town of Volterra Launches “New Moon” Tour
Surely by now, you’ve heard about, if not read some of (it is not just for teens and tweens) the Twilight series books by Stephanie Meyer. The second film installment of her Vampire saga – New Moon – is due to hit theaters November 20th and Tuscany plays a starring role… You see, in the story, the royal family of …
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