Get Your Season 3 Italian Food Box to Eat While You Watch!

I’ve always wanted to bring you a more interactive TV experience – and now I can – thanks to my friends at Dalla Fonte! Introducing the Dream of Italy Season 3 Tavola Box and the Dream of Italy Season 3 Tavola + Vino Box so you can taste Italy along with watching it! The items are inspired by my travels through Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Abruzzo …

Travel Chat – June 19 – Regent Seven Seas Cruise Excursions, Small Town Puglia, Train Strikes and More

We just wrapped our second Travel Talk LIVE and covered important Italy topics and answered fun vacation questions before handing out some of our best prizes yet. We kicked off the night with Kathy’s Regent Seven Seas cruise updates and all the exciting (tentative) excursions she is planning on taking from Taormina to Turkey. We also covered off the beaten …

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Rome Travel News: Pantheon Entrance Fee and Direct Pompeii Train

Changes are on the horizon for visitors coming to Rome. New entrance fee for the Pantheon One of the most visited sites in the Eternal City- the 2,000 year old Pantheon– will begin charging an entrance fee on July 1, 2023. Gennaro Sangiuliano, Italy’s Culture Minister, announced it will cost five euros to enter the building. He calls the fee …

Members-Only: Kathy Answers Your Travel Questions June 19th

I am always looking for ways to improve the Dream of Italy Membership – of course the magazine and archive of 195+ back issues is at the center of that – and I have introduced a new benefit: a chance to ask me your personal travel questions on a regular basis! My first Dream of Italy Members-Only Travel Chat Live in April (members: check out …

Vintage Italian Posters on Display in NYC’s SoHo

Exquisite design is found in only one place in Italy- everywhere. Even on billboards and in shop windows. A glamorously painted figure sipping an Illy brand coffee. A happy home-cook beaming at her dish garnished with peanuts, selling the nuts (or her infectious smile?). In the first half of the 20th century, the tone of Italian brand advertising was a …

A Fido, Esempio Di Fedeltà (April/May 2023)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2023 issue of Dream of Italy. A stray dog born in 1941 in the Tuscan municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo, left a far reaching legacy of love and loyalty. A brickmaker named Carlo Soriani found the hound mix on the side of the road one night and took him home. He named him …

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Blending Art and Wine at NostraVita (April/May 2023)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2023 issue of Dream of Italy. Wine connoisseurs are always looking for the next great discovery and this boutique winery fits the bill. NostraVita is so small they typically only accept guests by word of mouth.  While visiting Tuscany with a group of wine-savvy friends, one of them arranged a tour and tasting …

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Editor’s Note: April/May 2023 Dream of Italy Issue

This Editor’s Note originally appeared in the April/May 2023 issue of Dream of Italy. Members receive access to more than 195 back issues—if you’re not a member, join here.  Greetings from a rainy but invigorating spring here in Italy. If you’re looking for a new destination in Italy, look towards Genoa.  One of the great maritime powers of the Mediterranean, …

A Phoenix Rising (April/May 2023)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2023 issue of Dream of Italy. Check out the main article here. When a 656-foot section of Genoa’s cable-stayed Morandi bridge collapsed in tragic fashion during a raucous thunderstorm in 2018 – 43 commuters killed, 600 left without housing – an unwelcome      spotlight was shown on the city’s aged infrastructure. The far less …

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