For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 16: The historic Rialto Market, located at the foot of the iconic Rialto Bridge, has been supplying Venice with fresh produce, seafood, and spices since the 11th century and is still as vibrant …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 15: Corradino D’Ascanio, a brilliant engineer from the town of Popoli in the region of Abruzzo, designed the iconic Vespa scooter for Piaggio in 1946, making Popoli the birthplace of the world-famous Italian …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 14: Florence tour guide Freya Middleton brings Kathy to the frescoed private chapels in the 15th-century Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence which are significant because at the time, private chapels were rarely permitted by …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 13: The Nero Lucano pig is an endangered, native black pig breed from Southern Italy’s Basilicata region, known for its adaptability, rustic nature, and rich, flavorful meat used in high-quality cured products like salumi. …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 12: Bramasole, which means to “yearn for the sun,” is the villa made famous by Frances Mayes in her book Under the Tuscan Sun. (Another villa in Cortona “played” the original in the …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 11: Born in 1858, Giacomo Puccini is one of Italy’s most famous opera composers, with operas like Tosca, La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Puccini’s birthplace and childhood home in Lucca is now a museum housing …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 10: Built by architect Luigi Vanvitelli for King Charles VII of Naples in 1751, the Reggia di Caserta (Royal Palace of Caserta) is the largest former royal palace in the world and on par …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 9: Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, a dry, medium-bodied red wine with dominant fruit flavors, is the region of Abruzzo’s most famous wine. Its Denominazione di Origine Controllata status covers all of the region’s provinces and …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 8: Visiting Palazzo Margherita in the southern Italian region of Basilicata gave Kathy not only a chance to meet director Francis Ford Coppola in his ancestral hometown but to try some of his …
For the holiday season 2025, Dream of Italy is celebrating Advent by revealing one of our favorite travel treasures for each day. See list of all days. Day 7: Three Michelin-star chef Massimo Bottura takes Kathy on a series of culinary adventures in and around Modena including a visit to Caseificio Rosola in the hills outside Modena to taste some of his …
