Season 3 Travel Guide: Tortellante

This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Massimo and Lara’s son, Charlie, is an expert tortellini maker and often spends his time at Tortellante, a pasta-making lab where young adults with developmental disabilities or autism get together with …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Tour Guide Francesca Soffici

This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Francesca Soffici, who works as a guide through Modenatur, showed Kathy around all the highlights of Modena, including the ancient Via Emilia and the city’s 12th-century cathedral. …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Galleria Mazzoli

This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Modena native Emilio Mazzoli has a great respect for collectors who believe in young artists and artists who look to the future. The gallerist himself is also …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Episode 3.06 Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Kathy has a deep familial connection to the Madonna delle Grazie and the region of Campania. Her grandfather left Castelvetere sul Calore a century ago but often sent funds from his new …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Borgo Diffuso di Castelvetere sul Calore

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. The Borgo di Castelvetere is a “scattered hotel” with rooms, an osteria and dining room cooking up local specialties, conference spaces and stunning 360-degree views of the Calore valley all within a …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Sanctuary of Montevergine

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Since the 12th century, this mountaintop has been held sacred by the faithful. At 4,000 feet above sea level, the sanctuary overlooks the province of Avellino in Campania and the stark white …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Moiano

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. For 500 years, the town of Moiano in Campania’s Benevento province has been the honored home and keeper of a cherished Madonna della Libera statue.  September 8 is the feast day for …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Atripalda

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. With a population of almost 11,000, the town of Atripalda in the region of Campania is Marisa Tomei’s ancestral hometown. The town is also home to the 2nd-century-B.C. ruins of the ancient …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Castelvetere sul Calore

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Kathy’s ancestral hometown, the hilltop Castelvetere sul Calore, was in a memorable Season 2 episode where Kathy explored her roots with her parents and felt a deeper connection to the town’s patron …

Season 3 Travel Guide: Alessandra Belloni in The Black Madonna Episode

This is an excerpt for Episode 6: The Black Madonna with Marisa Tomei from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Alessandra Belloni is an expert on the Black Madonna and shares her wisdom and feeling connected to her through movement and song in her book, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: Chants, …