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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 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 6: Confetti, those colorful candy-coated almonds known to Americans as Jordan almonds, was created when the Pelino family opened their confetti factory in the beautiful city of Sulmona in 1783. Seven generations on, Pelino is still making …
There’s something uniquely magical about traveling by train at Christmas. Maybe it’s the slower rhythm, the way the landscape shifts outside the window, or the feeling of arriving in towns already dressed for the season. This year, several special holiday trains turn this simple pleasure into a full travel experience. These routes carry travelers toward Italian Christmas markets while passing …
Looking ahead to 2026, here are a few noteworthy events happening across Italy: The Winter Olympic Games are back in Italy for the first time in 20 years. The action is centered in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo and a handful of other venues across northern Italy from February 6 to 22, 2026. The Paralympic Games will be held in the …
This is an excerpt for Episode 2: Americans Moving to Abruzzo from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. As Americans expand their horizons for more adventurous lives and retirements abroad, we return to one of our favorite regions—Abruzzo—filled with stunning mountains and coastlines. We meet four Americans who have taken advantage of …
This is an excerpt for Episode 2: Americans Moving to Abruzzo from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Just half an hour’s drive from both the coast and the mountains, as well as within driving distance to three national parks, Pratola Peligna is ideally situated as it is just a 10-minute …
This article originally appeared in the December 2023/January 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. To cope with record-high tourist numbers, Italy has generated new and creative ways to welcome and entertain visitors. This coming year promises a renewed love and appreciation for locomotive travel, ancestry-inspired tours and a fresh Italian Capital of Culture sure to bring a new side of the …
This article originally appeared in the December 2023/January 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Read about what else is new in 2024 here! Abruzzo Trail’s MAGS Experience is a bikepacking trail that sends you on a path from the Adriatic Sea to Gran Sasso, one of Abruzzo’s boast-worthy national parks. The tour is autonomous, but you set out well-prepared with a …
Lexy Lux and her husband, Craig Sutter, retired full-time in Italy in December 2021 and bought a house in Civitella Messer Raimondo in the Chieti province of Abruzzo. Originally from Oklahoma, they now live at the base of the Maiella Mountains in Italy and about 40 minutes from the Adriatic. They were inspired by our Season 2 episode on Abruzzo …
