The latest news from the experts in Italian Travel
The inner workings of the Vatican are fascinating to those of us who spend so much time in Rome. It is one of the few powerful worldwide organizations that still keeps plenty of secrets and mysteries close to the vest. This week Time Magazine profiles Pope Benedict’s “right hand man,” new Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, a native …
First the bad news: Milan-based airline Eurofly recently announced that it will discontinue its daily “MiMa” service between Milan and New York’s JFK Airport as of February 8th. All 48 seats of these Airbus 319 planes were business class, providing an easy and luxurious way to travel to Milan. (Dream of Italy Editor Kathy McCabe flew on MiMa and reviewed …
Not much time to write today, but wanted to post a link to this Washington Post story about the public shaming of Silvio Berlusconi — by his wife. THIS is why you have to love Italy!
American Airlines has announced upgrade its service between Rome and the United States to year-round beginning April 10, 2007. Previously the service had only been seasonal. During the peak summer season both routes out of Chicago and New York will be flown daily. Beginning Oct. 28, 2007, and continuing through March 31, 2008, the service will be flown four times …
1. Book ahead and I don’t just mean airfare and hotels. If there are restaurants you have your heart set on, call a few weeks ahead for reservations or at least call the first day you arrive in that city. Tickets for the most popular museums and sites – Florence’s Uffizi and the Vatican Museums in Rome – as well …
The Italian news agency ANSA reports that an Italian scholar has determined that the subject of one of the world’s most famous paintings — Mona Lisa — was buried in the Convent of St. Orsula in Florence. “I’m sure her tomb is in there,” Leonardo scholar Giuseppe Pallanti said Thursday. I’ve pored through thousands of archive pages and I’m convinced …
Travel + Leisure has a Milan fixation lately; granted they do have a correspondent based there. In the January 2007 issue, Valerie Waterhouse introduces readers to three new boutiue hotels — the affordable Vietnammonamour, the former factory, turned sleek NHow and the new 7-star (which we have mentioned here before) Town House Galleria. In the Feb. issue, Waterhouse checks out …
You should see my apartment. Wait, maybe not. There are magazines strewn about here and there (I am a true magazine junkie; I receive nearly every major travel magazine; as well as People, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Bark, Elle, Oprah, uhm, you get the idea.) With all of this magazine mayhem, I have had to come up with a …
Introducing Dream of Italy’s Collected Florence e-book! The downloadable PDF includes all of Dream of Italy’s tips, features and reviews for the city of Florence — updated in December 2006 — from over four years of back issues. All of the Web sites in the e-book’s 57 pages are hot linked for easy access to additional information on the Internet. …
Thanks to my friend Joe for letting me know that the special $299 roundtrip New York to Rome tickets on Eurofly are ON SALE NOW, not starting on Jan. 21 (as mentioned in Arthur Frommer’s column below). I just did some searching and right now there are tickets still available! You must book online at www.euroflyusa.com. Joe also correctly notes …
