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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 19: Known as the “fratelli trifulau” to their neighbors in Costigliole d’Asti, brothers Giorgio and Natale Romagnolo are fifth-generation truffle hunters and thoroughly enjoy welcoming guests to their home (La Casa del Trifulau) for a two-hour truffle hunting …
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 18: Florence’s Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone bridge spanning the river Arno. It was the only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during World War II. The Ponte Vecchio it is noted …
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 17: When the Pugliese want to socialize or celebrate, they turn to an age-old traditional dance, the pizzica (similar to the tarantella). Kathy experienced the pizzica first-hand in the main square of the town of Squinzano and then during …
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 …
