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An edited version of this article appeared in the November 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. Click here for all Christmas in Italy travel suggestions The holiday season is a magical time of year in Italy and a great time to experience Italian traditions new and old. Over the years at Dream of Italy, we’ve written about various ways to …
This article appeared in the November 2017 of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. FICO Eataly World, a 25-acre interactive food park in Bologna was dubbed the “Disneyland of Food” by the international press, even before opening in November of 2017. This made me a bit skeptical before I made a pre-opening media visit, but I ended up impressed. Yes, the best of Italy’s …
Winter Family Fun in Cortina d’Ampezzo The Dolomites Mountains offer some of the world’s best winter sports and fun for the whole family. Find out how one multi-generational family made their base in Cortina d’Ampezzo and found something for everyone including cross-country skiing for grandma and incredible Alpine cuisine – especially the local rifugios. Christmas in Tuscany Tuscany is magical …
A mountainside restaurant in northern Italy has become the first Italian restaurant to earn the coveted three-star Michelin rating since 2014. Named after the patron saint of hunters, St. Hubertus was founded in 1996 in the pizzeria of the Rosa Alpina Hotel and Spa. Chef Norbert Niederkofler, a native of South Tyrol, transformed it into a gourmet restaurant; it received …
Go beyond the typical tourist experience with Travel Italy the Write Way. Get local experiences in authentic Italy and tour the unexpected places. Eat and drink ridiculously well and learn about regional cuisine and viticulture. You might enjoy a cooking class, a wine tasting, a visit to an olive oil maker, a tour of a candy factory . . . even …
“When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race. I feel equally at home within its walls as the Grand duke, so hospitably sound to me the names of its mighty dead. Buonarroti and Galileo lived for us all.“ …
This article appeared in the September 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. Look for Ristoro Mucciante in the Abruzzo episode of season two of our PBS series Dream of Italy If you’re a fan of spaghetti westerns, you might recognize the location of Ristoro Mucciante, a barbecue-deli-picnic spot on Campo Imperatore in the region of Abruzzo. This is …
Update: My beautiful mother passed away on April 16, 2018. You can see her with me in the Castelvetere episode of Dream of Italy on PBS. My dream of Italy started here… Castelvetere sul Calore For my family, Castelvetere has always been a place of miracles and mystery Those are the first three lines of the upcoming Dream of Italy …
Greek, Roman, Phoenician and Arab cultures still mark the art, food and music of Southern Italy. This multi-generational small group tour is a sensory experience of ancient Italy. Explore the lost cities of Paestum and Pompeii, then see where Odysseus resisted the sirens in Naples. In Sicily, journey through the Valley of the Temples, shop in Palermo’s food markets and …
This summer’s Italian heat wave which weather forecasters appropriately nicknamed Lucifero, had Italy scorching with temperatures above 100 degrees for weeks and is now impacting the beloved wine grape harvest. The excessive heat and drought, coupled with spring frost and severe hailstorms, have caused grape farmers to start harvesting seven to 10 days earlier than in 2016, the earliest the harvest has …
