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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 24: Kathy’s ancestral hometown of Castelvetere sul Calore is devoted to its patron saint Madonna delle Grazie, so on this Christmas Eve we honor the Virgin Mary. See more on the Castelvetere episode of …
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 …
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 3: Franco Pepe is considered by many to be the world’s greatest pizza maker. Each day at his pizzeria Pepe in Grani, he makes his tender dough by hand every day, using the day’s …
Tourism to Italy hit a record high in 2023 with registered arrivals at accommodations at 134 million (with similar numbers expected in 2024) and locals and visitors alike are feeling these numbers, with streets and sites feeling more crowded, reservations harder to come by and just a general sense that certain cities and sites are overrun. Italy is the fourth …
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Did you know that there’s a 1,000-room palace in southern Italy that rivals Versailles? We travel to Caserta to visit this very special Reggia (it even made an appearance in Star Wars). The …
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 …
This article originally appeared in the August/September 2022 of Dream of Italy. This is also a featured “dream day” in Kathy McCabe’s new book, Dream Days in Italy: 30 Adventures Around the Italian Boot. There is pizza. There is Neapolitan pizza. And then there is the pizza made by Franco Pepe in his small hometown of Caiazzo in the province …
Have you been dreaming of Italy? Join me, Kathy McCabe, aboard Seven Seas Splendor® to experience Italy in all its spring glory on my Spotlight Voyage on April 29, 2024. Have you been dreaming of traveling to Italy? Come with me to Italy in 2024 and let’s go to Turkey and Greece too! Join me aboard Seven Seas Splendor® to experience Italy and these destinations …
This Editor’s Note originally appeared in the June/July 2023 issue of Dream of Italy. Members receive access to more than 195 back issues—if you’re not a member, join here. Visiting Modena for the first time in February and several times more this year has been life-changing for me. I’ve been spending time in this most charming city in Emilia-Romagna to …
So my Regent Seven Seas cruise has incredible timing as it departs from Rome’s Civitavecchia port on April 29, 2024. That means I can attend the Festa della Madonna delle Grazie in my ancestral hometown in Campania (about 2.5 hours south) the day before, April 28th. I want to invite as many of you to join me as we can accommodate. I am creating a special 3-night …
