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Share Your Dream: Escape to the Beach in Historic Anzio (June/July 2020)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of escaping from Rome to the beach at Anzio, an hour away by train. Once part of Antium, the capital of the Volsci, an ancient tribe from pre-Roman times, it was named by the son of Olympus. The territory was then …

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Share Your Dream: A Book Lead Us to Sutri (June/July 2020)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of Sutri, a tiny town near Viterbo in Lazio, that I discovered in the book Pasquale’s Nose by Michael Rips. He wrote it in the piazza here. Sutri is an Etruscan town with rows of tombs lining the hills and a …

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What’s New in Rome: World’s First Saxophone Museum (September 2019)

This article originally appeared in the September 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. For a novel experience just west of Rome, visit the new saxophone museum this month in the small, coastal town of Maccarese near Fiumicino Airport. The Museo del Saxofono (Saxophone Museum) is the world’s first museum devoted entirely to the woodwind instrument. The museum’s highlight is a variety …

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Recipe: Zia Andreina’s Stuffed Zucchini Recipe (June/July 2019)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. This recipe is such a family favorite that over the last 50 years, my aunt’s fingers have morphed into the perfect shape to stuff the small Roman zucchini. Her index fingers are slightly twisted and curved and make for the perfect tools. As a kid, I ate …

Masterpieces of Etruscan Art (May 2019)

This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. Sarcophagus of the Spouses National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome This amazing sarcophagus, the so-called the “Sarcophagus of the Spouses” (sarcofago degli sposi) was discovered during the course of archaeological excavations in 1881 at the Banditaccia necropolis, outside of Cerveteri. The Etruscan Museum at the Villa Giulia in …

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Where to See Etruscan Art: Collections Not to Miss (May 2019)

This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. On a recent visit to the National Etruscan Museum in Rome at the height of the tourist season, my kids and I arrived at opening time and had the entire museum to ourselves for nearly an hour. What a treat! Across central Italy lie hundreds of little-visited museums …

Art and Afterlife in Etruria: Visiting Etruscan Tombs (May 2019)

This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. By the 6th century BCE, some of the richest burials in the Mediterranean world were located in central Italy. Much of our knowledge of the Etruscans comes from the incredible troves of material goods yielded from this well-established funerary culture. It’s through tomb excavations that we have the …