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Author Linda Bird Francke reveals how travelers can find the history of San Francesco while traveling through Central Italy. Read our “Insider’s Cheat Sheet to Milan.” Hotel Caesar Augustus joins Capri’s luxe line-up. Ceretto family opens Alba restaurant.

This special report gives you up-to-the-minute information on planning a trip to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. While you’re there, visit Piedmont’s Barolo/Barabaresco vineyards and travel down the white truffle trail with a man and his dog.

In this issue, you can ride aboard the Orient-Express, visit one of Venice’s best boutique hotels, celebrate shoes at Florence’s Ferragamo Museum and nosh at a Florentine grastonomia aka deli.

This issue introduces a luxury spa in Italy’s oldest town; explores an alternative to tour groups and self-guiding; provides the editor’s answers to your questions; gives you everything you need to know to navigate Rome’s airport; discovers Neapolitan pizza in Washington, D.C.; explains the historic significance of Garibaldi; plus The Dream Interview: Theresa Maggio on Sicily. (12 pages)

This issue covers the entire holiday season in Italy, including insider tips to Christmas and New Year’s in Venice; reviews a week-long cooking school program in Tuscan; tells you how and where to see the Pope; offers an overview of olive oil; plus Marlena de Blasi’s A Thousand Days in Venice and an interview with The New York Times’ Rome bureau chief. (12 pages)

This issue tells you where to get the best bargains outside of Florence; profiles a Venetian concierge that will make your next vacation; finds authentic Southern Italian food in midtown Manhattan; suggests some Roman hotel restaurants that break the stereotype of hotel cuisine; plus an account of visiting Mount Etna. (12 pages)

This issue contains our guide to summer events all over Italy; what you should know before you build a house in Italy; offers a look at Etruria during Easter and spring festivals; plus two Seattle gelaterias and a book that will help you to live, study and work in Italy. 12 pages)

Our special report on villa rentals tells you all you need to know about the experience of renting; profiles 11 different rental agencies; offers renting advice from the experts; plus a Boston pizzeria and The Dream Interview: Raeleen Mautner on Italian Living. (12 pages)

This issue takes you to Bologna, a center of culinary delights, Florence’s lesser-known museums, and a Campania daily farm; offers a selection of Italian-related summer reading; gives you the scoop on staying in an private Sicilian home; plus the Lowdown on August in Italy and Americans discover the fun of Prosecco.

This issue takes you to sea around the Mediterranean with Silversea cruises and to the streets of Philadelphia’s Ninth Street Italian Market; gives helpful advice for your search for true Parmigiano; reviews four new hotels in Rome; suggests three great casual city restaurants in Rome, Florence and Venice; plus places to avoid in Rome. (12 pages)