Dream Day: Get Lost in a Labyrinth (August/September 2024)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Hidden in the province of Parma, the Labirinto della Masone is a place to get lost. And then found. The art collector and designer Franco Maria Ricci created the park consisting of a museum, a publishing house, exhibition places and halls for parties, surrounded by bamboo mazes. …

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“Dream” Job: The Trials and Tribulations of a Guidebook Author (August/September 2024)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. As I zip up the A22 motorway towards Bolzano, I can’t shake the sinking feeling I have about my choice of accommodation. You see, when you book as many hotels, Airbnbs and privately managed apartments as someone who writes travel guidebooks for a living, your sixth sense …

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Sicily from the Ennaside Out (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. “I want people to smell Sicily!” Agronomist Dario Rinaldi is mixing me a  G&T with his signature gin, Ginacria, one of several showstopping craft gins he produces at his Nissoria-based Nystura Distillery in the central Sicilian province of Enna (Nystura is the ancient name of Nissoria). Rinaldi canvasses this swath of …

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Dream Day: Walk with Stone Monsters in Bomarzo (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Silence and illusions loom in the middle of the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Wood”) of Bomarzo in the region of Lazio. In 1552, Pier Francesco “Vicino” Orsini created this labyrinth of walking paths and larger-than-life sculptures. Neptune, giant dragons, an enormous elephant and a sitting mermaid wait to greet you …

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Streaming Italian: Learning La Lingua Italiana via Netflix (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. With streaming platforms making international programming available globally, Italian television programs and films arrive quickly on American small screens, particularly via Netflix. A whole new world is ready to be explored, and potentially to help your Italian language skills if you search content on your streaming apps …

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Sperlonga: Buried Treasure on the Tyrrhenian Coast (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. On the Lazio coast between Rome and Naples, the small beach town of Sperlonga beckons history lovers with one of the region’s best-kept secrets: the ruins of a waterfront villa and grotto constructed for Emperor Tiberius around the 1st century B.C. Villa Tiberio, adored by archaeologists and art historians …

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Dream Day in Italy: Exploring Rome’s Underground City of Water (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. On any given day the scene around the Fontana di Trevi is crowded with thousands of tourists hoping to toss three coins into its waters. Legend says one coin will have you return to Rome, two coins will have you fall in love with an Italian and three will …

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Napoli: Some Like it Hot (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. If Napoli is anything, it’s irrefutably committed to playing up every Italian stereotype known to umanità. My first Italian experiences in the 2000s were very much northern and central Italy-oriented: Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Le Marche, Umbria. I found myself pleasantly surprised (and a little puzzled) that all of the apocalyptic …

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Naples’ Favorite Character: Pulcinella (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Pulcinella is a character from Naples’ Commedia dell’Arte—a sort of centuries-old popular theater known throughout Italy. He is everywhere in his home city and is recognizable by a crooked nose, humpback, white outfit with a pointed cap and black mask. He always has a potbelly which in the past, …

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The Colors of Lake Trasimeno (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. What will you notice first? The colors that surround Lake Trasimeno, from the sky down to the gentle undulation of small waves? How the light is cast above the waters or the tranquility the lake exudes? Whichever sensation captures you, you yearn for more. On an August evening, the …

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