Castellammare del Golfo: Dreamy Italian Summer Destination (Summer 2025)

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of Dream of Italy. Find the main article here. Sicily is inundated with cinematic seaside towns. Castellammare del Golfo, jutting out into the Mediterranean some 35 miles west of Palermo, is but one gem among dozens with ease of travel and less crowds (maybe). “Castellammare and the nearby frazione of Scopello offer travelers …

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Seas the Calm: Eight Dreamy Italian Summer Destinations (Summer 2025)

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2025 issue of Dream of Italy. Summer in Italy: Allora, a sun-kissed dream where every meal is a memory and every view postcard perfect. There’s little to kill that vibe—except overtouristed destinations that have traded their authenticity for restaurants touting overpriced spaghetti alle vongole and watered-down Aperol Spritzes, shops hawking useless tourist kitsch …

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Grape Travels: Five Lesser-Known Italian Wines (Spring 2025)

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of Dream of Italy. With over 600 grape varieties, Italy is the world’s largest producer of wine. The peninsula’s earliest evidence of wine dates to around 1000 A.D. when the Etruscans and Greeks began cultivating vineyards. The Greeks, in particular, influenced wine culture in Italy by bringing their winemaking techniques and spreading their …

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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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What’s New in Italy in 2024: Tourist Trains (December 2023/January 2024)

This article originally appeared in the December 2023/January 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Read about what else is new in 2024 here! The luxury train travel of yesteryear returns full steam ahead in 2024 and the journey is just as special as the destination. The Orient Express’ La Dolce Vita (www.orient-express.com), is an ode to the glamor of 1960s Italy. …

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Sabbatical Spotlight: The Henzes Adventure Around the Italian Boot (October/November 2022)

This article originally appeared in the October/November 2022 issue of Dream of Italy. “If you come to a new country with an unreserved curiosity, things happen that you simply cannot plan and that make the experience even more worthwhile and rewarding,” Gregor Henze shares.  Gregor and Martha Henze of Boulder, CO found themselves enthralled by episodes of Dream of Italy while …

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The Small But Essential Pleasures of Italy (October/November 2021)

This article originally appeared in the October/November 2021 issue of Dream of Italy.  For me, dreaming of Italy—which is all I have done since my last visit there in October 2019—might not be what you would expect. Yes, there is the sublime cuisine and superb wine, but I write Italian cookbooks and can make dishes at home that remind me of la …

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Seven Ways to Photograph Italy Like A Pro (October/November 2020)

This article originally appeared in the October/November 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. Anyone who has been to Italy knows how visually seductive it is. If you’re carrying a camera (and with every mobile phone equipped with a high-quality camera, who isn’t?) Italy becomes even more alluring, compelling you to make photographs of nearly everything you see. But why is it …

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Share Your Dream: The Layers of Sicily and Eggplant Parmigiana (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of Sicily and all the many ways they eat eggplant. That beautiful, shiny, dark purple vegetable is everywhere. You eat it hot and cold…in pasta and in salads…in caponata and, of course, in eggplant parmesan (parmigiana di melanzane). They say in Sicily that parmesan has nothing …

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Share Your Dream: A Friendship That Has Endured (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 the places I’ve been with my Italian friend, Liliana who lives in Milan, and the places in Italy we have yet to see together. Liliana and I were matched up, by happenstance, as pen pals in 1977. I was taking …

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