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Enhance Your Italy Trip with a Great Tour Guide

Why your trip to Italy simply must include great local tour guides (even for a half-day here and there)...plus the four guidelines for working with a guide and how tour guides in Italy are licensed and screened.

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Travel Agents and Group Tours for the Mobility Challenged

This article originally appeared in the November 2012 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2019. Working with a travel agent is another option for the mobility challenged. Yet it may take a general travel agent or even an Italy specialist much time and effort (which may result in extra fees) to get up to speed on requirements and identifying providers. …

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A Day Out in the Salento with Yle

A longtime subscriber had been urging me to meet this local guide and tour, saying this warm and passionate Lecce native had a particular knack helping others experience undiscovered Puglia. She was right.

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From Our New Rome Travel App: Private Rome Shopping Tour

No matter what it is you are looking for -- from antiques to leather -- surely one of Rome's magnificent shops or markets has it. But the Eternal City has so many hidden treasures, where to start?

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A Guide to San Marino: The Country Within Italy

When you're ready to visit the 24-mile enclave -- actually a whole separate country within Italy -- of San Marino, here's a guide to what to do in this land of fotresses, where to stay and what to eat.

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Food Tour of the Castelli Romani

The towns of Castelli Romani are traditional places for Romans to take a Sunday drive to enjoy peaceful panoramas, the local wine and a perhaps most of all, eat some great food.

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The Details for Lucca: Hotels, Apartment Rentals, Restaurants, Private Guides

Tuscany bound? We've got you covered. Read on for our expert insight on where to stay and where to eat in Lucca, Tuscany-- as well as the contact information for two fabulous women who can show you around.

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Sicily’s Siracusa: Almost Grecian

Siracusa, once one of the great powers of the Western world, is absent from lists of most visited places in Italy. That's a shame, but it's good news for those of us who love history and prefer to avoid invading tourist hordes.

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Ravenna’s Ravishing Mosaics

After 15 centuries, Ravenna's luminous mosaics still shine with the golden brilliance of the empires that endowed them. These shimmering sacred images reveal both familiar and unexpected chapters in Italian history while affirming an artistic climate that thrives today.

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Umbria Cooking School: Learn to Cook the Umbrian Way

Ready to roll up your sleeves and go to cooking school in Umbria? We've got the perfect place and the perfect cooking teacher at an agriturismo near Assisi. Plus recommended tour guides in Assisi.

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