This is an excerpt for Episode 2: Americans Moving to Abruzzo from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. This lively orchestra was featured in the Abruzzo episode of Season 2 of Dream of Italy, and they came back this season to teach Kathy, Pamela and Edna the saltarello. The group is dedicated …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Santa Maria Capua Vetere
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Like Rome, Capua was an important center of gladiator battles. Its 60,000-seat amphitheater (Anfiteatro Campano), second only in size to the Colosseum, housed the first and most prominent gladiator school—Spartacus even trained here. …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta)
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Built by architect Luigi Vanvitelli for King Charles VII of Naples in 1751, this elaborate residence is the largest former royal palace in the world and on par in lavishness with Versailles. The …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Vigna del Ventaglio
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Once believed to be extinct, the pallagrello grape was rediscovered in the 1990s and resurrected at Vigna del Ventaglio, the royal palace’s winery. Today, this tiny one-acre vineyard produces about 1,000 bottles of …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Aqueduct of Vanvitelli
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Also called the Carolino Aqueduct, this hydraulic engineering marvel built by Vanvitelli was modeled after Roman aqueducts and spans 25 miles and supplied water to Reggia di Caserta. The aqueduct is mostly underground, …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Pepe in Grani
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Food critic Jonathan Gold put Pepe in Grani, as well as its owner and chef Franco Pepe, on the map in 2014 when he declared it the world’s best pizza. Franco makes his …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Caseificio il Casolare
This is an excerpt for Episode 3: Caserta: A Palace & Pizza from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Caseificio il Casolare turns fresh buffalo milk into the buffalo mozzarella that tops Franco Pepe’s pizzas. Owner Mimmo La Vecchia and his family have been in the business for three generations. Visitors can …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Osteria Francescana
This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. This osteria may have won three Michelin stars, but the team does not rest on their (stellar) laurels. Chefs from all over the world train to leave a mark …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni
This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Named for both Pavarotti and his contemporary, friend and Modena native, soprano Mirella Freni, this theater hosts opera, dance and music performances. Though the stars have passed …
Season 3 Travel Guide: Franceschetta 58
This is an excerpt for Episode 4: Slow Food, Fast Cars and Episode 5: Massimo, Modena & Philanthropy from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Franceschetta 58 is the self-described bistro of the Francescana family. “I ❤️ Modena” is written on the window of the restaurant and the menu is testament to that, with …