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The best place to watch the TV series Dream of Italy is on your local PBS station or Create TV! Currently, Season 1, Season 2 and the Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special are airing and repeating on stations across the country. [Though these are also available on demand on Amazon Prime.] Long-anticipated Season 3 is premiering NOW. The pledge …
Updated 2018. Even *I* learn something from the pages of Dream of Italy! Though many of the story ideas and articles are conceived and written by me, I also hire the best travel experts to help uncover more Italian gems. I first read about master pizzaiolo Enzo Coccia and his Naples pizza school when guest editor Barrie Kerper handed in …
The February 2013 issue of Dream of Italy – a special report on the best local tour guides in central and southern Italy – is hot off the presses. If you’re NOT a subscriber, subscribe today to instantly access the PDF version of this issue, our previous issue on best tour guides in northern Italy and nearly 100 back issues of our award-winning print newsletter. …
Updated 2018. Italo, Italy’s new high-speed train, made its inaugural run Friday. This new service is going to revolutionize travel in Italy. Imagine traveling from Rome to Naples in just an hour; possible because the train travels up to 216 miles per hour! For the next few months, service will be limited to Milan-Florence-Bologna-Rome-Naples. You can book tickets now for …
This holday season, we’ve partnered with filmmaker Steven McCurdy to give away TWO DVDs of his Italy travel documentaries with every subscription/renewal or gift subscription to the award-winning travel newsletter Dream of Italy (there’s still time to order for Christmas delivery in the U.S.!) In the documentary Postcards from Italy, McCurdy journeys through southern Italy showcasing ordinary Italians who are diligently …
Author Elizabeth Gilbert has charmed many an armchair traveler with her New York Times best-selling memoir, Eat Pray Love. Once achieving what most would call success (a celebrated career, a husband and a lovely home) Gilbert realizes that she has cultivated a life for which she is not completely suited. Gilbert decides to take a year off from her life …
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As I’ve said many times before, I love me some great luxury hotels! The major travel magazines are out with their selections of 2009’s best new hotels and I will summarize the Italy picks for you – Two Italy properties made Travel +Leisure’s It List of Best New Hotels: La Villa Hotel in Mombarruzo (Piedmont) Four Seasons Hotel in …
One Step Closer was created for those who don’t have the time, the patience or the contacts to organize their own trip to Italy. All our experiences are carefully tailored to the needs and interests of each client, be it for a family trip, an outing with friends, a honeymoon or a corporate off-site. Today many companies offer customized itineraries …
Our intrepid writer France Kidd ventured to Naples to explore their most famous Christmas tradition – the creation of presepi or Nativity scenes. This year Neapolitan craftsmen have made figures of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and other famous Americans and Europeans to fill their scenes. All of this Christmas fun can be found on one street …
