Finding Serendipity With a Venetian Artist

In Venice for a too-quick two-day visit in late June, my husband and I struck up a conversation with an architect and artist named Adrian Tuchel. He was in Venice for a short stay also, completing some artwork for a show that is running right now. Deep into a conversation sharing our love for the city, he offered to walk …

Italy: A Painter’s Paradise

Guest blogger Pat Fiorello and the artistic attraction to Italy: Why do so many people dream of traveling to Italy? The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) ranks Italy as one of the top five most visited countries in the world. And this fascination with Italy is not new. From about the 1660s through 1840, Italy was part of a …