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Ready to fill 2013 with Italy? We have the perfect Italia 2013 Desktop Calendar for you. You can either purchase it OR receive it FREE when you subscribe to Dream of Italy. The olive tree photo above is the featured photo for May 2013. Here photographer Mary Ann Glass explains how she captured the image: This is another 5:30 am morning …
Ready to fill 2013 with Italy? We have the perfect Italia 2013 Desktop Calendar for you. You can either purchase it OR receive it FREE when you subscribe to Dream of Italy. The above Umbria photo is the featured photo for February 2013. Here photographer Mary Ann Glass explains how she captured the image: We visited an abandoned borgo — …
After reporting the piece Own a Piece of the Dream: Fractional Ownership in Italy and detailing three fractionals in Tuscany, Le Marche and Umbria, I became a fan of the concept of fractional ownership. That said, it’s a complicated transaction, and the arrangement may not suit everyone. With that in mind, here’s a list of tips before purchasing a fractional in …
Little is known about the Estruscans, the people who dominated a large swath of Italy for centuries before eventually being absorbed by the Roman Empire. They left no written works that might have chronicled their culture and their doings, and, until recently at least, scant artifactual evidence surface. Earlier this month, a group of U.S. and Italian archeologists announced that …
A Celtic festival of music and games is hardly the sort of thing you’d expect to find in the mountains of central Italy. But the Montelago Celtic Festival, launched in 2003, routinely attracts over 20,000 exuberant and kilted Italians and Europeans for a totally unique weekend experience. Every year on the first weekend in August, the alpine plains of Colfiorito …
In the February 2012 issue of Dream of Italy, Irene Levine visits the oldest public library in Europe in the town of Cesena. In this excerpt from the current issue, Elaine Murphy looks at another of Italy’s libraries that warrants a visit: Biblioteca Sandro Penna (Perugia) This public library, located in the San Sisto district of Perugia (Umbria), was named …
Our friend film director Steven McCurdy, producer of Postcards from Italy and Bringing Home Sardinia, is offering an intensive 25-day film workshop in Italy, approximately June 20 to July 12, 2012. The hands-on cultural documentary program is entitled “Conversations of Italy” and McCurdy is accepting four applicants to join him. This is the third film workshop program McCurdy has conducted in Italy (see this …
The trip of a lifetime… Week-long photo workshops with the bestselling authors of Serenissima: Venice in Winter. Explore Umbria by chartered van and stay in a gorgeous fully restored farm villa in the shadow of Assisi. Guided excursions, personal instruction, many meals—a molto simpatico photo vacation. Maximum enrollment for each workshop is six students. May 5-12, 2012 and October …
My latest contribution for travel section of The Huffington Post is a slideshow on Christmas in Italy. Click on the photo below to start your journey through age-old holiday traditions in Rome, Milan, Turin, Alto-Aldige, Umbria, Puglia and more…. Learn more in our FREE 35-page Christmas in Italy Guide — filled with Italian Christmas and New Year’s traditions, Italy holiday travel …
These days there are so many new and innovative ways to get travel advice. Through our nine years in business, Dream of Italy has always tried to ride the wave and find new and innovative ways to present great Italy travel advice (i.e. our first iPhone/iPad app is about to launch). In January, we founded #italychat on Twitter. Every other …
