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Sicily from the Ennaside Out (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. “I want people to smell Sicily!” Agronomist Dario Rinaldi is mixing me a G&T with his signature gin, Ginacria, one of several showstopping craft gins he produces at his Nissoria-based Nystura Distillery in the central Sicilian province of Enna (Nystura is the ancient name of Nissoria). Rinaldi canvasses this swath of …

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Dream Day: Walk with Stone Monsters in Bomarzo (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. Silence and illusions loom in the middle of the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Wood”) of Bomarzo in the region of Lazio. In 1552, Pier Francesco “Vicino” Orsini created this labyrinth of walking paths and larger-than-life sculptures. Neptune, giant dragons, an enormous elephant and a sitting mermaid wait to greet you …

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Streaming Italian: Learning La Lingua Italiana via Netflix (June/July 2024)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. With streaming platforms making international programming available globally, Italian television programs and films arrive quickly on American small screens, particularly via Netflix. A whole new world is ready to be explored, and potentially to help your Italian language skills if you search content on your streaming apps …

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Podcast Episode #16: Italian Culinary Adventures in Modena with Rhonda Vilardo

Transcript with Show Notes Embedded: Rhonda Vilardo: Every day is a new experience. And every day is an amazing lunch and an amazing dinner. So it’s a great vacation for people who don’t want to have to worry about making all the reservations and all the plans and booking their time. You just show up when we say and …

Italo and Uber Collaborate for New Travel Service in Rome and Milan

Italo and Uber’s new joint venture will cover travelers “from the first to last mile of their trip.” On June 18, Italo announced a new collaboration with Uber that will transform travel for those traveling by train. Italo, one of the leading train companies in Italy, will offer the possibility of booking an Uber Black or Uber Van from 90 days …

Podcast Episode #15: Bringing Italy to Your Doorstep with Olivia Becker of Dalla Fonte

Transcript with show notes embedded: SAVE 20% at Dalla Fonte with code: DREAMOFITALY Olivia Becker: Actually Dalla Fonte translates to from the source, and so this is truly coming from the source. It’s coming from these small towns. It’s coming from these small producers that really honor traditional preparations. And in so many cases, they’re family recipes as it really …

Sail with Kathy McCabe on this Spotlight Voyage October 2024

Regent Seven Seas Cruises is thrilled to welcome Kathy McCabe, host of the award-winning PBS series Dream of Italy and new PBS travel series Dream of Europe, on board the Seven Seas Voyager® on a spectacular NEW Spotlight Voyage departing October 5, 2024. Set sail with Kathy from Trieste, Italy to Athens, Greece with overnight calls in every port, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of …

Sperlonga: Buried Treasure on the Tyrrhenian Coast (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. On the Lazio coast between Rome and Naples, the small beach town of Sperlonga beckons history lovers with one of the region’s best-kept secrets: the ruins of a waterfront villa and grotto constructed for Emperor Tiberius around the 1st century B.C. Villa Tiberio, adored by archaeologists and art historians …

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Dream Day in Italy: Exploring Rome’s Underground City of Water (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. On any given day the scene around the Fontana di Trevi is crowded with thousands of tourists hoping to toss three coins into its waters. Legend says one coin will have you return to Rome, two coins will have you fall in love with an Italian and three will …

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Napoli: Some Like it Hot (April/May 2024)

This article originally appeared in the April/May 2024 issue of Dream of Italy. If Napoli is anything, it’s irrefutably committed to playing up every Italian stereotype known to umanità. My first Italian experiences in the 2000s were very much northern and central Italy-oriented: Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Le Marche, Umbria. I found myself pleasantly surprised (and a little puzzled) that all of the apocalyptic …

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