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This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Gabriele showed Kathy around the Puccini museum and other notable spots in Lucca, lending his expertise to bring life and detail to these fascinating sites. His degree in art history and his love of Italian …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Puccini’s birthplace and childhood home in Lucca is now a museum housing artifacts including the 19th-century Steinway piano on which the composer wrote his operas, costumes, opera scores, photos and furniture from his childhood. Puccini …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Composer Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in the city of Lucca, whose well-preserved Renaissance-era defensive walls are one of its main sights. Puccini came from a musical family with deep roots in Lucca—his grandfather, …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Approximately 364 days a year, Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico lives in harmony with the wild hills that surround it. The remaining night, of course, is dedicated to a different type of harmony—a bel canto …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. The Bocelli family winery is run by Andrea Bocelli’s brother Alberto and nephew Alessio. The land has been in the Bocelli family for seven generations; the family started as sharecroppers before purchasing the property in …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Designer shops like Gucci abound in Forte dei Marmi, along with boutiques like Patrizia Pepe displaying local charm. Bocelli’s wife, Veronica, took Kathy shopping for straw baskets, a staple of every local’s beach kit. There’s …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. Set amid lush rolling hills between the towns of Pisa and Volterra, Lajatico features striking street murals everywhere you turn. Once largely owned by the Medici family, Lajatico is now known as the birthplace of …
This is an excerpt for Episode 1: Andrea Bocelli’s Tuscany from the Dream of Italy Season 3 Travel Guide. Get your own PDF copy here. The Ligurian Sea and the Apuan Alps are the backdrop for this coastal resort town in northern Tuscany, current home of Andrea Bocelli and his wife, Veronica Berti. Meaning “fort of marble,” Forte dei Marmi …
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. As Americans expand their horizons for more adventurous lives and retirements abroad, we return to one of our favorite regions—Abruzzo—filled with stunning mountains and coastlines. We meet four Americans who have taken advantage of …
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. In our book, Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and Thrive, we wrote dozens of pages on how to buy a home in and move to Italy. The book, as well as our TV special …
