C'era 'na vùota (once upon a time), the Mediterranean's largest island was a handsome but clannish, primitive backwater known as a stronghold of the Mafia and the Catholic Church. These days...well, admittedly there's still some of that hanging on,
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In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, Italy’s third largest city, ancient queen of the Mezzogiorno, the country’s south, is a glorious contradiction. The face of Napoli is luminous, yet sports plenty of wrinkles, scars, and squalour. History, good eating
Skiing in Italy‘s fabulous Sella Ronda in the Dolomites recently, I was stunned by the low prices I found for food and drink. In cute little mountain restaurants I paid 1.10€ for coffee, 2€ for soft drinks, and 4€ for a pint (half a litre) of beer…
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Several weeks ago, I wrote about top vacation beaches in Croatia, France, and Greece . Here's the second half, covering Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey - all hugely popular with Europeans as well as vacationers from across the world. In the market
Italia Nostra, an environmental group, says that Venice may "lose its soul" as it copes with 60,000 tourists per day. Is tourism a greater threat than, say, flooding?
Read more…Compared to other iconic Italian cities such as Rome, Venice, and Florence, this country's business/fashion capital perhaps doesn't inspire quite the same attention and even ardor. But Milan, also capital of Lombardy, is still an important - and incr
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Read more…When someone recently asked what she shouldn't miss when she goes to Italy's capital for all of one weekend, I wanted to ask her – “ma sei pazza??” (Are you nuts?) You could spend every waking hour for weeks barely scratching the surface of this brea
Our painting tutor Hugh Tuckerman’s most inspiring painting spots visited in Italy this year http://bit.ly/1z3af6f. Do you know any other great locations for painting inspiration?
The food of Italy— do we really need more to lure us to this enchanting destination? Even though known as the land of culture, art, romance – we’d probably still go for the food. But did you know that instead of talking about “Italian food” it wou
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I am a meeting/event planner working on an Association's (CEO networking group) event in Rome, Italy. I was provided with the following list of DMC companies from the Rome Cavalieri Hotel and need some assistance narrowing down to 1 or 2. Anyone
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One of our Tripatini members is traveling to the above areas in early November and would greatly appreciate any advice/tips. Please reply at this link to our Ask A Travel Pro forum. Grazie!
Read more…Are you looking for outstanding Mediterranean landscape combined with coastal mountains plunging into deep waters and picturesque Italian towns? Let us tell you: the stunning Amalfi coast will offer you all of that and much, much more!
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Italy, like the rest of Europe, is a patchwork of languages, and Sardinia is a good example. Sardinians grow up speaking Italian just like their countrymen on the mainland. But before Mediterranean’s second largest island became part of Italy in 1861
By BuzzInRome
Fashion is a key element of contemporary Italian culture and is also one of the country’s major export products. And Italy’s top fashion designers have often been called on to create costumes for theater, dance and opera performanc
Read more…Anyone know the best place to stay near Catania's airport? I have an early am flight to Rome and would like to drop my car off previous afternoon then get a shuttle to town -- or some hotel nearby. Anyone have any advice? TIA. Mary
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by BuzzInRome
It took three years of extraordinary building works to reopen to the public in September the historic "Library of the Popes". 1,600,000 printed volumes, 80,000 manuscripts and 100,000 archival units, 8,400 incunabula, about 300,
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