3 Tips to Help You Plan Your Puglia Summer Accommodations
Planning a summer trip to Puglia? These three tips will help you avoid a hotel disaster.
Travel Planning
This category has articles on planning your trip, including packing lists, transportation, safety tips, travel etiquette, dining (restaurant reviews, dining guides), accommodations, and events & festivals.
Go For the Gold: The Gorgeous Golden Mosaics of Palermo, Monreale, & Cefalù
Sicily has some of the most gorgeous golden mosaics in the world. Here’s where to see these UNESCO World Heritage sights in Palermo, Monreale, and Cefalù.
Day Trip from Rome: The Monster-Filled Gardens of Bomarzo
Bomarzo’s Parco dei Mostri is a park filled with fantastical sculptures of animals, monsters, and other beasts. It’s an ideal day trip from Rome.
House Museums of Rome: Art-Filled Oases Minus the Crowds
The house museums and palace galleries of Rome are among the city’s best-kept secrets.
The Best Things to Eat in Palermo, Sicily
I Can’t Believe I Ate All of That On Such a Short Trip
Five Favorite Flavors From Ferrara and Modena
To ring in the New Year, my family and I rented a farmhouse for a few days on the outskirts of Ferrara. Thinking back to the trip, the timing wasn’t ideal. Ferrara was freezing and on New Year’s Eve, the fog was so thick on our drive into town to watch the fireworks over Castello…
Ancient Greek Temples and Mozzarella di Bufala in Paestum
If you tell a Roman that you are going Paestum for the weekend, invariably he or she will tell you: “Make sure you pick up some mozzarella di bufala.” Paestum and Its Greek Roots and Ruins Paestum is a sight to see without the culinary pit stop. A city known as “Poseidonia” when it was part…
A Special Harvest: Exploring Anatomical Theaters in Padua and Bologna
Much of what we know today about anatomy was first discovered and documented in Renaissance Italy.
How to Spend One Year in Italy
How do you spend one year in Italy? Here’s a month-by-month, personal account of my first year living and traveling in Italy.
Visions of Veronese Green: In Search of the Sublime Shade in Venice
Veronese Green is named after Verona-born painter Paolo Caliari, also known as Veronese. I used the color to guide me on my travels in Venice.
Exploring the Ghetto: A Tour of Rome’s Jewish Quarter [Review]
Learn more about the ancient and contemporary history of the Jewish people in Rome with a tour through the ex-Ghetto.
6 Places to Stay on a Roman Holiday: Great Boutique Hotels in the Eternal City
Rome boutique hotels—here are six exceptional places to stay on your Roman holiday.
Veneto Spa Hotel Has the World’s Deepest Thermal Pool
About half an hour by train from Venice and even closer to Padua is Hotel Millepini Terme, a spa hotel that has the Guinness World Record for the world’s deepest thermal pool. The Y-40 The Deep Joy is 137-feet deep (40 meters) at its deepest, with four underwater grottos along the way. There’s a viewing tunnel at…
The 7 Hills of Rome: What Are They and What Can You See?
Rome is a city of many hills. But the seven hills of Rome are the original hills on which the ancient city was founded.
Seven Longobard Sites Newest Additions to UNESCO Heritage List
In 2011, UNESCO inscribed Italy’s newest World Heritage sites: The Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.). Treated as one entity, these seven sites stretch from as far north as Castelseprio, Lombardy to as far south as Benevento in Campania. All seven of these sites represent, according to UNESCO, “the high achievement of…
Scenic Drive on the Amalfi Coast
Italy is full of scenic drives. There are the honey-colored sunsets of Tuscany, sepia-toned ruins of Ostia, and the snow-capped cityscapes of Torino. But if you want a ride with the bluest of blues then the only place to find yourself is along Campania’s La Costiera Amalfitana, The Amalfi Coast. This coastal road links Sorrento…
5 Reasons to Rent a Villa in Italy
Five great reasons how renting a villa in Italy can work with your travel lifestyle and budget.
Beautiful Places in Italy for a Photo Op
Just about every spot in Italy is a lovely place to take a photograph. But there are some spots that are truly special, places that make friends and family go “Wow!” Here are a few of them.