ByMelanie Renzulli
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Welcome to the Italofile – your resource for Italy travel information.
Bear with us – we’ll be up and running soon. In the meantime, we recommend the following guides for planning your next trip to Italy:
The Unofficial Guide to Central Italy
Michelin Green Guide Tuscany
Frommer’s Italy 2006
Italy Eyewitness Travel Guide
Melanie Renzulli has been writing about Italy for more than 25 years. An Italophile is a lover of Italy, an admirer of Italian customs, traditions, and food. When I created Italofile, I wanted to build a resource—a file, if you will—where I could save, share, and write about my passion for Italy travel, art, culture, and living.
About Melanie Renzulli
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Learn more Italofile Then and Now When I started Italofile in 2006, my goal was to help promote my Italy travel guides, collect Italy travel information in “real time,” and basically keep up with the ever-changing landscape that is the Italy travel experience. To give…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Learn more It is a strange time to write about travel to Italy. The spread of the coronavirus — and the hysteria and uncertainty around it — is something I have never seen in the 20+ years that I have been writing about the country….
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Learn more It’s one thing to go to Italy and bring back photos, cheap souvenirs, and designer clothing that you could have bought at just about any department store or outlet. It’s quite another to bring back items that Italy is known for –…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Learn more Florence may feel like a fairy tale city for adults, but kids aren’t always impressed. That’s mostly because they’ve yet to study or appreciate the art, architecture, and history that have made the Tuscan town one of the world’s most favored destinations for generations….