All Around Italy

The Leaning Tower of Pisa seems like an obvious topic for a travel and culture blog about Italy, but if I’m being honest I have to admit that it had never been on my “Have-To” list.  I didn’t understand why …

The opportunity to be the guest of a 5-star luxury property is a rare and real treat for me. So, needless to say, when when the opportunity to stay at the Baglioni Hotel Regina in Rome presented itself last spring, …

There is no other place in Italy that can be considered, for its traditions and connection to its past, more unique than Ripe. First thing you see when approaching the little town in Le Marche region, just a few miles …

Growing up in the States, I had heard two things about the origins of Halloween: 1) that it had originated as a Pagan festival and 2) that it was the secular version of the Catholic All Hallow’s Eve. I suppose …

Lucca, just an hour west of Florence and only twenty minutes by train from Pisa, embraces you immediately with her medieval walls & tree lined paths. She draws you in the moment you pass through one of her impressive portals …

This Sunday, all throughout Italy, hundreds of villages welcome tourists and locals for the so-called Bandiera Arancione day, a great event organized by Touring Club Italiano, the main organization for travel and tourism.    How many times have you tried …

Emerging out of the depths of the Tyrrhenian Sea are mammoth rock formations. I experience a magical moment when I first see the towering “sea stacks” located at the southern end of the island of Capri. They cause me to …

There is no need to hurry up. The reassuring motto is the official greeting of the First edition of Slow Travel Fest, a three-days event in Siena, held in the charming Tuscany village of Monteriggioni, on the way of Via …

The end of summer can be sort of bittersweet and the arrival of the cooler months may not always be welcome. Yet, fall has a lot to offer, especially when traveling through Italy: October and November are two months filled …

A territorial dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia after World War II, two twin towns that are joined by a trans-border metropolitan zone, two languages, two countries, but many traditions that will forever link them: Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia) …