Savvy travelers have long looked to venere.com, a hotel review and reservations website, to find accommodations on the beaten and not-so-beaten trails of Italy. With more than 26,000 hotel listings in Europe, it’s easy to find hotels from Piemonte to Puglia on the venere site. Now it may be even easier.
CNN reported yesterday that U.S.-based travel website [...]
The Touring Club Italia, a sort of AAA for Italy that puts out many quality guidebooks (especially on Italy’s lesser known regions), releases each year a dossier that rates and ranks Italy’s museums. According to Dossier Musei 2008 (PDF, in Italian) and this article from Corriere della Sera, Italy’s museums have a lot to be [...]
There are now 104 beaches in Italy that have been awarded the “blue flag” for clean water and sand. According to Italy Magazine, the Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE) found that the top beaches in Italy were in Tuscany and the Marches, each of which have 15 blue flag beaches. Liguria and Abruzzo came in [...]
On April 24, the new tomb of Padre Pio was unveiled in the Puglian city of San Giovanni Rotondo. The new tomb now features the exhumed body of Italy’s most recent homegrown saint, who died in 1968 and who was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002. According to Ian Fisher’s San Giovanni Rotondo [...]
For Americans touring Venice, one of the most famous places to visit is Harry’s Bar, a former haunt of Ernest Hemingway. Unfortunately, as the dollar has sunk (and continues to sink) against the euro, Harry’s, which has always been expensive, is out of most American tourists’ price range. So now, in light of the current economic [...]
February 28, 2008 – 7:26 am
This one comes from the U.K.’s Italy Magazine, which tells us that the Corleone villa of former Mafia boss Salvatore Riina has been turned into farmstay housing, a.k.a., an agriturismo. The Pio La Torre Cooperative, named for a martyred anti-Mafia activist, belonged to Riina before it was seized by the State after his 1993 capture. [...]
February 26, 2008 – 7:48 am
Yes, that’s a pretty drastic headline. But, Beppe Grillo - Italy’s #1 social/political commentator - seems to think so. He posted the following GreenpeaceItaly video about the Naples garbage problem on his website saying “I’m here to say sorry to you on behalf of all the Italians.” This is a huge tragedy that I hope [...]
February 18, 2008 – 5:20 am
With a set of fresh elections on the horizon in Italy, the following New Yorker article by investigative reporter Tom Mueller gets at the heart of what’s eating Italy these days. At the center of the article is Beppe Grillo, a “distinctly Italian combination of Michael Moore and Stephen Colbert: an activist and vulgarian with [...]
January 28, 2008 – 7:20 am
Though International Holocaust Remembrance Day just passed (on Jan. 27), there’s still a chance to remember those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis and Fascists (and other rogue regimes).
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, will hold a screening of the documentary La Strada di Levi on Tuesday, January 29 at 6 p.m. [...]
January 24, 2008 – 5:39 am
As I was preparing to post information about the Italy Breast Cancer Walk 2008, which will take place in September, I learned that registration for the event had closed. At any rate, what a wonderful way to see Italy and raise money for a worthy cause.
This year’s walk will be through the region of Le [...]
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