September 5, 2008 – 8:58 am
Hard to believe it’s September again! Here’s a rundown for the beginning of the fall - a marvelous time to be in Italy!
Time for Wine! One of the reasons it’s so great to travel in Italy in the fall is for all of the wine sampling to be done. Oenological Week in Montefalco, Umbria, which celebrates [...]
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Lots of summer festivals are winding up this month. Then, after Ferragosto on August 15, most Italians head for the hills…or the beach. Stay tuned for a full slate of fall events beginning next month.
Puccini Festival. This festival in Torre del Lago (near Lucca, Tuscany) is a must for opera buffs. It runs through August [...]
Gone are the days when you needed a gettone, or token, to make a phone call in Italy. In fact, Italians have been using cell phones since way before they became “necessities” for Americans.
Thanks to locked phones, roaming restrictions, and myriad other technological and corporate roadblocks, it has always been hard - and outrageously expensive [...]
While everyone awaits the as-yet-unnamed* luxury hotel from native son Francis Ford Coppola, set to open in 2009, a new hotel has opened in Basilicata. The Financial Times reports that La Locanda delle Donne Monache, a sister hotel to Positano’s Casa Angelina, is now open for business in Maratea.
Name: La Locanda delle Donne Monache
Location: Via [...]
As we noted today in an earlier post, tomorrow, July 2, will be the first of this year’s Palio races in Siena. But, that’s not all that’s happening in Italy this month. Here’s the rundown:
Music and Performance Festivals: Roma Estate 2008 continues with various music, comedy, and sports events. Throughout July, Rome will also hold the [...]
Sorry, folks - we missed Italy’s first big event of June, Republic Day on June 2. (Guess these warm summer days had us daydreaming!) But, there are still plenty of other events to catch this month. Notice, too, that from now on we’re going to differentiate our “What’s On” monthly posts with the year, even [...]
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 [...]
Here are some of the Italy travel articles you may have missed over the past few months.
New York Times
Prato, Italy: In Tuscany, the Revealing of a Forbidden Love
Bread-Making and Truffle-Hunting in Italy (Piemonte; actually a short review of two tours)
Bologna, Italy: Finding New Life in the Arts
La Dolce Vita, Both Day and Night (Readers Picks [...]
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It’s time again for the rundown of the upcoming month’s events. March is unofficially the beginning of the tourist season in Italy, as the weather warms up and Easter festivities get underway.
Photography Exhibitions for Pilgrims, Rome. Rome’s March agenda is packed, though two photography exhibits seems quite interesting. At the Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi [...]
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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 [...]
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