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Five Favorites: The Amalfi Coast

Five Favorites: The Amalfi Coast

by Melanie on 07. Jul, 2010 in Amalfi Coast, Campania, Five Favorites

With its rough coastline, deep blue ocean, and color-drenched markets and hillsides – think bougainvillea, oleander, lemons, and orange blossoms – the Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana in Italian) is one of the most sought-after seaside destinations in Italy. Similar to Liguria’s Cinque Terre, the Amalfi Coast, just south of Naples, is a series of cliff-side [...]

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Five Favorites: Art in Tuscany

Five Favorites: Art in Tuscany

by Melanie on 28. Jun, 2010 in Featured Articles, Five Favorites, Tuscany

To many a traveler, Tuscany and art are synonymous. From the architecture to the numerous galleries to those gorgeous, green, and cliché hills, there’s an element of art in every corner of Tuscany. That’s why I am very excited to introduce you to guest poster Alexandra Korey, a Canadian-born Italophile with a love for Tuscan [...]

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Five Favorites: Reasons to Rent a Villa in Italy

Five Favorites: Reasons to Rent a Villa in Italy

by Melanie on 27. May, 2010 in Accommodations, Five Favorites

Have you ever wanted to rent a villa in Italy but didn’t know where to start? Or, are you having trouble being convinced of the value and/or utility of renting a villa over booking a hotel? This excellent guest post, from Linda Dini Jenkins, author of Up At the Villa: Travels With My Husband, provides [...]

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Five Favorites: Roman Obelisks

Five Favorites: Roman Obelisks

by Melanie on 04. May, 2010 in Featured Articles, Five Favorites, Rome

This week I’m resuming the guest post feature “Five Favorites” with a post that I myself have been meaning to write. Luckily, my friend Matthew Long over at the travel blog Landlopers.com stepped in to write about his five favorite obelisks in Rome. He has even provided some interesting historical notes about obelisks, stumping even [...]

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Five Favorites: Italian Words

Five Favorites: Italian Words

by Melanie on 15. Jan, 2010 in Five Favorites

Since I started “Five Favorites,” a feature to showcase the expertise and interests of guest Italophile bloggers, we’ve seen posts about Lucca, Beaches in Calabria, and Recipes from Rome. This week’s installment, about the Italian language, is from Jessica Spiegel of BootsnAll’s WhyGo Italy guide. And, it’s so appropriate that Jess would write about language [...]

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Five Favorites: Recipes from Rome

Five Favorites: Recipes from Rome

by Melanie on 18. Dec, 2009 in Destinations, Featured Articles, Five Favorites, Food and Wine, Lazio, Rome, Things To Do

Here’s another installment of Five Favorites, this time from a born-and-bred Italian. Eleonora (Lola) Baldwin writes not one, but two food blogs – one in English and the other in Italian. I’m very excited that this native Roman wanted to share with Italofile readers her five favorite typical Roman dishes. And you don’t have to [...]

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Five Favorites: Beaches in Calabria

Five Favorites: Beaches in Calabria

by Melanie on 11. Dec, 2009 in Calabria, Featured Articles, Five Favorites

It seems that I’m not the only one thinking of lazing on a beach right about now. This week, Italofile has another guest blogger, Cherrye Moore, who writes the blog My Bella Vita and runs the Il Cedro B&B with her Calabrese husband. She has chosen to write about the Five Best Beaches in Calabria. [...]

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Five Favorites: Lucca

Five Favorites: Lucca

by Melanie on 03. Dec, 2009 in Destinations, Featured Articles, Five Favorites, Tuscany

Today I am starting a brand new feature at Italofile called Five Favorites. The segment is a chance for me to invite fellow Italy bloggers and Italophiles to wax poetic about five favorite Italian things, be it characteristics of a town or region or five favorite foods, fashion designers, parks….anything Italy-related. I, too, will be [...]

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