Category: Culture & Living

Posts about culture in Italy. Festivals, religion, etiquette, language, and more.

  • Five Favorites: My Favorite Italian Words

    What are your five favorite Italian words? In this post, an Italy-focused travel writer answers the difficult question.

  • Buon Natale

    Like many of you, I have already started my Christmas vacation. So, I thought I’d check in one last time before December 25 and share with you some of the prettiest Christmas pictures from Italy this year. I’ve done this by creating a gallery on Flickr. My Buon Natale 2009 gallery will feature up to…

  • Five Favorites: Recipes from Rome

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    Five recipes from Rome that are easy to enjoy anywhere. Eleonora Baldwin shares her favorite Roman recipes.

    Fiori di zucca - Fried zucchini blossoms
  • World’s Biggest Christmas Tree in Gubbio, Umbria

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    Rockefeller Center has nothing on this tree. The biggest Christmas tree in the world is, in fact, in Gubbio, Umbria. But this is not any tree. No, this is not a tree at all. Gubbio’s Albero di Natale is a dazzling neon feat–and Guinness Book of World Records holder–that has been lighting up the hills…

    Albero di Gubbio - World's Largest Christmas Tree