Sustainable Travel in Italy: Forging A Better Path After the Pandemic
The post-pandemic era gives us a great opportunity to change how we travel. Here are some tips for sustainable travel in Italy.
Hiking, Biking, and Walking Across Italy: How to Explore the Cammini d’Italia
Italy currently recognizes 44 official pathways known as the Cammini d’Italia. Learn about the many historic routes that you can hike, bike, and walk.
Volunteer Vacations in Italy
The final post in my New Year’s Resolutions series, which includes Health and Fitness and Learning Vacations in Italy, focuses on doing good while on vacation. Of course, Italy may not be the first place you think of when you consider volunteering your time – indeed, Haiti comes to mind – but there are a…
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Ecotourism in Cinque Terre
Protect Cinque Terre offers guests the opportunity to work with locals in landscape preservation.
The Ultimate Italian Driving Adventure
If you’re the type of traveler who likes to go it alone and doesn’t mind injecting a little technological know-how into your trip, then a GPS-driven self-guided tour may be the ticket. Information about Zephyr Self-Guided Adventures through Italy just crossed our desks over the weekend. The company offers walks, biking, and driving tours through…
From Mafia Villa to Agriturismo
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….