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20 Sep 2022 Amalfi Coast – The Road to Enchantment

Posted at 00:00h in Italian itineraries, Testimonials

The August crowds have left the beaches and Italian children are getting ready for school. My sister and I decide to take a road trip somewhere in Italy from our respective homes in Rome. It doesn’t take long to settle on a destination we both love – the Costiera Amalfitana – 35 miles of staggeringly beautiful coastline meandering south from Naples.

Having covered Italy as the correspondent for LIFE Magazine for two decades, I’ve been up and down the peninsula many times. Yes, the Italian Alps are celestial, Portofino is glorious, the Greek temples in Sicily awe-inspiring, but nowhere has consistently seduced me with its eloquent charm like the Amalfi Coast. Ville in Italia finds us a house perched on the cliff just above the coast road in Praiano, one town South of Positano.

15 May 2019 The Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice

Posted at 13:41h in Events, Italian itineraries

All the events at one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world Inaugurated at the end of the XVIIIth century, today the Gran Teatro La Fenice (the Phoenix) in Venice is still one...

14 Mar 2018 Gubbio, improbable and exciting

Posted at 15:24h in Events

A place that produces “an absolutely astounding effect and has something improbable and exciting about it”: the comment is by the great German writer Herman Hesse and refers to Gubbio, the medieval town in Umbria,...

19 Sep 2017 Sicily, October on the slopes of Mt. Etna

Posted at 18:21h in Events, Food and wine, Italian itineraries

There is a place in Sicily where sweetness and passion are the colors of gold, the amber shade of honey and the bright red of fire, the colors of the autumn, earth and sun.

01 Jun 2015 Four Italian Maritime Republics: Genoa, Venice, Pisa and Amalfi

Posted at 00:00h in Events

On June 7^th the unique setting of Venice will provide the backdrop for one of the most spectacular events linked to the history of the Bel Paese: the Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics, the origins of which date back to Italy’s glorious maritime tradition during the Middle Ages.