By Carson McGrath

Cassandra Lena Santoro, the founder and CEO of Travel Italian Style, believes that traveling to Italy can change a person's life. It certainly changed hers. There is something about this country, the topic of more travel books than any other nation, that gets inside your blood.

As a Sicilian American, Santoro said she grew up with Italian family dinner every Sunday, assuming "Italian life is normal." When her father passed away from cancer, she decided to take the chance to visit a country where she could learn about her family's heritage.

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Source: http://www.gonomad.com/