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Love is in the air with Valentine’s Day just days away, so we thought we’d round up Italy’s most romantic destinations. As an Italian food and wine tour leader and guide, my attention usually goes to a city’s, well, food and wine! But there’s no denying that Italy is one of the most romantic countries in the world. With beauty all around, it’s an...

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Glitz meets the montane in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the sublime ski destination in the Dolomites. Though the exceptionally jagged limestone mountain range in northeast Italy is part of the Italian Alps, in several ways, it feels a world away. Influences from Austria, its northern neighbor, abound in the cuisine, landscapes, architecture, and culture. Cor...

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In another year, masks would be a sign of the gaiety in Venice, an accessory worn for games and parties as big crowds parade about to show off their frivolous, fanciful costumes, especially ones with decorative face coverings. The Italian canal city’s Carnival festivities should have started Saturday, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made its annual a...

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Padova is located in the Venetian plain, about an hour's drive from the wonderful Venice. It certainly has many places to visit for those who love observing the beauty that different historical eras and famous artists gave to a city to be discovered slowly, large enough to have something to offer even to the most demanding tourists, but small enoug...

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When we emerged from strict lockdown after Christmas and New Year, it was with a sense of resolve and hope that we launched ourselves into the new year. But so far, 2021 hasn’t quite delivered in the way we were all hoping. Not yet anyway.  Events around the globe continue to cause shock and alarm, and the news from home has all too often been grim...

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With winter in full swing, nothing says “warm up by the fire” like a glass of Amarone. Americans are longtime fans of this full-bodied, velvety red wine, and the U.S. is the second largest destination market, accounting for 14% of total exports.  Produced across 19 townships in the northeast province of Verona, Amarone is created from dried grapes,...

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The Consorzio di Tutela Chiaretto e Bardolino, the entity that promotes and protects Chiaretto di Bardolino wines -- a crisp, dry Italian rosé from Lake Garda, in the province of Verona -- has announced a new trade campaign with Colangelo & Partners as its agency of record in the United States. “This campaign is well timed to take advantage of the...

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In our family, we ski mainly to eat. And, judging by the hordes of people elbowing themselves into the buffet line come 1 p.m. in every “rifugio” (Alpine lodge) in the Italian Dolomites, that seems to be the case for many of those who partake in the great Italian tradition of the “settimana bianca” (“white week”, or week-long ski holiday).  Our day...

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Goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg may have invented the movable-type printing press around 1450 in Meinz, Germany to create his monumental Bibles, but Venice is where the Printing Revolution began by giving the nascent industry a major push and changing men’s lives. The Republic of Venice soon earned a reputation for being the cradle of the new technolo...

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Quale sarà la Capitale italiana della cultura 2022? A chi passerà il testimone Parma, che, causa pandemia, terrà  in mano il titolo un anno in più del previsto? La corsa è vicina al traguardo: oggi e domani si tengono le audizioni delle 10 città finaliste e lunedì dovrebbe arrivare la decisione del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per...

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