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Planning a trip to Europe? Why not make a quick stop in Rome, the Eternal City. Alitalia, the flag carrier airline of Italy, is currently offering free stopovers up to three nights long for their passengers. If you’re wondering what a stopover is, allow me to explain. It’s basically an intentionally long layover so you can actually spend some time...

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Secluded in the middle of the sestiere of San Marco, the palazzo’s crowning feature is the large interior flight of winding stairs that spirals up into the sky, named the Scala Contarini del Bovolo. “Del Bovolo” translates to “of the snail” in the Venetian dialect, referring to the spiral shape of the scala (staircase). The winding tower was so pop...

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We hear Tuscany and, of course, we think Florence, Siena, the leaning tower of Pisa, Lucca’s medieval walls. If idyllic settings and wine are your thing, then it’s all about the region of Chianti, and the towns of Montepulciano or Montalcino. Fancy a stint in the Italian wilderness, here’s Maremma. There are at least a dozens names coming to our m...

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For some reason, I like to compare cities to beautiful female figures: Turin, which I know very well, is an elegant and haughty princess with a knack for the occult. Venice is coquette, colorful and well aware of her unequalled beauty and Rome, well, Rome is the Empress: with dark-silk hair and covered in gold, she has no age and leaves us all beso...

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Completed in 1782, the hunting lodge is composed of three intersecting octagons and almost looks like a pagoda. It was built on a preexisting islet that formerly housed an old building used as a storage room for fishing equipment. The Casina, or “cottage” is connected to the mainland by a wooden pier. A small garden stands across the bridge with va...

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For several years now, travel agents have been hearing how they need to curate immersive travel experiences in order to deliver complete, unique vacations for their clients. This has led more agencies to seek out specialized tour operators like The Roman Guy, a small company known for going to the extreme in finding unique local Italian experiences...

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The discovery of 6,000-year-old wine traces in a Sicilian cave captured public attention, but for experts the find was even more exciting. Professor Davide Tanasi, who led the team that analyzed the wine, explains why it changes our understanding of ancient Sicilian culture. Monte Kronio rises 1,300 feet above the geothermally active landscape of s...

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A new alliance has been formed between Select Italy, an American boutique travel company founded in 1997 specializing in customized travel, and UVET, a global travel industry leader and innovator with almost 70 years of experience in corporate, MICE and leisure travel. With its established global presence, UVET boasts a vast network of incoming age...

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The Italian aviation market continues to provide headlines as it was announced on Monday that Sardinian-based carrier Meridiana would be rebranded as Air Italy with fleet expansion plans and a base at Milan Malpensa. The announcement confirms months of speculation that a shake-up of the operation was imminent after Qatar Airways acquired a 49 perce...

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Il 2016 è stato l’anno dei Cammini e il 2017 quello dei Borghi. Per il 2018 invece, l’Italia mette al centro la sua cultura enogastronomica. Siamo quello che mangiamo. Per questo il cibo è prima di tutto patrimonio culturale di un popolo. Perché quando si parla di Italia e del suo cibo, non si può certo escludere il patrimonio paesaggistico e artis...

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