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It’s the city of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, but it wasn’t quite love at first sight on my initial visit to Verona. In fact, my abiding memory was of a long queue to see Juliet’s balcony and a sense of disappointment when we finally reached the courtyard and found it a little underwhelming. How wrong I was. A return visit – with more time an...

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"How much corvina did you use?” asks Giacomo Bretzel. The photographer is my Valpolicella travel companion, and we’re currently in the Pasqua cellars about to complete the final phase of the winemaker’s new tasting experience. In the aging room sits a table topped with various tools of the trade: two “wine thieves” (pipettes used to draw small amou...

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If you’ve been to Venice, you may or may not have noticed two columns on the Doge Palace’s loggiato looking a different color from all others (if you haven’t been, take note for when you visit!).  They are centrally located along the loggiato (exterior gallery), facing the Piazzetta, right in front of the Biblioteca Marciana; and they are pink, mad...

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Set in Fonzaso, Italy between two wars, Under the Light of the Italian Moon tells the story of Nina Argenta, the daughter of the town’s strong-willed midwife. Nina seeks to define her own destiny but when her brother emigrates to America, she promises her mother to never leave. When she falls for childhood friend, Pietro Pante, during his brief vis...

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Italy delivered the first shocking confirmation of locally transmitted coronavirus infections outside of Asia a year ago Sunday, with back-to-back revelations of cases nearly 100 miles apart in the country's north. First, a 38-year-old man in Codogno, an industrial town in the Lombardy region, tested positive for COVID-19, sending panicked resident...

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The palio is a form of entertainment dating back to medieval times. Even today, competitions between the districts are celebrated in the folkloristic festivals of the towns of Italy. In addition to the Palio di Siena, the most famous, in our peninsula we find various events that bring us back to the traditional challenges of the past. In Italy the...

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While traveling across the pond remains, at least for the moment, still a dream, dreaming and planning aren’t forbidden and, certainly, they aren’t dangerous. On the contrary, busying our minds with something pleasant and oriented towards a virus-free future, may be a healthy and   relaxing way to spend some time.  For many Italophiles, moving to t...

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“Prosecco time!” is the new "let’s get a coffee!” A friendly meet-up and the promise of a get-together that’s non-committal, fun, and bubbly— just like the wine. But not all Prosecco is created equal. To discover the differences, we packed up a wine-colored vintage coupé and set off for the historic wine production zone shared between the towns Con...

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It wasn’t the food that made the meal unforgettable but rather the attendees. The first Italian G7 took place from June 22 - 23, 1980, on the island of San Giorgio in Venice. Italian Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga was the host and his dinner guests included Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Jimmy Carter, President of the Un...

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Probably the first thing people think about when Valentine's Day is mentioned is a loving couple, and Italy has the most famous couple of all, Romeo and Juliet. The city of the 'star crossed lovers', Verona, makes a romantic destination, but this most obvious of romantic places in Italy is actually rather disappointing. 'Juliet's house' (she never...

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