Il Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel & Spa, posizionato a picco sul mare tra Amalfi e Positano, è in continua ascesa nelle preferenze internazionali. L’hotel italiano si è distinto ancora nel mondo, vincendo a Barcellona il titolo Hotel of The Year 2020 assegnato dalla Academy of European Hotel Awards. La serata di premiazione, a cui ha partecipato il gen...

Why travel to Italy in the fall? The better question is: "Why not?" While the country's peak summer tourism season is over, insiders know that September through the fall is in fact the best time to travel to Italy. "Italy is gorgeous in September," says Fulvio De Bonis, the founder of Imago Artis Travel, a Rome-based company that sells luxury Italy...

Positano is a fishing village in the Amalfi Coast. According to legend, the village is a love gift from the Sea God Poseidon to his beloved nymph Pasitea. So it can’t be anything but beautiful and for a good reason it’s called “the pearl of the Amalfi Coast“. We all know Positano for its colorful houses climbing the hillside, the narrow winding roa...

The Amalfi Coast is what Italian summer dreams are made of. It is a region so dreamlike that many have tried to capture its beguiling beauty in literature, film and on millions of Instagram accounts around the world. However, to truly appreciate the essence of the Amalfi Coast, it must be experienced, and slowly savoured like those final moments of...

Visiting in 1953, John Steinbeck enthused: 'Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn't quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone.' Today, it is no less enchanting. Lying an hour and a quarter south of Naples, the drive to Positano takes you past Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, past Sorrento and then along t...

Positano, Italy, is a lot like the "Kingsman" and "Rocketman" star Taron Egerton. "Oh, that guy!" They're not household names (yet), but I'd wager pretty much anyone would recognize them in a photo. That's because, over the past few years, Positano has become a trendy spot for budding social-media influencers to visit. It has even welcomed celebrit...

I had the pleasure to interview Francesco Amodeo. Francesco is the Presidente of Don Ciccio & Figli and founder of Think Italian LLC. Francesco ‘Ciccio’ Amodeo began his journey in the hospitality industry as a young boy growing up in the small town of Furore, Italy, a quaint, tight-knit hamlet of just over 800 residents. With an extended family su...

One of Italy’s brightest gastronomic talents, Antonio Mermolia, is now the Magic City’s star chef. Honing his skills in Sicily, working successfully at Il Punto, Mulino a Vino, and Capatosta in New York, and studying the flavors of Le Sirenuse in Positano, Mermolia is bringing Miami locals a taste of simple Southern Italian Cuisine with unique and...

Before Positano had busloads of tourists, a Missoni store or a vaunted reputation as a must-visit destination on the global jet set circuit, there was the Cinque clan. The Cinques are one of the most storied families in Positano, having cultivated and grown the hospitality industry in this picturesque Amalfi Coast hamlet since the 1930s.The last se...