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I Love Ortigia
February 2019 | Francesca Mignosa
There is a pearl, so rare and hidden, found in South Eastern Sicily. You hope it will never be spoiled by time and tourism, a sort of lifelong friend I must see every time I return to my home in Sicily. She never disappoints me, never lets me down,...
Le Furlane
February 2019 | Lee Laurino
Se siete stati a Venezia vi sarà capitato di vedere ai piedi di qualche gondoliere particolarmente ligio alla tradizione o appese fuori dall’entrata di caratteristici negozietti, delle pantofole/scarpe di velluto: le furlane. Queste calzature...
Travel Tips for Italy
January 2019 | Margie Longano Miklas
If you have traveled to Italy, I’m sure you are already familiar with the usual travel tips in the guidebooks such as:
1) Be aware of your surroundings.2) Don’t walk around with a map.3) Keep...
A Baroque, Cioccolata-filled Winter Escape in Modica, Sicily
January 2019 | Francesca Mignosa
Modica, la città del cioccolato, è uno dei più pittoreschi siti della provincia di Ragusa e della Sicilia in generale. Tante sono le sue bellezze architettoniche che da alcuni anni l’UNESCO l’ha inserita nella lista dei beni tutelati come...
Here Comes La Madonna!
December 2018 | Anne Robichaud
No, Madonna is not arriving in Assisi but La Madonna is – or so the children believe. As darkness creeps in on December 7 just before the vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on the 8th, the men of the Comunita Montana (Forestry Service)...
Dante's Early Illustrations Unveiled by Harvard Scholar
December 2018 | Francesca Mignosa
Francesca Mignosa, collaboratrice de La Gazzetta Italiana, ha recentemente avuto l’opportunità di intervistare Matthew Collins, accademico e docente presso la prestigiosa Harvard University per parlare della sua tesi dedicata al testo ed alle...
Napoleon on Elba
December 2018 | Myra Robinson
L’isola d’Elba è nota, in Italia e nel mondo, per le sue bellezze naturali sebbene la sua notorietà sia legata anche al nome dell’imperatore francese Napoleone Bonaparte, che vi soggiornò, regnandovi durante il periodo dell’esilio, per...
A Royal Winter Retreat in the Italian Alps
November 2018 | Francesca Mignosa
Legend has it that the railway tracks between Italy and Austria, Switzerland and France were designed even before the birth of the first trains. Innovators and engineers had already imagined that the meeting between these countries would, sooner or...
Italy Plus Tours: Not your Typical Tour Guides
November 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
There are thousands of travel agents and tour guides that specialize in trips to Italy. However, there are not many like Giovanni Catalano and MJ Parri of Italy Plus Tours. Certainly, they, like the thousands of others, guarantee their clients will...
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