A tour of Italy’s historic coffee houses, from the 18th century botteghe del caffè overlooking St. Mark’s Square in Venice to the elegant Caffè of Milan, where Italian patriots and the great names of Classical Music all regularly stopped for a cup of “boiling black water“.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - November 5th, 2009
A journey across a fascinating landscape, walking along the ancient roads cut out of the porous rock of Pitigliano, exploring Tuscany’s ancient Etruscan burial grounds and visiting the tuff cities which still cling, miraculously, to the gradually eroding cliffs of Tuscia viterbese
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 23rd, 2009
Not late, just wonderfully slow. Vintage steam engines, classic “one hundred door” carriages, and the charm of traveling slowly by train across some of Italy’s most beautiful countryside. Quite unforgettable train journeys through Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia, and Sardinia’s Ogliastra, Gallura, Barbagia, Gennargentu .
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 4th, 2009
A journey discovering the sweeter side of Sicily and Sardinia, islands famous for their sun and sea but also for their delicious marzipan fruits, their puff pastries brimming with creamed ricotta, the crunchy honey torrone of Barbagia, and the biscuits and amarettes of Bitti, in which to savor a divine mix of sweet and bitter almonds.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - August 18th, 2009
From the crystal clear sea of Liguria’s Cinque Terre to the shimmering waters caressing the Amalfi Coast, the Island of Capri and Trieste’s Bay of Duino: the sea is our constant companion on these four, spectacularly panoramic, coastal walks.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - July 1st, 2009
