The Curious Traveler

Culture
by Georgette Jupe | Fri, 10/04/2019 - 00:51
Close your eyes and picture this. 
 Rolling hills where the color of foliage slowly turns to amber as the first signs of autumn start to awaken. Waves crashing…
Culture
by Myra Robinson | Thu, 10/03/2019 - 00:08
If Florence is your destination, it's more than likely that you will arrive at the station called Santa Maria Novella, or Firenze SMN for short. It is Florence…
Travel
by bsp-italy | Thu, 10/03/2019 - 00:00
For centuries a place devoted to silence and meditation, the Sanctuary of Madonna della Corona is built into a vertical cliff face on Mount Baldo at 774 meters…
Culture
by Anonymous (not verified) | Wed, 09/25/2019 - 11:47
By: Sophia Massarella Citrus is well known around the world, it’s used in many different cultures to flavour dishes and adorn gardens, but how many of us…
Food & Drink
by Laura Morelli | Tue, 09/10/2019 - 12:58
The brightly painted face of a medieval-knight-turned-marionette. A three-legged Medusa grimacing from the center of a ceramic plate. The wooden wheel of a…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 08/30/2019 - 05:20
In Italy, coffee is a religion with millions of worshipers. Yet, most of these devotees know nothing about the object of their devotion, despite being…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 08/15/2019 - 00:00
I’ve always associated Chianti wine with, well, Chianti, the area of Tuscany between Florence and Siena where the famous wine is produced. So, on a recent bike…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 07/31/2019 - 09:27
If the nuns of Catania’s Benedictine Convent devoted all their time to praying, the monks of the adjacent Benedictine Monastery were said to be a bit more lax…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 07/18/2019 - 00:00
Less known than Amalfi and other towns of the Amalfi Coast, Furore, a bunch of houses scattered on a mountain overlooking the sea, delights visitors with its…
Culture
by Myra Robinson | Tue, 07/09/2019 - 04:13
When you think about it, Italians must find our Anglo-Saxon style of rowing bizarre, sitting down and travelling backwards. Perhaps theirs is more logical, as…