Buongiorno Italy readers!

One dynamic region is working to promote a more sustainable tourism of the future in Italy. With help from Italia Sweet Italia, a boutique tour company dedicated to authentic cultural travel experiences, here are five reasons why you should consider making Abruzzo your 2020 vacation destination.

Protective barriers are to be set up around the Trevi Fountain in Rome to prevent tourists from sitting on one of the Italian capital’s most iconic monuments. 

The question on most people’s lips when thinking about purchasing a property in a foreign country like Italy is, do I need a lawyer or not? 

“Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art,” said legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner. Learn more about the Dolomites in our latest #duallanguage article with an audio version to follow along in Italian!

With Valentine's Day falling on a Friday this year, why not make it a romantic weekend escape to one of Italy’s picturesque villages, here are five of our favorites.  

Any parent with a connection to Italy is probably dreaming of bringing up little bilingual babies who speak Italian, understand the culture and can make gnocchi with Nonna! Interactive activities will always enable the most amount of retention but there are plenty of things you can do to achieve this and support your child’s learning on those busy school nights.

Warm up this winter with this curated selection of Italy-inspired winter recipes from appetizer to dessert in one free eBook for Italy Magazine readers! Think a creamy mushroom sauce for your pappardelle or a delicious pear crisp with whiskey caramel sauce.

Corzetti, round pasta discs, are wonderfully toothsome, with pretty indentations embossed on both sides. They are terrific with virtually any sauce, which gets deliciously trapped by the pasta’s rough surface, but are most traditionally served with an aromatic mix of fresh marjoram and pine nuts. 

For our series on ‘True Stories of Buying Property in Italy,’ we’ve interviewed Thomas Martellone, an Italian-American from Boston with a passion for genealogy (he’s worked on his family genealogy for 35 years, he told us!). Read on to learn about Tom’s story of buying property in Italy and for useful tips based on his experience.

When we start learning a language, it’s not long before we learn days of the week and months of the year. In Italian, many of the words for months are similar to those in English, let’s discuss. 

Affordable home for sale in Umbria: Located In a quiet residential area on the outskirts of the center of Passignano sul Trasimeno is this charming apartment on the ground floor only 28 kilometres from Perugia 75.000€, #PropertyOfTheWeek. 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend from Georgette, your editor, and the Italy Magazine team.