Village

Travel
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 01/12/2022 - 11:44
Italy’s borghi preserve that fascination of places stuck in time where life goes on as if in a different era. This rings even truer in those villages you can…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 11/24/2021 - 03:32
Get ready to discover more of Italy’s charming historic villages. The association ‘I Borghi più belli d’Italia,’ which, as the name implies, includes Italy’s…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 11/04/2021 - 04:33
November in Italy begins with the religious festivities dedicated to Saints and the Dead; the days get shorter, the temperatures colder and the fog often…
Travel
by Myra Robinson | Thu, 10/21/2021 - 00:08
If you think that the Veneto extends for miles along a featureless plain, think again. The town of Asolo is perfectly situated among the cypresses in the…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 09/22/2021 - 05:38
Fall in Italy is synonymous with vendemmia (grape harvest), so this makes it a perfect time to visit small towns and villages immersed among rolling hills and…
Travel
by Anna Lebedeva | Mon, 05/31/2021 - 06:44
Italy is filled with abandoned towns and villages. It is estimated that there are over 2,000 of them in the country, gradually crumbling and being swallowed by…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 04/15/2021 - 04:41
Classified as one of Italy’s most beautiful historic villages, Civita di Bagnoregio will be vying for Unesco World Heritage status.  The proposal came early…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 04/08/2021 - 00:00
Tropea, the seaside village on the east coast of Calabria in southern Italy famous for its spectacular cliff-side position and beautiful transparent sea, has…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/12/2021 - 03:39
Less than two hours from Rome is one of Lazio’s most beautiful villages, which looks like it’s suspended in time: Sermoneta.  It is a walled hill town, with a…
Travel
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 02/25/2021 - 07:45
It would be a shame to not explore the quaint beauty that surrounds Florence. There are many villages and hamlets set in the beautiful Tuscan landscape that…