Italy is blessed with several spectacular lakes that are beloved worldwide. So many lovely destinations to choose from – which is the best? Italia! picks five favourites… Lake Maggiore Piedmont & Lombardy Peeking into Switzerland and bridging the Lombardy-Piedmont border, Lake Maggiore is one of Italy’s beloved northern lakes. Traditionally the uglier sister of Como, but […]
High in the mountains of Basilicata, the world’s highest and fastest zip wire gives fearless travellers the ride of their lives. Fleur Kinson straps on a helmet and prepares to launch… Forget lazing by the pool reading the latest blockbuster novels, or nosing round museums, strolling the seafront or relaxing at sunny cafés. Surely there’s […]
Visiting Venice at this time of year will offer you an experience quite unlike the one you would have if you were to join the throngs of tourists in mid-summer Local woman Sara Scarpa describes the atmosphere of a Venetian winter and shares with us some secrets about what Venetians will be enjoying in their […]
The pretty town of Cortina d’Ampezzo nestles in the Dolomites – a chic holiday destination for skiers, walkers, cyclists and anyone who wants to be inspired by breathtaking scenery The ‘Queen of the Dolomites’, as Cortina d’Ampezzo is sometimes known, is a place like no other. Tucked away in the mountains in the Belluno province, […]
Patricia Cleveland-Peck investigates the restoration that has transformed Palazzo Papadopoli into the Aman Canal Grande Hotel in Venice… It really all comes down to the writer Andrea di Robilant: if he hadn’t written the book A Venetian Affair, which tells the story of a doomed love between a Venetian nobleman and an English girl in […]
We have teamed up with the wonderful Karen Mills, the woman behind the blog, An American in Italy. We love reading about her adventures so we decided to share them with you. Karen has shared a bit about herself so you can really get to understand her link to Italian lifestyle and travel. I have a […]
Think Prosecco and you may think of Bellinis and Spritzers, but there is so much more to the wine than that, as its producers are keen to point out. Kevin Pilley treads the Prosecco Road in Italy’s far northeast… One for the shade,” said Francesco, handing me an ombra of fizzy San Giuseppe Superiore […]
Known as the Gateway to the Dolomites, the Luson Valley is a hiker’s paradise with a number of trails leading from here into the mountains that surround it… The Germans call it Lüsen, as do its inhabitants. Though we are well inside the modern Italian border here, some 40km northeast of Bolzano, roughly the same […]
The Three Peaks of Lavaredo – Tre Cime di Lavaredo – are perhaps the most photographed mountains in all of Italy, and certainly the country’s most famous mountainscape scene… The Three Peaks – Tre Cime – of Lavaredo are one of the most recognizable symbols of the Italian Dolomites. They stand on what is today […]
Having previously visited the Dolomites on an adventure holiday with a friend, Jon Bickley returns with his family to see how his two young teenagers would take to mountain views and ‘nothing to do’… Two years ago I was privileged to have an adventurous weekend in the Dolomite region of Alta Badia – the principal […]