Italy Travel Notes

Welcome to the Italy Travel Notes! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed to get notified everytime we post a new tip for your Italy travels. Thanks for visiting and hope we inspire you to discover the beauty of Italy! Happy journeys! by Keith Barrett
One of the best […]

by Kirsten Hawkins
The regional cuisine of Italy is surely a delight to the senses. With the pasta, seafood, savory meats and cheeses, and delicious crusty breads, it is hard to stop yourself from eating until you are packed full. However, if you do not remember to save a little room, you may miss out on […]

by Katy Hyslop
Canals, gondoliers, romance, swaying buildings and mystery persons wearing painted masks. This guide will help you get behind the mask of Venice in just 48 hours.

Providing you haven’t spent the better part of the day trying to locate your accommodation you may find some time after checking in to do some exploring. […]

by Fenton Wayne
Have you ever heard someone order a macchiato or ristretto in the coffee shop queue and wondered what it was? Don’t know a doppio from a mocha? Never fear, help is at hand with our quick guide to speciality coffees below.
All speciality coffees can be made from a standard espresso machine.
Espresso - The […]

by Levi Reiss
If you are looking for a European tourist destination, consider the island of Sicily, a region of southern Italy. Depending on your interests, this beautiful area can be an ideal vacation spot. You can get classic Italian food, and wash it down with fine local wine. And parts of Sicily haven’t yet been […]

by Steve Jones
Naples of modern day shows all of the signs of it’s long history. Listening to the language and looking at the remnants of lost civilisations, the buildings and architecture, remind you of the long traditional history of this city.
Naples was originally a Greek colony founded by sailors coming from Rhodos. […]

By Michael Thomson
Beautifully historic yet so fashionably up to date, Italy has all the components of the Dolce Vita in good measure - good food, good wine and beautiful people impeccably attired in the latest fashions.

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Italy is a long country running from the mountainous north down to the sunny south kissed by the Mediterranean. […]

by Levi Reiss
Let’s start with a few statistics. Italy constantly fights with France for the title of the world’s biggest wine producer. Italy ranks number 3 in per capita wine consumption. As in many other European countries, Italians are drinking less wine, but better wine. Italy exports about 10% of its wine production to […]

by Robert Carlton
Tuscany, Italy is the place that movies are filmed and fantasies run wild. Perhaps it is the cities of Florence, Pisa, or Livorno that invoke feelings of culture, art, or arouse the senses to the smells and taste of the Chianti region. The fact is that Tuscany is home to some of the […]

by Clyde Dennis
It may come as a big surprise to you that more wine is produced in Italy than any other country in the world, but this information will come as no surprise to Italians. Wine making in Italy has been raised to the level of an art form. One that is passed down from […]