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My love affair with Sicily began years ago. Being in the travel industry for over two decades has resulted in me spending a large part of my life traveling and until this day, Sicily continues to be one of my favorite destinations. A quote that I read long ago in Catania’s Porta Garibaldi has stayed...Read More

In a letter to his parents in 1918, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “I’m up here in Stresa, a little resort on Lake Maggiore. One of the most beautiful Italian lakes.” The beauty surrounding Hemingway acted as an inspiration for his novel ‘A Farewell to Arms’, in which he fictionalized his experiences during his stay on the...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region,...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region,...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region,...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight to her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story the follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more of what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region,...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region, get in...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region, get in...Read More

What we recommend this week: A dish to try Lasagnette al Pesto, Liguria   Basil is the star ingredient of Ligurian cooking. The leaves grown near Genova are considered the most fragrant in Italy. Pestling the leaves with local pine nuts, olive oil and parmesan into a ‘Pesto’ has become a favourite way to capture...Read More

How can we understand what Rome is today, when no one has been able to understand what the city was before? Some speak of the City of the Caesars; others the Rome of the Popes. But neither really existed. Not outside the neat categorisation of historians and tour guides. Understanding Rome requires living and breathing...Read More

This is another installment of Marilena’s Travel Diaries, giving personal insight into her wonderful trips taken across the Bel Paese. If you wish to see each chapter of Marilena’s travel story then follow the link HERE. Should you instead wish to learn more about what we at Italy with Class offer in this particular region, get in...Read More

Seeking out restaurants with a view in Italy means you combine two of the bel paese‘s most sought-after offerings: exquisite food and stunning scenery. Italy’s alluring stretches of coastline offer their fair share. Not least along the littoral paradise of the Adriatic coastline and the white-sand, cerulean seashores of Sicily or Sardinia. But it’s not...Read More

The Grand Tour saw 17th century Rome as the destination for the upper-class’s cultural education. These days, there is talk of a new, contemporary, lively, and possibly short-lived revival for the Grand Tour through contemporary art in Rome. Only this time it’s for everyone. Roman art isn’t just monuments and sculptures, as people often think....Read More