Best Time to Visit Lake Como & the Top Must-See Villages
Varenna, Lake Como Lake Como is a beautiful and peaceful location, surrounded by picturesque villages and sumptuous villas; a wonderful place to spend a relaxing and charming holiday. Also known as Lake Lario, from its Latin name Larius Lacus, Lake Como is shaped like an inverted letter “Y”, with three large branches; to the west is the town of […]
Paolo & Francesca
The story of Paolo and Francesca is more than just a legend; their tragic love story still fascinates many people and has been the subject of many compositions by poets, musicians and writers; even Dante puts them in his “Divine Comedy”. To briefly summarize their story, towards the end of 1200, Francesca da Polenta was a […]
La Puglia
By now most of you know that my favorite region of Italy is Sicily; but close in second place comes the stunning region of Puglia. With miles of blue coastline, infinite olive groves and peculiar stone “huts,” the trulli, Puglia’s promise of relax and adventure never disappoints.Let’s look at some places and activities that should […]
Best Italian Idiomatic Expressions!
If you are bilingual or have ever studied a foreign language, you probably know how many idiomatic expressions each language has that you simply cannot translate. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that some phrases exist because people would find themselves in a certain situation so often that they needed to […]
