When the large food venders rolled in, I knew this was going to be a big one. Lecce features events of all shapes and sizes on a weekly basis each summer, but the biggest celebration of all is the Sant’Oronzo Festival. The lights-in-main-piazzastreets are lined with elaborate, blazing light displays as well as food and [...]
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View on a Venetian Neighborhood
Posted by Keith on April 6th, 2010
In Venice, ancient city of mariners and merchants, we rented a second floor apartment facing Via Giuseppe Garibaldi. This wide avenue, once a waterway, now a canal of stone and cement, swirls with grandmothers pushing children too old to be in umbrella strollers (but in them anyway), schoolchildren, businesspeople. Here, the tolling bell of a [...]
Italy’s Civita de Bagnoregio
Posted by Keith on February 25th, 2010
Civita di Bagnoregio ranks high as one of the most unusual villages in Italy. This is the place to see when you want to step into history and a strange, almost fantasy landscape less than 100 miles from Rome. The Bagnoregio part has the charm of Renaissance architecture, cozy piazzas and a good restaurant, Hostaria [...]
Budget for your vacation: Agriturismi
Posted by Keith on February 11th, 2010
An agriturismo (the singular ends with an “o” and the plural ends with an “i”) by definition is a combination of the words “agriculture” and “tourism” in Italian and is what might be referred to as “farm holidays” or “vacation farms” in other countries. For the sake of simplicity, in this post, I’ll be referring [...]
Let’s go for a stroll. Passeggio anyone?
Posted by Keith on February 5th, 2010
One of the things I miss about Europe, particularly Italy, is the passeggio. Passeggio is merely the Italian word for stroll. But if you delve a bit deeper into the literal meaning, you’ll see that a passeggio is the act of walking and/or strolling. More definitions like to promenade or to take a walk pop [...]
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