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People, Places and Stories Encountered While Wandering Around il Bel Paese.  Roman Gardens Roman Gardens Near the...

People, Places and Stories Encountered While Wandering Around il Bel Paese. The Prosciutto Guy The Prosciutto Guy Prosecco and...

Life is made of a long sequence of moments, many of which might not be worth remembering. However, hopefully there are plenty more well worth reliving! I wish I could soon find myself walking along a country trail (fig. 1) on a sunny afternoon,...

Visiting Italy once autumn has arrived is usually a wonderful experience, as long as the weather remains cooperative. This is the time when the overwhelming masses of tourists begin to dwindle and it becomes so much easier to get around while...

As I looked back to several years of my "Vita di paese" articles written for this publication, I selected a number of images worth publishing again, all of them reflective of an unusual Italian experience, such as the Pinocchio store (fig. 1) near...

Venezia remains my favorite place in the world, and, as I was recently looking back at some of the images from a prior trip, I again marveled at its beauty even when far away from the better-known historic locations. Venezia is divided into six...

It is still rather easy, as one wanders around in the Italian countryside, to run into all kinds of animals, mostly being kept by the farmers for agricultural or commercial purposes.  I have seen and photographed several breeds of cows (figs....

You might have noticed, whenever traveling throughout Italy, the ever-common presence of venditori ambulanti. These are the people trying to sell you anything imaginable as they frequently wander tourist areas offering often counterfeit and usually...

I try to visit Leonessa (fig. 1), a one thousand-years-old village near the Umbrian mountains, any time I am back in Italy. My family has had a small apartment just outside the historic part of the town and getting back there even for a couple of...