Country Archive
A Love Affair With Italy
Date: 02/15/2004The lakeside villages girdling Lakes Como and Maggiore are storybook affairs-- forested hills, sparkling waterfalls, and cobbled streets hidden in the hills.
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A Love Affair With Italy
Date: 02/15/2004"The lakeside villages girdling Lakes Como and Maggiore are storybook affairs--forested hills, sparkling waterfalls, and cobbled streets hidden in the hills..."
Read OnWorld's Most Romantic...Everything
Date: 02/11/2004Hotel San Pietro: the world's most romantic hotel. One of six IL recommendations for this Valentine's Day.
Read OnLa Dolce Vita
Date: 09/14/2003Italy is one of Europe's most magical and vibrant countries. Most travelers have a favorite Italian city. Urbino, perhaps (pictured), birthplace of Raphael. Not me. I adore them all.
Read OnTUSCANY'S BEST-KEPT SECRET
Date: 07/30/2003During the 10th century, Brolio Castle stood as the last Florentine outpost against "eternal rival," Siena.
Read On"THIS DIVINE BAY"
Date: 07/28/2003The Bay of Lerici at Portovenere, a colorful town on the Italian Riviera.
Read OnA LITTLE PIECE OF RUSSIA IN THE ITALIAN RIVIERA
Date: 07/13/2003The Orthodox San Remo Church in the Riviera di Ponente, built by a Russian senator almost 100 years ago.
Read OnLe Marche
Date: 02/20/2002February 21, 2002
Dear International Living Reader,
"Le Marche" means "the border area." During the early Middle Ages, it marked the edge of the Holy Roman Empire.
In modern-day Italy, Le Marche is the region to the east of Tuscany and Umbria, with a long stretch of coast along the Adriatic. Same beautiful countryside. Same Renaissance architecture. Picture-book medieval hill towns. But because few think of it...lower prices.
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