Country Archive
A toehold in Italy for $15,000: Calabria-where everybody can afford la dolce vita
Date: 02/01/2005
Author:
Steenie Harvey
Italians call the south of their country Il Mezzogiorno, the Land of the Midday Sun. And you can't travel any farther south than the Calabria region-the toe of Italy's elegant boot. Last stop before Sicily, it's one of the country's least explored regions-and its warmest and sunniest, too.
Read OnItaly's Most Famous Butcher
Date: 01/06/2005Wild boar sausage is on most menus in Italy, and wild boar hind legs, hair and all, hang from ceilings behind meat counters.
Read OnThe Gates of Paradise
Date: 12/27/2004Brunelleschi's red-tiled Dome--the Crown of the Duomo--was erected without any supports and is a must-see in Florence.
Read OnRenaissance Christmas
Date: 12/21/2004
Come to Florence's international Christmas markets with an empty stomach and
plan to indulge.
Naples-falling for Italy's raffish old rogue
Date: 12/01/2004
Author:
Steenie Harvey
A balmy winter night. I'm drinking wine and scoffing seafood risotto outside a restaurant called Ettore on via Santa Lucia. Somebody is late hauling their laundry in-towels and teacloths flutter like ghostly banners from a washing line strung between two balconies across the street. This is a pure southern Italian cliché-right down to the honking Vespas and neighborhood minstrels. Carrying accordions and a double bass, another three are now preparing to give diners a serenade.
Read OnOur Best Italian Meal (Among Many)
Date: 11/12/2004From our home base in Rome we drove to Piemonte, in north-west Italy
Read OnBargains in the Toe of Italy's Boot
Date: 11/08/2004If you haven't been this far south into Italy's boot, you don't know what you're missing--or how cheap this country can be…
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