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TOSCANA This month we are continuing our gambol through central Italy with Tuscany. A rough triangle covering 9,000 square miles of “relentlessly undulating” (per Jancis Robinson) countryside, it’s responsible for Pisa’s lean, the Renaissance (via...
UMBRIA In 1906, the poet Giosuè Carducci became first Italian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely on the strength of 56 poems he composed between 1877 and 1889, comprising three volumes that are...
Valle D’Aosta Tiny, alpine, and semi-autonomous, the Valle d’Aosta is Italy's smallest and least populous region. A speck squeezed into the country’s northwestern corner, it is dwarfed on all sides by more imposing neighbors. Piedmont,...
Emilia-Romagna Tuscany may draw more tourists, but Emilia-Romagna, its neighbor to the north, mounts a mosaic of Italian cultural splendor everywhere you look. Stretching across north-central Italy, from the southeastern tip of Piedmont to the...
Lombardia Lombardia (aka Lombardy) crowns Italy’s central northern boundary, bordering Switzerland to the north, but its influence reigns much larger. With around 10 million inhabitants, it is by far Italy’s most populous region; Milan, the...
Puglia Which do you think came first: the boot or the Boot? In a sense, Puglia - our destination this month - might be Italy’s most influential region. Stepping out from the southeastern coast into...
