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Holidays summers in Italy: Dairy farm stay, near Potenza

20 April, 2020

If you have a passion for Italian cheese, then you could have the time of your life at the Locanda del Buon Formaggio or Good Cheese Inn in Tito, near Potenza. The owners also run a dairy farm, so you…

Ghost towns in Italy: Craco in Basilicata

19 April, 2020

After looking at the abandoned casino on Lake Como, at Consonno, here is another ghost town in Italy, Craco in Basilicata. It’s the same kind of quiet, desolated place as Pripyat in the Ukraine, or Yashima in Japan.A landslide caused…

Food and wine matching: Italian cheese and the best southern Italian wine

19 April, 2020

The world of Italian food and wine matching is vast and has many pleasures, if you have the time and the curiosity to explore. Today we look at Italian cheese “caciocavallo” and the possible Italian wine options to match.Caciocavallo is…

Tourism in Italy: the rocky town of Matera in Basilicata

24 March, 2020

The above video takes us on a tour of Matera, a city of rock in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Fabled in cinema, the “sassi” or “rocks” of Matera have become a symbol of Italy’s south. The town has…

Mona Lisa Mosaic Made of Burnt Toast in Matera

24 March, 2020

With her Mona Lisa mosaic made of burnt toast, English artist Laura Hadland aroused the interest and curiosity of the inhabitants of Matera, an old town in southern Italy famous for its beautiful cave-houses. Ms. Hadland -best known for another…