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Italy Roundtable – an invitation accepted

By arttrav on May 2, 2012 with 4 Comments

A year ago I received an email from Jessica Spiegel of Why Go Italy in which she invited me to

An invite to bloggers: a “gift” from the Italy Blogging Roundtable

By arttrav on Dec 1, 2011 with 0 Comments

Many of you will know that, since May 2011, five of us have been writing a monthly post on a

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Minestrone: my winter comfort food (Italy blogging roundtable)

By arttrav on Nov 9, 2011 with 6 Comments

I can’t remember what my comfort food was before I moved to Italy, but I think the main characteristics of

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On Writing (about Italy) & the blogger roundtable

By arttrav on May 4, 2011 with 20 Comments

This is a kind of personal post. And it’s so rare and out of character that there is not even

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Putting on a good face: Renaissance facades in Florence

By arttrav on Jul 7, 2014 with 6 Comments

The word façade means both the “principal front of a building” or “a deceptive outward appearance”. In the Renaissance, architects