Contributed to arttrav by my Mom, Audrey Korey, aka Staff Writer (new hire).
It has rained in Florence almost every day since we arrived before Christmas. The weather was so bad we couldn’t make many of …

At Milan’s Palazzo Reale is the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to the American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967), the famous realist painter. This show moves to Rome in February so if you cannot see …

We have a new guideline for accomodation when traveling: stay where you eat. This differs from “eat where you stay” in a clever inversion that fully excludes the dreaded hotel restaurant.
A few months ago we …

The other day I got to meet Karen Bryan, a full time online information specialist (ok, that’s “blogger”) who brings us Europe a la Carte blog and Top Travel Content Europe, an aggregator website. Europe …

OK, I admit that I’ve never been to Sardinia. We considered it last summer, but ended up closer to home, in Elba. So when Paolo from Charming Sardinia contacted me and offered a guest post, …

This winning entry from Pamela Marasco is a mouth-watering and inspiring account of travel in Tuscany. I awarded her a beautiful photo album from Abacus, an artisanal bookbinder in Florence. This is a timely article …

If you love chocolate (and who doesn’t?), don’t miss Eurochocolate 2009 in Perugia – a city in italy probably most famous for producing the Baci Perugina and for having a chocolate school.

Leonardo from Agriturismo Toscana Villa Centopino suggests visiting Montecastelli Pisano, a tiny medieval borgo and real “slow Tuscany” find (near Siena). Arttrav thanks Leonardo for allowing us to take some of the information from his …

This weekend I went to the show “Lo Stile delle Zar” – the fashion of the Tsars, on the relationship between art and fashion and between Russia and Italy from the 15th to 18th centuries. …

Friends of mine put me in touch with this talented young artist whose work is featured right now in the famous piazza dell’ampiteatro in Lucca at Cartasia 2010. Thus I had the privilege of asking …

I want to tell you about this opportunity to take a painting class in Italy with a famous painter who just happens to be my friend.
Last year I had the pleasure of having Bill Patterson, …

Certaldo is a town in Tuscany best known for two things: they grow wonderfully sweet purple onions (cipolle di Certaldo); and, of no lesser importance, Certaldo is where Giovanni Boccaccio spent the final thirteen years …