Continuing on with the theme of romance this week… where do the Italians go on vacation? For many years the answer to that question has been Lake Como in Northern Italy. This ...

As long as we are talking hearts, flowers and romance this week, what could be more romantic than a gondola ride in Venice? One of the things I love most about Venice ...

In my continuing series of pictures of doors that I have taken on my travels is this one form the lovely Tuscan hill town of Montalcino in Italy. Montalcino is the home ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Ira Bernstein about two lesser visited cities in Italy – Turin and Bologna. Turin has the reputation as the Detroit of Italy because of its long association ...

If you don’t recognize this photo as the top of St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice then perhaps you need a longer zoom lens on your camera. The whole story of Venice deciding ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Madeline Jhawar from the Italy Beyond the Obvious blog about Sicily. Madeline was a tour guide for a number of years in Italy and says that Sicily ...

Before the Bellagio was a hotel on the strip in Las Vegas it was this lovely town on Lake Como in northern Italy. We stayed in nearby Verenna and took the ferry ...

I have always liked this picture of Piazza San Marco taken looking down on it from the campanile on the square. I loved the black and white nature of the scene offset ...

The Amateur Traveler talks to Ira Bernstein about why he continues to go back to Venice and the Veneto (the Italian state where Venice is) annually. Learn about other parts of Venice ...

The bridge of sighs is a well known Venice landmark. This is the bridge that the prisoners crossed between the palace of the Doge and the courts on the right to the ...