Excerpt from a larger piece I’m working on: Ortigia is a maze of winding, narrow streets. Three story limestone buildings…
I spotted this vespa with a cracked windshield in Florence and it captivated me. I wanted to know the story. …
If you visit Turin (Torino), Italy, you’re sure to hear about their famous beverage, Bicerin. First made in the 18th…
Photo: Brent Petersen I take the cone from man behind the counter. The cone is piled with slabs of chocolate,…
Photo: Brent Petersen One of my favorite things about being in Italy in the fall and winter is the chestnut…
It’s Christmas day in Torino, Italy. Nothing is open, not even the little coffee shop where we get a shot…
Photo: Brent Petersen Less than an hour from Catania’s international airport in Sicily is one of my favorite towns in…
Vertine, Italy Tuscany is perhaps the best known region of Italy and is quite crowded with tourists. But, there are…
Photo: Brent Petersen Torino’s Piazza Castello really goes all out for Christmas. There’s a massive cone of spectacularly colored lights…
The exact dates vary, but the Arabs are known to have introduced citrus to Sicily about 1,000 years ago. The…