Italy Hotline Custom & Gourmet Tours

07/08/2021

'Ti's the season!🍦bittersweet chocolate, roasted almond, pistachio with coffee whipped cream😋 🇮🇹

05/08/2021

Sampietrini awaiting resting places 🇮🇹

30/05/2021

Launching May 31...getting back in the groove!

Italy is set to launch ITsART, a streaming project known as the 'Netflix of Italian Culture,' giving paid and free access to Italian art, opera and museums.

22/05/2021

Lazio on foot ~ A piedi nel Lazio 🇮🇹

17/05/2021

If you love *VENICE* and would like to support its renaissance after 15 months of covid isolation, follow this week of events: virtual tours, meetings with artisans, behind the scenes visits, cultural events and more.
And consider a visit through our superb providers on the spot as soon as you buy that ticket over! Italy is opening up for business again and we have a slate of new & unusual experiential, transformative, and sustainable itineraries to share!

For more than one year the world has been standing still and these are hard times for everybody. With our upcoming event we want to bring back people together in Venice for more than one or two days.

13/05/2021

Getting closer......

29/04/2021

First aperitivo in months! Under a tree canopy, spring rain accompaniment...a slice of Emilia-Romagna in Rome 🇮🇹

21/04/2021

Rome celebrates 2,774 years on 21 April, in the Natale di Roma birthday tradition based on the legendary founding of the Eternal City by Romulus in 753 BC.

21/04/2021

Happy Birthday, Roma/Amor!💞2,774 years young 🇮🇹

06/04/2021

Happy Birthday, Raffaello! Some of the many reasons you are beloved among painters 🎨...

06/04/2021

Once upon a time, a spaghetti alla carbonara with 13 friends on a Fall day in Tuscany 2019...Happy Carbonara Day!😋💚🤍❤

06/04/2021

A bit of fantasy for trying times...watch till the end for the most important part of the message, Food for Soul (and try an artisanal pasta when you make your own...)

Carbonara is the most famous pasta recipe in the world. But how did it all start?Rome, 1944. An Italian cook meets a young American soldier with a mission: t...

06/04/2021

Happy Carbonara Day! Enjoy the real thing by returning to Italy just as soon as it's safe for ALL!

THERE ARE MANY IMAGINATIVE LEGENDS ON THE ORIGINS OF CARBONARA AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISH’S BIRTH SEEM TO BE LOST IN A PAST THAT’S AS DISTANT AS IT IS MYSTERIOUS. IN ACTUAL FACT, IT’S POSSIBLE TO RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORY STARTING FROM THE FIRST PUBLISHED RECIPE (HINT, IT’S NOT ITALIAN!...

03/04/2021

One of those occasions when a neighbor's kindness makes the covid blues fade away...a neapolitan casatiello at our door! 🇮🇹

31/03/2021

The days are bright & beautiful!🌿🍃🌿 Out walking as much as possible before we're plunged into an Easter lockdown.🐣 🇮🇹

25/03/2021

Tanti auguri, Serenissima! 1,600 years of mystery, beauty, artistry, intrigue, resilience, and so much more...

25/03/2021

Buon Dante Dì! Happy Dante Day!

25/03/2021

And the City of Venice 1600 years old today...and is still afloat!

On March 25, 2021, the city of Venice kicks off celebrations for the 1600th anniversary since its founding.

25/03/2021

Moving toward rebirth & renewal in 2021 and into 2022...
Today marks two important celebrations in this beautiful but battered culture:
Dante Dì (Dante Day), the 700th Anniversary Commemoration of the death of D(ur)ante Alighieri
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Italy marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri - the Father of the Italian language - with hundreds of commemorative events during 2021.

25/03/2021

Spring is springing! Hoping for renewal...💚🤍❤ 🇮🇹