Tuscan Bliss, Yoga & Wellness Retreat
“Florence has the art, Pisa has the tower, but if you’re looking for the Tuscan countryside of films & glossy books, then you’re looking for the Val d’ Orcia.”
May 25, 2019 and October 12, 2019
7-nights Saturday to Saturday
A thoughtful vacation that combines your passion for Italy, yoga, a healthy lifestyle & desire to explore behind the scenes artisanal food & wine experiences. Yoga is optional, so your traveling companion can feel confident joining you, should they not want to participate.
This Business Is a Lemon, and a Family Wants to Keep It That Way
/in Amalfi, Tours /by Claudia Alfieri AMALFI, Italy — On a recent spring morning, Luigi Aceto, a hale 78, climbed a ladder in a terraced lemon grove that stretched up the hillside in one of Italy’s most picturesque towns and expertly began snipping lemons into a wicker basket. The sun was shining. The lemons were ripe and as big as […]
Puglia; Italy’s Best Kept Secret
/in Puglia, Tours /by Claudia AlfieriPOLIGNANO A MARE, Italy — Puglia has some of the brightest seas, most diverse art and architecture, most mouthwatering peasant cuisine and kindest people in all of Italy — including strangers who will go out of their way to lead you to one after another stunning beach on impossibly lapis-lazuli waters. Puglia is the heel to Italy’s […]
Tuscany Without the Crowds
/in Tours, Tuscany /by Claudia AlfieriBy DANIELLE PERGAMENT MARCH 2, 2010 IT was a cold, foggy morning in Tuscany, and La Foce, a 15th-century villa that sits on 2,000 acres of rolling fields overlooking the storied Montepulciano vineyards, was eerily quiet. I walked the stone pathways in the manicured garden. Around me, cypress trees creaked, ripe persimmons swayed soundlessly from bare branches and […]