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This week sees the third in our series of interviews with Expats in Italy and a takes us to Umbia to meet Rebecca, originally from Chicago and her Italian husband Stefano, a native of the area. Just outside Assisi they run, Brigolante Guest Apartments, three self catering holiday flats, all part of the original farmhouse …

The second in the new series of Expat Interviews takes us to Liguria to meet Megan, from Southern California and her Italian husband Luigi, a native of the Cinque Terre area. From here they run Bella Vita Italia, a “travel concierge” service, organizing Italian vacations and renting Italian properties. “At age 13, Megan made her …

Today sees the first in a new series of interviews focusing on expat life in Italy. Starting off in the Piedmont region to meet Marla, an American, and her Italian husband Fabrizio, living the dream in the Piemonte countryside, where they have created an Italian Alps Retreat. They returned to Fabrizio’s family home to bring …

The first ‘Food and Wine Interview’ of 2011 is with Guido Gobino, the chocolate magician from Turin, Piedmont. Turin has been associated with chocolate for over four hundred years. Today, Guido Gobino carries forward this long tradition with the art of a consumate magician. It was in 1946 when Commander Musso first opened a chocolate …

December’s ‘Food and Wine Interview’ is with Enrico Rivetto of the Rivetto Winery in Sinio, Piedmont. For over 100 years the Rivetto family has been making wine in the Piedmont region in northwestern Italy. Today this medium size estate occupies some 35 hectacres, 20 of which are vineyards, and faces the spectacular Serralunga d’Alba castle and the charming picturesque village of …