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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 11h

I lived in Pietrasanta for three years and can tell you the gap between dreaming about a small Italian town and actually living in one is shorter there than anywhere else I have tried. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 16h

I lived two months in Marciaso, a borgo of 80 people in the Lunigiana mountains, and the bar was only open on weekends for hikers. Before you buy that Tuscan ruin, read this first. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 18/10/2026

After five parts on how to think about moving to Italy, here is my actual list: the port towns, the inland cities, the seaside villages, and the big cities worth considering. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 17/10/2026

I ate focaccia in three regions and got three completely different breads, same name, zero consensus, and the one that stayed with me was Genova's, where the bar brings your espresso in the wrong cup on purpose so the bread fits. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/focaccia-th…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 17/10/2026

I drove from Trieste to Palermo once, and by Sicily the highway lines were suggestions, the tunnel lights were gone, and the guardrails had vanished, but the people invited me to their table anyway. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 16/10/2026

Italy spent decades fearing drafts more than heat, and a piece I read this week ends with a woman on an air-conditioned bus reaching into her handbag for a scarf anyway. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/versace-spe…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 16/10/2026

I lived in Rome, Verona, and Florence long enough to know that the closer you are to Juliet's balcony or the Trevi Fountain, the less of Italy you actually see. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 15/10/2026

French wine is Etruscan. They shipped vines to the coast of Gaul, and that is the oldest winemaking evidence in France. You are welcome, Frenchies. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/tarq…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 15/10/2026

I've lived near cities like Pisa and Lucca for years, and if you are weighing a move to Italy, the provincial capital you pick matters far more than most guides will tell you. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 14/10/2026

Turin's fridge magnet-to-shop ratio is nearly zero, and after a week hunting for an apartment there, I think that's the most reliable sign a city is worth staying in. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-ingredi…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 14/10/2026

In a small Italian town of 5,000 to 20,000 people, close enough to a city but alive on its own terms, the gap between the dream of living in Italy and the reality of it is the shortest I have ever found. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/wher…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 13/10/2026

Viterbo's San Pellegrino quarter is the largest intact thirteenth-century district in Europe, and most people on the drive from Florence to Rome pass it without stopping. Our Tuscia guide covers the volcanic country north of the city. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 12/10/2026

I bought a 2-bedroom in Turin and discovered that the local agency on every corner isn't a coincidence: in Italy, buyers pay the agent's fee, sellers pay the agent's fee, and the agent goes home happy either way. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/buying-an-a…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 12/10/2026

The Riviera di Levante, the Ligurian coast east of Genoa, gets the full Anywhere Italy guide treatment: long, cultural, free to read, and not reduced to a ranked list. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 11/10/2026

Perugia runs escalators, elevators, and a cable-tram hybrid just to reach its own center, because the hilltop where all the universities, government, jazz, and nightlife sit is nearly 500 meters up. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/peru…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 11/10/2026

Sleep inside the walls of a hill town, stay until the buses clear out at seven, and the Tuscan mainland the postcard never quite shows is the one outside your window. My guide covers the whole interior. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 10/10/2026

After three years in Versilia and stints in Florence, Rome, and a Lunigiana mountaintop town, my honest pick for anyone moving to Tuscany permanently is Pisa in your 30s, Lucca after that. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/pick…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 10/10/2026

Spend a Saturday at the Villa Farnese in Caprarola, a palace that doubled for the Vatican on film, and you may share it with ten people total: our Tuscia guide covers the volcanic country north of Rome that most drivers pass without stopping. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 09/10/2026

An old man in Equi Terme sold us a bottle from his wine cellar, mentioned the herbs, and made sure we tasted it before we left, because for him it was a matter of pride, not a transaction. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/amar…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 09/10/2026

Read the Anywhere Italy guide to the Riviera di Levante before you go, the full Ligurian coast east of Genoa, written at length and without a shortlist in sight. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 08/10/2026

In Ronciglione, a town with no sights and no piazza worth mentioning, I watched teenagers circle like pigeons and old men quit their coffee tables at 12:30 sharp, and something shifted. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/ronc…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 08/10/2026

The Etruscans smelted so much iron at Populonia that the slag buried their own tombs, and the steel town dug it back up two thousand years later to feed a furnace. That coast is in my guide to mainland Tuscany. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 07/10/2026

I went to a butter-cookie festival in Bozzano and arrived an hour early, so we drove to a nameless old boat on Lake Massaciuccoli and ate fried anchovies marked as local catch on the menu. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 06/10/2026

Drive the Via Cassia north of Rome and you pass Etruscan cemeteries that rival the Pyramids, a palace that doubled for the Vatican on film, and a wood full of stone monsters, all nearly empty. Our Tuscia guide shows where to stop. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 05/10/2026

We sat in a window of the Villa Farnese on a July Saturday, just the two of us, because almost no one knows a pentagonal cardinal's palace turned an entire town into its own front path. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/capr…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 05/10/2026

The Riviera di Levante guide is live, the full Ligurian coast east of Genoa, written by Anywhere Italy without shortcuts or a highlights reel. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 04/10/2026

Pienza was a peasant village until a pope flattened it and rebuilt it from nothing in three years, and that pattern runs under every famous place in this guide to mainland Tuscany. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 03/10/2026

I buy unlabeled oil from a guy in the Lunigiana mountains whose friend Marco runs a farm in the Aulella River valley, and that one detail explains almost everything wrong with the olive oil on your supermarket shelf. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/how-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 03/10/2026

This is not a list of restaurants or a top-ten towns post: it is our guide to Tuscia, the volcanic country north of Rome where the Villa Farnese had ten visitors on a July Saturday and the Etruscan tombs still go mostly unwalked. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 02/10/2026

People with a unique point of view have a duty to share it in their own words, even when every number says the bot does it better. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/why-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 02/10/2026

The Anywhere Italy guide to the Riviera di Levante covers the Ligurian coast east of Genoa in full, the kind of place that gets reduced to three names when it deserves far more than that. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 01/10/2026

A 226-kilogram mortadella arrives by horse-drawn wagon in Marostica each May 1st, garlanded with flowers, then carved for the whole town until nothing remains. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/meet…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 01/10/2026

Mainland Tuscany: the postcard is real, the postcard is a set, and this guide covers every working town, valley road, and city that lost to Florence and kept the truth. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 30/09/2026

Italy has almost 8,000 separate municipalities, most with fewer than 5,000 people, and the reason they still refuse to merge comes down to eight centuries of walled hilltop thinking. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 30/09/2026

What is the country north of Rome that was a civilization before Rome existed, and why does almost nobody stop there? Our Tuscia guide starts with a window at the Villa Farnese and ends at Etruscan tombs on the coast road back to the city. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 29/09/2026

At the Monster Park in Bomarzo, a wood full of giant stone monsters built by a soldier for his dead wife, we were the only visitors. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 29/09/2026

Not a ranked list, not a highlights reel: the Anywhere Italy guide to the Riviera di Levante covers the Ligurian coast east of Genoa the way it deserves, at length and without shortcuts. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 28/09/2026

A red cat named Leone rules the castello at San Savino, the lake outside is calm enough to feel painted, and I came back to our village by the sea feeling like I had landed in a city. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/lago…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 28/09/2026

Siena lost the last war to the Medici in 1555, stopped mid-sentence, and never had the money to change again , this guide covers what that means for how you travel the whole Tuscan mainland. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 27/09/2026

Italy has more local soda brands than most countries could name, and almost all of them are bitter, small-bottled, and meant to be sipped slowly at a bar, not refilled. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 27/09/2026

Ten people in the Villa Farnese on a July Saturday, a palace that doubled for the Vatican on film, and we had it almost to ourselves: that is Tuscia, the volcanic country north of Rome that most drivers pass without stopping. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 26/09/2026

San Damiano, the crumbling church Francis carried stones for, had maybe a dozen people in it, while the streets above were loud with plastic saints at a discount. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/assi…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 26/09/2026

North of Rome, I sat in a window of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola on a July Saturday and counted maybe ten people in the whole palace. Tuscia is full of places like that. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 25/09/2026

I live in Marina di Pietrasanta, where Ferragosto turns the bike path into a gauntlet, so I stayed indoors and wrote: Lake Trasimeno, Italian sodas, a village sagra, and how Versilia became the birthplace of Italian disco. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/ferr…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 25/09/2026

Italy's hilltop towns weren't built for postcards, they were built because valleys were easy to sack, malaria filled the marshes, and for centuries nobody was strong enough to keep order across the peninsula. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 24/09/2026

At my local fountain, carbonated spring water costs five cents a liter, and if you arrive after 11am in summer, the sparkling is already gone. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/why-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 24/09/2026

For anyone who wants to spend time on the Ligurian coast east of Genoa without being handed a shortlist, the Anywhere Italy guide to the Riviera di Levante was written for you. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/guid…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 23/09/2026

In Bozzano, a village above Lake Massaciuccoli, locals have gathered every August 24th for hundreds of years to eat a simple butter cookie shaped like a breast and blessed by the Church. newsletter.anywhereitaly.com/p/the-…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 23/09/2026

The most photographed cypress road on earth was planted by an Anglo-Florentine family, which makes the eternal soul of Tuscany younger than the motor car. This guide covers what to do with that fact. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/guide-tusca…

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Anywhere Italy @newsletter.anywhereitaly.com · 22/09/2026

I walked into an Italian emergency room with a cut finger and paid nothing the first time, then €25 the second, and that gap explains the whole system better than any brochure. www.anywhereitaly.com/p/how-italian…

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