Ready to travel to Tuscany? Read this before

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Are you going to travel to Italy, precisely to Tuscany, for your first time? If you are not well prepared in Italian geography...maybe you'd better read this post first!

Today we have the pleasure to share with you the (hilarious) reflection of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Krista Ricchi on her blog "Alla Fiorentina" says she moved from Southern California to Florence, in Tuscany, after falling in love with an italian. And thanks to her own experience, she can now teach you what's the most important thing you need to know before visiting Tuscany...

A Halloween night in the cave: the big event at Castellana Grotte

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Halloween 2014 is coming and the big party is almost ready. But what if you join  a different kind of event this year? In a small village of Apulia, in south Italy, called Castellana Grotte, goes on stage a unique show in an incredibly realistic scenery: inside a natural cave.

But not any cave. 3,348 meters long, 122 meters deep, 330 meters above sea level. These are the numbers of the Grottoes of Castellana, one of the most amazing complexes of karst caves in Italy. And if these numbers were not enough to awaken the spirit of adventure that is necessary to delve into this impressive underground world, the 15 million visitors who have explored it since the opening to the public could be enough to whet the curiosity to discover a place that, over the decades, has managed to win travelers from all over the world.

Italia dreaming vs moving to Italy...show me the difference

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Hello Gadders readers! Are you going to travel to Italy for your first time? Or you just made your first steps in the country few days ago?

If you have you been waiting for this moment for years...stop for a moment and read this post first!

Today we have the pleasure to share with you the thoughts and tips of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Sarah Mastroianni on her blog "Not just another Dolce Vita" says she's always been in love with Italy and, indeed, at her 20's, after a master of Arts in Italian studies from the University of Toronto, she decided to move from Canada to Italy!

Sarah noticed that many people come to Italy with high hopes and wrong hopes. She's been fascinated by Italy ever since she can remember and she too had an idealized vision of it, until she finally experienced it! So, she decided to write this post...

You know you're assimilating Italian culture when...

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A typical ticket machine in a post office in Italy...