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Eat Your Way Through Italy · Italy
Hand-rolled pasta and hills of vines
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Hand-rolled pasta and hills of vines
Eat Your Way Through Italy · Italy
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Find things to do in Italy Talk to a specialistWhy you’ll love it
A country measured in meals. Fresh pasta, old vines, and lunches that become dinners. A GoSmart specialist tailors the route, the stays, and the pace to you.
Why it works
Flour to your elbows at a nonna's kitchen table, learning to roll pasta she has made ten thousand times, a glass of the neighbor's wine at your side and lunch already three hours long. In Italy the meal is the main event, and the country obliges.
Worth knowing
Each region is its own cuisine: Bologna for ragu and mortadella, Tuscany for bistecca and Chianti, the Amalfi coast for lemons and seafood. Pick a region or two and go deep rather than sprinting the whole boot.
Do at least one hands-on class or market tour with a local, because it turns a nice meal into the trip's best memory. And eat where the menu is short and in Italian, not where a tout is waving photos out front.
Spring and fall are ideal: warm, less crowded, and lined up with harvests like the autumn grape and olive crush. Lunch is long and dinner starts late, so lean into the rhythm rather than rushing it.