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As we head into a new year - can you even believe 2010 is approaching?
- we here at Dream
of Italy have some exciting
news and want to celebrate it with you! In early 2010, we will be
launching a free daily e-mail devoted to Italian food, wine, travel and
lifestyle called Italian
Daydreams. These short, savvy
dispatches will provide us with the chance to cover more of the topics,
such as food, wine, culture and the arts, that are important
to our Italophile readers. Plus the daily e-mail format is a terrific
way to feed everyone's daily need for everything Italian!
To celebrate this exciting new project we would like to give you a FREE COPY
of our brand new e-book Christmas
in Italy: Traditions, Travel Tips and Recipes
just for adding your name to our ItalianDaydreams.com mailing list (you
can choose to receive daily e-mails or a weekly digest). This 35-page
guide to Christmas in Italy includes all of our back content on
spending the holidays in Italy as well as plenty of new articles on how
to celebrate Christmas and New Year's Italian-style, whether you are
traveling or staying home.
Here's what you can look forward to in this colorful,
photo-packed holiday guide:
- Find out how to get tickets to see the Pope at Midnight Mass.
- Learn key phrases for wishing your Italian friend happy holidays in their language.
- Taking the kids to Italy for Christmas? We've got the 411 on which hotels offer special family-friendly Christmas packages.
- Want to impress your family and friends with delicious Italian holiday desserts. We have the recipes!
- Plan an Italian shopping expedition through the Italy's best Christmas markets.
- Learn how to mark the start of Hanukkah in Rome.
- Read about how the new year is ushered in on the Amalfi Coast and get a recipe for an essential New Year's dish.
- Visit the greatest Christmas street in the world in Naples.
- Discover the legend of La Befana and find out why Italians love their Christmas creches (presepi) - there's even a Roman museum devoted to them.
- And much more...
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We've gathered the experts to
give you practical Christmas travel advice as well as share their own
memories of
Italian holiday traditions:
- Dream of Italy Editor Kathy McCabe outlines the Italian holiday season for you, what happens when and more importantly what to eat when.
- Frequent Dream of Italy contributor and author Susan Van Allen explains the magic of La Befana and the holiday market at Rome's Piazza Navona.
- Dianne Hales, author of La Bella Lingua, offers a fascinating lesson in the language of the holidays in Italy - a quick Italian lesson for us all.
- Our woman in Rome Frances Kidd heads to Naples to visit the master artisans behind Italian creches.
- Back in the Eternal City, Kidd shares a complete guide to Christmas in Rome.
- McCabe gives readers the 411 on how to see the Pope during the Vatican's Christmas celebrations.
- Marielena Martone scours Italy for the best Christmas markets and traditional holiday events.
- Shannon Venable of ItaliaKids.com shares how to keep the kids entertained during a holiday visit to Italy.
- Family travel expert Amie O'Shaughnessy fills us in on hotels offering special Christmas and New Year's packages.
- Three - yes, count 'em three - Venice experts guide us to the best markets, restaurants and events in Venice this holiday season.
- Anthony Cappozolli of How to Tour Italy writes about the magical taste of Florence in winter.
- Laura Faust instructs us on New Year's traditions in Campania and includes a traditional lentils recipe.
- Robin Locker of MyMelange.net proclaims her love for the classic Italian holiday dessert - panettone.
- Cookbook author and Tuscany resident Pamela Sheldon Johns fills us in on the best of the holiday season in Tuscany (with recipe).
- The Diva of Tuscan cooking Judy Witts Francini shares four mouth-watering recipes for Itlaian desserts.
- Our friends at ClassicTic.com fill us in on Italian holiday concerts and offer our readers an exclusive 10% discount.
- And much more...
YOU MUST CLICK ON THE CONFIRMATION E-MAIL YOU AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE AFTER SIGNING UP AND THEN YOU WILL BE SENT THE E-MAIL WITH THE LINK TO THE CHRISTMAS GUIDE. THIS IS A DOUBLE OPT-IN E-MAIL SYSTEM.