Random Italy Podcasts

Ruth is with geek with the certifications prove it. Ruth lives and travels wine. Caroline is a server who enjoys wine and wants to learn more about it. Their combined knowledge and experience gives life and joy to the wine experience. It doesn’t have to be expensive, it has to be good. Ruth and Caroline talk history, culture, and terroir as they taste and rate wines.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: canada, Experience, france, Italy, region, Terroir, United States, varietal, wine, world

Enthusiastic amateurs, inquisitive gadabouts, cheerful idiots. Join sisters Anna and Kate every fortnight as they discuss something, someone or somewhere fun, freaky or fascinating they’ve discovered in their adopted countries of France and Italy. Highlights include: decapitation, cheese, arguing about mountains, stolen penises, serial killers, existential crises, WAR and more. Get in touch via theenglishhavedisembarked@gmail.com or on Instagram @theenglishhavedisembarked

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Comedy, Culture, france, Italy, travel

About the Host

You may be wondering why I’m hosting a podcast about Lucca. Well, after travelling the length and breadth of Italy, I have quite simply, fallen in love with Lucca. I now spend a few months here each year, and, much to my delight, I have been welcomed into the community that is Lucca as only the Lucchese people know how to do.

About the Podcast

During my podcast I will be joined by a variety of special guests from all walks of life, who share my passion for Lucca and everything Italian. Each episode, my guests will share unique stories and interesting experiences that have shaped their lives and indulged their passion for Lucca. Throughout the podcast, guests will be sharing how they discovered Lucca, along with interesting tips for those that live, visit, intend to visit, or are just curious about Lucca. So, if you want to learn about the hidden gems, quiet corners, delicious places to eat, or realise your dream of living like an Italian local, hit the subscribe button now, and each new episode will magically appear in your podcast library.

About Lucca

The Tuscan City of Lucca (Centro Storico), has a population of around 88k, and is encircled by medieval walls which are used as a social promenade. Interesting landmarks include; the Guinigi Tower, the Anfiteatro, and the Via Fillungo, which is the main shopping street. There are many beautiful Churches, including the Duomo of San Martino, San Michele, and San Frediano with its stunning mosaic. The Province of Lucca, consisting of just over 30 Communi (districts), has a population of around 380k, and this podcast will discuss the breathtaking delights of the City and the Communi beyond its Walls.

Subscribe, Follow, Review, Donate

I self-fund this podcast, so if you enjoy listening, I would be ever so grateful if you could visit the Ko-Fi supporter webpage ko-fi/lifeinlucca and donate the equivalent of a gelato or two, as this helps me to produce further episodes. You could also hit the subscribe or follow button now on your usual podcast app so that each new episode will appear, as if by magic, in your podcast library. And, if you’ve a little time to spare, please do leave a review.

Connect with me…

Website: https://shows.acast.com/lifeinlucawithandrea

E:mail: lifeinlucca@hotmail.com

Instagram: andreas_life_in_lucca

Twitter: @mountains46

Ko-fi: ko-fi/lifeinlucca

Sponsorship

If you are looking to sponsor the show, please contact me on: lifeinlucca@hotmail.com

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My guest today is Saraya Motley. Saraya spent her early years in Rome, before returning to the States to complete her higher education. Now an independent Luxury Travel Agent, she works remotely from the commune of Capannori, in the hills of Lucca, which she has made her permanent home. I was struck how passionate Saraya is to ensure that her clients have the ultimate travel experience, so she is the ideal person to make recommendations for you to experience in and around Lucca.

Connect with this Episode’s supporter – Melting Pot Lucca, Language School

Website: www.meltingpotlucca.it

E-mail: info@meltingpotlucca.it

Instagram: @meltingpotlucca

Facebook: meltingpotlucca

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Saraya’s Recommendations

Ristorante SurReale, Via dell’Anfiteatro, 37 Lucca

Osteria da Pasqualino Gubitosa, Via del Moro, 8 Lucca

Osteria Da Giomo, Via di Mezzo, 3 Valgiano Capannori

Osteria da mi pa’, Via della Chiesa di Gragnano, 65 Capannori

Osteria Candalla, Via di Candalla, 264 Camaiore

Ristorante Filippo, Via Padre Eugenio Barsanti, 45 Pietrasanta

Pasticceria Buccellato Taddeucci, Piazza San Michele, 34 Lucca

Pasticceria Dolcidea, Via dei Bocchi, 352 Capannori

Cremeria Opera: Sant’Anna; Sant’Alessio; Il Pinturicchio

Da Piero, Via Roma, 25 Lucca

Morning Bike Ride with Tour Guide

Shopping on Via Fillungo

Passeggiata with a gelato

Piazza San Frediano for an aperitivo

Hike around Candalla Waterfalls, Camaiore

Wine tasting tour

Villa Reale, Via Fraga Alta, 2 Marlia

Explore the Tuscan countryside

Siena, especially during the Palio

Forte dei Marmi, beach and market

Favourite Italian word/phrase

Non vedo l’ora – I can’t wait

Connect with Saraya

WhatsApp: +393664821577

Email saraya@luxprimatravel.com

Website: luxprimatravel.com

Instagram: @luxprimatravel

Facebook: luxprimatravel

About the Host

Andrea has travelled the length and breadth of Italy. Having fallen in love with Lucca, she now spends a few months there each year.

Subscribe, Follow, Review, Donate

I self-fund this podcast, so if you enjoy listening, I would be ever so grateful if you could visit the Ko-Fi supporter webpage ko-fi/lifeinlucca and DONATE the equivalent of a gelato or two, as this helps me to produce further episodes. You could also hit the SUBSCRIBE or FOLLOW button now so that each new episode will appear, as if by magic, in your podcast library. And, if you’ve a little time to spare, please do leave a REVIEW.

Website:https://shows.acast.com/lifeinlucawithandrea

E-mail: lifeinlucca@hotmail.com

Instagram: andreas_life_in_lucca

Twitter: @mountains46

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Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Italy, Lucca, Tuscany

Excited for the next adventure? Where to Go, produced by the team behind the award-winning DK Eyewitness travel guides,is here to help. Each fortnight, hosts James and Lucy talk to local experts about the destination they have chosen to call their home, exploring their personal connection to the place, what makes it so special and the best things to see and do. And from time to time, they’ll be talking to some very special guests about their favourite places to go, alongside some quickfire travel questions. Where to Go is also supported by our colleagues from DK Travel in Germany (Vis-à-Vis, Top 10 and more).

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Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Adventure, amsterdam, atlas obscura, dk, dk eyewitness, dublin, holidays, iceland, Italy, London, new york city, Toronto, travel, travel diaries, vacation

Rick Steves Audio Tours are leaving the podcast space. For the latest versions of these audio tours, download the (free!) Rick Steves’ Audio Europe™ App — available for Apple and Android. The app also includes hours of top-quality travel talk excerpted from the Travel with Rick Steves radio interviews to add another dimension — and some different voices — to your travel planning and appreciation. Learn more at https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/audio/audio-europe Rick Steves Italy Audio Tours provide humorous and insightful commentary on the art and history of many of Italy’s most notable museums and historic sites in Assisi, Florence, Pompeii, Milan, Naples, Rome, Siena, and Venice. Excerpted from Rick Steves guidebooks. All rights reserved. yifp3aac

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: 721132, Assisi, Europe, Florence, Italy, Pompeii, Rick, Rome, Steves, tour, Vatican, Venice, walking

Hi, I’m Paula Mohammed, welcome to my podcast: In My Kitchen with Paula. This podcast is a gathering place for culinary adventurers who love to travel.

Here’s a little about me…

My parents came from very different backgrounds, so I grew up with cultural influences from Pakistan, Japan, Italy, and New Zealand. In our family kitchen, the different traditions, recipes, and stories mingled together to create meals that were fun, inspiring, and memorable.

This inspired a love of travel and cooking in me that continues today. AND a curiosity about the people behind the dishes.

I’m also the founder and CEO of In My Kitchen. We teach in-person and online cooking classes where my team of passionate home cooks from diverse cultures invite you into their kitchens to share their recipes, stories and travel gems.

On this podcast, we’ll explore the people, cultures and recipes from your travel bucket lists. Every week we’ll come together with a new guest and their unique dish. Using the dish as the vehicle, we’ll take a ride into the ins and outs of their culture and country. Along the way we’ll gather some insider travel tips that only a local knows, have a new recipe to try and basically just hang out…in my kitchen.

So grab your favourite beverage and join me on a culinary adventure!

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: cooking, cooking show, Culture, Food, greece, iran, Italy, persia, Recipes, travel, Vietnam, women travel

Welcome to the Dall’Uva “Tasting Notes” Podcast forum. Michael Horne is your personal Sommelier for interesting stories, news and recommendations on Italian wines, food and travel. Explore the cultural richness and flavors of Italian wines, regional foods and off-the-beaten-path travel along the Italian peninsula. Pour yourself a glass of Vino Italiano, pull up an easy chair, and join us for today’s Tasting Notes Podcast!

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Food, Italian, Italy, slow, tour, travel, wine

The Roman World introduces students to the society, literature and art of ancient Rome, through a study of its major historical and literary figures, such as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Virgil and Ovid. We shall look at Rome’s place in the ancient Mediterranean world, and its connections with ancient Greece and other cultures, such as Egypt and Gaul. Through almost constant warfare, Rome accumulated an enormous Mediterranean empire, and this subject will investigate how this shaped Roman culture, through such topics as the acquisition of slaves and the ability to import luxury objects. We shall also see how the civil conflicts of the first century BCE affected Rome and Roman identity, leading to Caesar, Pompey and others engaging in propaganda wars, as seen through competitive monumental building, and to some self-questioning in the literature of the period. Towards the end of the semester, we shall look at Rome’s lasting influence, and the way that we continue to represent Rome in book and film.

Categories: Education

Tags: ancient history, ceasar, chris mackie, christopher mackie, History, Italy, La Trobe, Pompeii, rhannian evans, Roman, Rome, university

A podcast dedicated to unique travel destinations throughout Italy. Learn to travel like an Italian not a tourist. We discuss local culture, foods, secret places the touring companies can’t or won’t take you, and help you discover the real gems of Italian life so you can experience Italy like a local.

Categories: Education, Leisure, Society & Culture

Tags: dream of italy, emilia-romagna, italian beaches, italian culture, Italian food, italian vacation, Italy, italy travel, northern italy, off the beaten path italy, small group travel italy, tourism, travel, vacation

In this podiobook: Lucy Albert is not your ordinary maladjusted suburban adolescent. Born into the era of the Black Plague in medieval Italy, Lucy is chosen as a mate by the sinister vampire Sebastianus against her will. Struggling to survive in a modern world she cannot identify with, Lucy isn’t looking for attention. Welcome to Forever Fifteen, where a lonely girl seeks refuge in a world awash in everyday brutality, a world where only blood and death can sate her hunger. Journey into Lucy’s past as you experience the terror of the Black Death and the harsh reality of womanhood in the Middle Ages. Enter Forever Fifteen, the fast-paced thrill ride that is redefining vampire horror.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: angst, anxt, black, Blood, bubonic, cursed, death, high, Italy, kimberly, medieval, plague, Renaissance, romance, school, Steele, teen, teenage, teenager, vampire, Vampires, vampiric

Travel deep into the heart of Italy to see this fascinating country through the lens of those who know it well. Listen to lively discussions, informative interviews, travel tales and other tasty tidbits from the mainland and islands of Italia. Learn about Italy’s lesser known places, events and experiences with host, Andrea Aldrich, an Italian travel specialist and tour guide for Travel in Italia.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: art, cooking, Food, Italian, Italy, Rome, Sardinia, Sicily, travel, Trentino, Tuscany, wine

Tutti Matti per l’Italiano! – Italian Podcast – Improve Italian language skills with this podcast that is presented in Italian and features stories, clips & conversations with native Italian speakers. It explores all aspects of Italian culture, music and current events as well as language learning tips. Parliamo e ascoltiamo la lingua poetica with Melissa la studentessa matta.

Categories: Education, Society & Culture

Tags: italia, italianculture, italiancustoms, italianlanguage, italianlifestyle, italiantraditions, Italy, learnitalialn, melissamuldoon, studentessamatta

Join an American couple as they unplug from life as scientists and move to a small farm in rural Italy. We’ll share what we’ve learned – usually as a result of some sort of misstep – as we get to work on our little organic vineyard, olive grove, and farm. The area around the farm is breathtaking, the people are friendly, and life there is amazing.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: agriturismo, Italian, Italy, Leisure, lifestyle, Marche, organic, travel, Vineyard

Marco Zaza has been telling family stories—funny or sad or nostalgic stories—at various dinner tables for over half a century now. These are tales that reveal one family’s experience as immigrant- and first-generation Italian-Americans. With this podcast Marco shares these entertaining memories with a broader audience. Now illuminated with conversations that add details and tangential stories, the episodes elicit the laughter and tears that always resulted when he treated his family, gathered around a meal, to a sweet memory or two.

Categories: History, Society & Culture

Tags: family, Family history, Funny, Immigrants, immigration, italian-american, Italy, memories, nostalgia, ohio, oral history, storytelling, touching

This podcast will explore the development of the art, architecture, culture and history in Italy, from ancient Roman times through the Renaissance. Listeners will develop an understanding of Italy’s role in the development of Western civilization and an ability to appreciate and understand works of art in their historical context.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: architecture, art, Florence, History, Italy, milan, painting, Renaissance, Rome, sculpture

Welcome to Cerca! The Cerca app, available for iOS, is the world’s best travel guide – right on your phone. Visit CercaTravel.com for more news on where Cerca is going and to sign up for special access to new features.

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Rome has a unique relationship with time. Making a plan here isn’t like making a plan anywhere else in the world. But we are here to help. In this Cerca Guide, Virginia Vigliar takes you through her beloved city, a city of contradictions and perfections, of nuns and Italian Hip Hop, of incredible food, world beating cinema, and the most beautiful light on earth. Welcome to golden hour perfection. Welcome to the Eternal city. Benvenuto a Roma!

And there’s even more in the Cerca app – bonus content, maps, and info on the points of interest mentioned in our episodes. Listen, become inspired and plan all without worrying about having to hit pause and take notes – because the info you need is waiting for you in the Cerca App.

Whether you’re planning a trip to Rome in the near future, are already there, or just want to learn about a place we love, you’re in the right place. This is what we do.

~This Cerca Guide was written and voiced by Virginia Vigliar. Additional research by Victoria Emma Watson Cheyne.

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At Cerca, we want our community to be a part of building this amazing new way to explore the world, and to benefit from its success. For a limited time Cerca is open for investment through Republic. For as little as $100 you can own a piece of this company.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: Italian, Italy, Rome, travel

Welcome to Kimberly’s Italy, a travel podcast focused on all things Italian. My love affair with Italy started with a move to Milan many years ago, and the enriching experience became part of my DNA. Our episodes highlight some of our own travels and the comical lessons we learned along the way. You can be the beneficiary of invaluable travel tips, and at the same time enjoy a few laughs. We share our passion of the Italian cuisine, history, art, architecture, and the welcoming nature of the Italian people, whom define this incredible country. You can reach me at: Kimberlysitaly.com

Categories: Arts, Leisure, Society & Culture

Tags: amalfi, capri, como, Florence, Italy, puglia, Rome, travel, turin, Tuscany, Venice

Travel: In Situ is a podcast hosted by archaeologist Darius Arya. Each episode finds Arya on location discovering and uncovering elements of the past – from the back streets of Rome to the bazaar of Cairo, from the Agora of Athens to the Medina of Tunis, and from the Vatican Museums to the Roman emperor Diocletian’s palace of Split. Episodes drop each Monday!

Diocletian is the third century emperor that brought the Empire back from the brink of collapse. After generations of uncertainly, his will, administration, military prowess and ruthless drive established a new period of calm that rippled through the Roman empire. Just consider the tetrarchy ruling system, new management of provinces, Edict of Prices, and Great (Christian) Persecution! And when it was all said and done he retired in his bespoke fortified villa that became the core of the later town of Split, Croatia. So richly preserved that it is a noted UNESCO site and also the location for many a scene in Game of Thrones. Walk the streets of this historic site and explore the archaeology, art, and ancient history beneath with Darius on his recent visit!

Categories: History, Society & Culture

Tags: ancientrome, Archaeology, architecture, arthistory, Emperor, Entertainment, excavation, Food, historicalpreservation, History, Italy, Mediterranean, Romans, Rome, travel, wine