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Author: Select Italy Select Italy puts you in touch with the heart of Italian culture, from the Tuscan countryside to the capital of Rome, and provides the information needed to organize a once in a lifetime tour of Italy.
Cynthia Bianchini, Select Italy Intern

1. Name and What do you do at Select Italy?
Cynthia Bianchini. I’m an intern in New York for the Production Department.
2. What’s your favorite Italian destination?
I haven’t been in many Italian cities, but I liked all the cities I visited. Each of them were differ Continue reading

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Anthony from Select Italy Travel

1. Name and What do you do at Select Italy? 
My name is Anthony, or as I like to say when in Italy – which is never often enough…io mi chiamo Antonio .  Because everything sounds better in Italian, I also sometimes just say this around the house. I write on Italian tra Continue reading

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Selene

1. Name and What do you do at Select Italy?
My name is Selene! I am an Intern in the Marketing and Production Departments in the New York City office of Select Italy.
2. What’s your favorite Italian destination?
I think Italy is full of amazing places but “ Continue reading

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Select Italy team Amalia

1. Name and What do you do at Select Italy? 
My name is Amalia and I’m an intern at the New York City office.

2. What’s your favorite Italian destination? 
Italy is definitely one of the most complete countries ever: geologically, physically and culturally sp Continue reading

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Select Italy’s President and owner, Andrea Sertoli, is the guest of “Your Money Matters” on WGN9 TV channel. Travel tips  can help you save money before and during your trip to Italy or anywhere else.
Before leaving:
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Were you in Rome last summer? We hope so, but at least three people who we sort of   know, in a let’s-trade-places-for-a-day kind of way, were Penelope Cruz, Alec Baldwin and Woody Allen. Movie-making legend Allen took to the Eternal City with a bevy of famous actors Continue reading

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A few days ago I was in the midst of a conversation with Amalia,
one of the interns here in the NYC office. We were talking about the long established importance of the web in the travel industry and in particular of the increasing role of online visual experiences. In t Continue reading

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There are places where you can go eat in ten different spots, eat ten different things and it will all taste the same. In Italy, you can go to ten different places, eat the same dish ten times, and it will always taste different
This sentence encapsulates the secret of Itali Continue reading

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While Italy is home to many of the world’s greatest art museums, where names like Michelangelo, Botticelli and more are par for the course, it also has many smaller museums that vie for the attuned traveler’s attention. Not surprisingly, most (but not all) are foun Continue reading

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Florence, like Paris or New York, is the kind of city that everybody thinks they know. And maybe they do. But even though it is full of famous works of art, Florence (like those other cities) reveals its secrets slowly. It’s one of the reasons why, perhaps more than in any Continue reading

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