100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go
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It s an undeniable fact that traveling to Italy is a dream for many women. While many travel guides offer dry lists of facts and can only guide travelers toward cookie-cutter tours, this female-centered guide allows women to make a personalized, fulfilling journey. Written in lively anecdotes and organized by trip type, this book offers a range of possibilities for any budget, interest, and level of travel experience. A godsend for women looking to finally fulfill their Italian fantasies, trip types include Hepburn s Roman Holiday and Venetian Carnevale, as well as additional information on fantastic shopping, the best beaches, and culinary-themed jaunts. With passion, humor, and helpful details, 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go inspires travelers to learn masterpieces, sensual delights, and adventures in bell Italia.
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This book is our perfect Dream Machine. Every night, we flip through it to find the perfect 4 to 5 page Italian “lullaby” to provide us with the inspiration for very sweet dreams. Susan Van Allen’s 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go is a collection of perfectly written “essays” about the things that make Italy special – food, art, culture, gardens, palaces, classes, etc. All this from an insider’s perspective that unlocks possibilities not establish in mainstream travel books.
Whether dreaming or preparation a visit to Italy, we highly recommend it.
Nancie Mills Pipgras
Editor and Blogger
Mosaic Art NOW
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Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This cornucopia of Italian delights titillates the senses and entices the imagination. Occasionally fringing on the irreverent (who else but Susan van Allen would dream of calling the Blessed Virgin Mary the BVM, for instance – only kidding, grrll!), and bordering on the erotic (as in Susan’s description of The Capitoline Venus attempting to take in her “Cupid’s cloister”), Susan’s selective guide to Italian beauty and beauties scampers through both urban and rural landscape with exuberant glee.
Ranging from the divine to the decadent, Susan’s romp through the Italian past and present has one hankering for more. The Divine: Goddesses, Saints, and the Blessed Virgin Mary takes one from the Campidoglio, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill to the Temple of Segesta in Sicily, by way of the artistic splendors of Florence, Tuscany, Venice, Padua, Naples, Campania and Palermo. In each, she focuses on the female, the envisioned and the immortal, as described in key works of art. Instructive and elucidating, she entices one with succulent morsels of information about the work and the artist involved. Suggesting the best times at which to visit all the museums and galleries that she recommends, Susan also gives handy tips on how to plot one’s jaunts for the day, including visits to nearby parks and restaurants. She even manages to sneak in extra tidbits of recommended reading, not to mention a novice’s guide to mythology and Mary’s rites of passage.
A small bit of history, a small bit of art… The second section of Susan’s 100 Places romps through the spacious ville, palazzo and an apartment, starting once more in Rome and ending in Sicily – an added bonus to her racy pace is the systematic way in which she unravels the labyrinthine. Her sense of enthrallment with her surroundings is enthralling, as she seduces us into imagining the scenes of revelry and mayhem that permeated the past.
Susan van Allen appears not only to appreciate the intimacy of the boudoir, but also the graceful and cultivated structuring of the outdoors. Finding la dolce vita in the harmonious blend of greenery, monument, and fountains that typifies the finest in Italian landscape farming, she explores gardens originating in the Renaissance and Baroque periods – not lacking a timely reminder that most gardens close down November to March, so best check yet to be to avoid disappointment.
Susan then extends her delight in the outdoors to an overview of the finest of Italian beaches, while, on the way, introducing one to the niceties of beach etiquette regarding such key points (;)) as topless bathing and clubbing. Mmm, and after indulging in all persons sun-drenched days, what next but to explore the most refreshing and soothing of beauty treatments offered by leading spas (contact details provided)…
The culinary delights of Italy await you next, as Susan encourages you to “pursue your passion for tasting by heading to the country and visiting a [woman-owned] winery” and to “indulge your tastebuds as you tune into tasty daily rhythms” of eating out at an urban caffè. Gelato, chocolate and wine are never too far from an Italian lover’s mind…
…and which woman does not like to shop…shoes, leather and paper ware, ceramics, jewelry, fragrances, lingerie, embroidery and lace…not to speak of shopping in Milan or at the antique markets, Susan explores them all.
Just in case you reflect that van Allen only indulges the feminine instinct of womankind, in her next section she counters by yielding to the wild buccaneering instinct that’s hidden deep within us all. In her section on active adventures, she introduces us to biking, hiking, skiing, boating, yoga and Pilates, Italian style.
Having worked up a sufficiently excellent appetite through adventuring abroad (pun proposed), Susan brings us home with a flourish in her section on cooking classes. She equates taking a cooking class in Italy with “getting a backstage pass to the country’s soul”.
After cooking with Susan in Rome, Tuscany, Parma-Emilia-Romagna, Ravello, Campania and Calabria (don’t you just revel in rolling persons names off your tongue?), you can learn any one of a vast range of Italian crafts and culture before being entertained at an array of cultural and sporting venues. Then, rounding it all off, she advocates reading about, and developing your own memories in, Italy.
100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go concludes with handy tips for Italian travel (though the entire work churns with such thoughts…) and packing, a calendar (or should I say colander?) of holy days, and a detailed pointer. By this stage, if you are not fully replete and with your dates for your next Italian excursion at least penciled in on your schedule, may the BVM come to your aid, sister… [Reviewer for [...]]
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
What a book! So full of information for a traveler and so well organized! Learn where and how to travel, where to dine,out of the way places most tourists miss (Judge me, I know, I’ve been there before.) Want to attending cooking classes, learn leather work, art restoration? This book has it all. Anyone preparation a trip to Italy (especially women) this book is a must !!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I just got a copy of this book “hot off the press.” The book caught my eye because I was getting ready to take a trip to Italy alone. Since the book is to geared toward women, I couldn’t resist getting it. Ms. Van Allen’s writing style is so fun and at the same time very informative. She spoke to all the things I hadn’t establish in additional Italy travel guides–things point to a woman’s sensibility. Although anyone can benefit tremdously from her insights and sound advice, I felt it really was perfect for a woman exploring Italy on her own. I loved getting the “lowdown” on massages and manicures as well as tranquil places to listen to composition and delight in gorgeous views. I’m so glad I took her advise about the museums to go to, since there was no way I could see all the museums in Rome and Florence in a week. I stayed a fabulous hotel she mentioned called the Casa di Santa Brigitta in Rome. This place was perfect for a single lady. And, Ms. Van Allen sure knows have to give fantastic background about Venus and additional godesses. She brought the statues to life even before I saw them! I’m so pleased I brought this book with me to Italy.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Van Allen crisscrosses Italy from top to bottom, touching the Huge Three (Venice, Florence and Rome) and covering lesser-visited spots, but her tour is not that of a predictable guidebook. In her words, she’s made a cookbook from which one can pick and chose according to one’s tastes–art, eating, shopping, etc.
But what makes Van Allen’s book unique is the lens she’s chosen to view Italy. Her focus is on women–the Madonna, Venus and Italy’s heap goddesses and female saints.
In Rome, most guidebooks introduce the Michelangelo-designed Piazza del Campidoglio and direct visitors to the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius inside the museum. Van Allen as a replacement for highlights Minerva in the piazza and directs us to the demure Venus inside. She tells us about Venus’s hot affairs with Mars and Adonis, gossiping as if Venus were a name she knew today. She does this in every one of her favorite churches and museums throughout Italy. The first half of the book, all ears on art and history, is my favorite part.
In the second half, she looks through the female lens with a more secular focus–gardens, spas, sports, shopping, cooking, culture and more. I especially like her Golden Days, her suggestions for additional things to see at each venue with recommendations for dining and lodging.
Van Allen’s “100 Places in Italy” might be better titled “1000 Places”–it’s so packed with information. I’ll be tucking this into my bag on my next visit.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5