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Visit Savona in one day: what to see and do to make the most of your time there

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Savona is undoubtedly one of the lesser-known Italian cities. 

Right in the heart of the Italian Riviera, the city is often neglected by tourists who focus their attention on the more attractive seaside locations. After all, most of the tourists come to the area for its beaches and pristine waters and do not even think that Savona might be an interesting place to visit.

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Looking for authentic Italian recipes in English? Here are three Italian food blogs you’ll truly love

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We have amazing food bloggers, here in Italy, publishing plenty of great Italian recipes. 

Unfortunately, these blogs are all in Italian. So, if you are looking for authentic Italian recipes in English, written and published by Italian bloggers, it can be quite an adventure.

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[Italian Vocabulary] È ora di pranzo: a list of common Italian words and phrases to be used at lunchtime

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian words and phrases you’ll find in this post. You can find it in Your Italian Toolbox, a section of Instantly Italy where you’ll find Italian learning materials. You can get access to it by subscribing here. .

Food is most likely one of the first things that come to mind when thinking of Italy. 

There are art and history and the amazing scenery, obviously, but food plays a very important role in the culture of us Italians.

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La domenica italiana: How Italians spend their Sunday in a little provincial town

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How’s daily life in Italy? What do Italians usually do? How Italians spend their Sunday, for example?

These are some of the questions I get asked quite frequently, by either students or newsletter readers. It’s always difficult for me to answer these kinds of questions, as I have the feeling that each of us lives his or her own life and it is really difficult to generalize.

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25 Italian idiomatic phrases that are related to numbers

I have prepared a pdf file with all the Italian idiomatic phrases you’ll find in this post. You can find it in Your Italian Toolbox, a section of Instantly Italy where you’ll find Italian learning materials. You can get access to it by subscribing here.

It’s time for a new round of Italian ways of saying, don’t you think?

After writing two posts about ways of saying that have something to do with food and other two about idiomatic phrases that are related to animals, I thought it was time to write a post about Italian idiomatic phrases related to numbers. 

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