Although not easy to reach, the rewards of Friuli wine tourism include visiting a still-authentic area of Italy, relatively untouched by mass tourism. ByIrene S. Levine, Contributor. Forbes ...

Friuli’s verdant valleys are surrounded by Alpine peaks which, on clear days, offer views all the way down to the coast. Labyrinths of caves, ravines and canyons with waterfalls and fast-flowing ...

It overflows in la dolce vita, but one thing that’s not so sweet about Italy is the country’s propensity to complicate everything. Understatement, I know, to anyone who has lived or traveled in depth ...

White jackets were swirling around my wife in the blue light of an antiseptic room in the village of Tarare, near Lyon. A village I had never heard of, nor planned to visit. I had expected to be ...

Baita Friuli, an aged cow's milk cheese, conveys its birthplace in its name. Officially known today as Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the Friuli region in far northeastern Italy shares a border with Austria ...

Friuli-Venezia Giulia’s vineyards benefit from the breezy, sunny microclimate created by their equidistance from the Austrian Alps to the north and the Adriatic Sea to the south. SOPA/Corbis My love ...