Elizabeth Bartman and Maureen Fant

Travel sites

ITA Airways
Italy’s flagship airline (Alitalia’s replacement)

Lufthansa
Sometimes the easiest way to get to Italy is via a German hub.

La Compagnie
All-business-class French airline between Newark (EWR) and Milan (MXP)

Rome airports 
Leonardo da Vinci and Fiumicino (FCO) are one and the same. Ciampino (CIA), smaller and nearer the city, is where many low-cost airlines go.

Trenitalia
Italy’s national railway. Look here for both high-speed trains and local puddle jumpers.

Italo (trains)
Private railway for high-speed trains in Italy

DB Bahn
The German railways site provides schedules for all of Europe.

Transportation Security Administration (U.S.)
Everything you need to know to avoid nasty encounters at the airport.

International Association of Culinary Professionals
Slow Food International
James Beard Foundation
UNESCO World Heritage List, Italy
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery

Rome and Lazio  

Ara Pacis
Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio
Ostia Antica
Hadrian’s Villa (Tivoli)
Vatican Museums
Museo delle Mura (Aurelian Walls)

Naples and Campania

Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei
Museo Archeologico della Penisola Sorrentina