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Welcome back to Hidden Italy with Anna.
If you’ve been following along, you already know that Italy has layers most travelers never see. You know that the Italy in guidebooks and Instagram posts is only part of the story. And you know that the version most Americans experience is often rushed, filtered, and incomplete. Today, I want to take it one step further and talk about something every traveler dreams of but rarely achieves: traveling Italy like a local, not a tourist.

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La notte di Capodanno nella famosa località di Crans-Montana, una zona di montagna nella Svizzera francese dove tanta gente va per sciare e festeggiare, sarebbe dovuta essere una notte speciale e felice. Invece quella notte è diventata una delle più tragiche degli ultimi anni.
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New Year's Eve in the famous resort of Crans-Montana, a mountain area in French-speaking Switzerland where many people go skiing and celebrating, should have been a special and happy night. Instead, that night became one of the most tragic in recent years.

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Welcome back to Hidden Italy with Anna.
In the last episode, I talked about why the Italy you’re looking for isn’t in the guidebooks. Today, I want to take that idea one step further. Because there is an Italy most travelers never see. Not because it’s impossible to reach, not because it’s dangerous or remote, but because no one ever tells you to look for it.
This Italy isn’t hidden behind locked doors or secret passwords. It’s hidden behind assumptions. Expectations. Habits. The way trips are usually planned from the outside.
When travelers imagine Italy, a few images immediately come to mind. Iconic cities. Famous landmarks. A very specific version of “Italian life” that feels cinematic and familiar, even if you’ve never been there. That version of Italy is real, but it’s only a thin slice of a much deeper, more complex country.

** for English speakers
Welcome to Hidden Italy with Anna.
If you’re listening to this, chances are Italy has been calling you for a while. Maybe you’ve already been once. Maybe you’ve been dreaming about it for years. Or maybe you’ve booked a trip and something doesn’t quite sit right. You’ve bought the guidebooks. You’ve saved the Instagram posts. You’ve pinned the must-see places. And yet there’s this quiet feeling that the Italy you’re looking for… isn’t really in any of those places.
That feeling is exactly why this podcast exists.

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L’Italia è sempre una buona idea
Ci sono tantissimi motivi per andare a vivere in Italia. Il primo? Il calore delle persone.
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Italy is always a good idea
There are many reasons to go and live in Italy. The first? The warmth of the people.