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Our Italian Region of the Year: Friuli Venezia Giulia
It’s official! Travel + Leisure has proclaimed Italy its Destination of the Year for 2021. “A new Italian renaissance is waiting in the wings,” writes the magazine, and a dose of that irrepressible Italian spirit is just what we all need to fight the Pandemic Blues. Among those suffering from “Italy deprivation” is our own