2027 - Italy Group Trip - Two (2) Itineraries available
Guiseppe Marchese Italy Travel video overview with Q & A
Click on the image below to play the video from the overview zoom session held on May 9, 2026
Be on the lookout for a followup Newsletter article in June Edition
Travel dates will be May 10 – 31, 2027.
Many people expressed interest in getting info for our next trips to Sicily and Italy.
Our tour guide, Guiseppe Marchese, is a native of Palermo and has been in the tourism industry for 30 years!
He speaks Italian, Sicilian, English and Spanish. He is so knowledgeable, friendly, funny and personable.
The planned itineraries are as follows:
Sicily and Southern Italy – Arrival in Palermo, visiting Castellamare del Golfo, Erice, Scopello,
Palermo, Terrassini, Valle dei Templi, Scala dei Turchi, Cefalu, Monreale, S. Elia, Porticello, Pollina,
Castelbuono, Piazza Amerina, Villa Romana del Casale, Caltagirone, Marina di Ragusa, Ragusa Ibla,
Scicli, Donnalucata, Marzamemi, Tropea, Capo Vaticano, Lecce, Gallipoli, Ostuni, Alberobello, Bari,
Polignano a mare, Matera, Amalfi, Minori, Pompeii, Positano, Ravello. Departing from Napoli.
Italy, Central and Northern – Arrival in Roma, visiting Arezzo, Firenze, Lucca, Pisa, Castiglion del
Lago, Lago Trasimeno, Cortona, Treviso, Venezia, Verona, Ferrara, Padova, Sirimione, Lago di Garda,
Mantova, Bergamo Alta, Milano, Cernobbio, Lago di Como, Spoleto, Scheggino, Cascata delle Marmore,
Castelli Romani, Nemi, Castel Gandolfo, Spello, Rasiglia, Perugia, Assissi. Departing from Roma.
IAHF 2027 Italy Travel Overview Zoom Meeting
Vintage 1978, Our 2nd Annual Festa Film
This is a rare treat. We have this movie and had it digitized thanks to the Santa Clara County Recreations & Parks History Grant program.
The film was shown recently at the Puglia Regional Lunch on May 15, 2025.
You can watch a replay by clicking on the gold button below.
Check it out and let us know your comments by clicking on the envelope button below.
August 22, Thursday / Regional Lunch - Umbria
Umbria -- a fascinating part of Italy, that also includes Assisi and Orvieto with its famed cathedral. We will hear first-hand about some of the traditions of Gubbio, also part of Umbria, with Denise Wax whose family has roots in both Gubbio and a coal mining town in Pennsylvania that was composed of immigrants from Gubbio. And of course we welcome any personal recollections of visits in the region.
If you missed the lunch or attended and want to see Denise's presentation of Gubbio, just click The Gubbio image below
May 22, Wednesday / Movie Night featuring Heart's Delight-An Orchard Story
If you missed the event, you can view the video on You Tube, just click the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvXI_kYbwM&t=64s&pp=ygUOaGVhcnRzIGRlbGlnaHQ%3D
Celebration of Italian Musical Heritage with Emily Ray, Conductor
If you missed the Mission Chamber Orchestra concert on Sunday, January 28, you can now view the video and listen to the tracks by clicking on the picture below.
Enjoy!
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2024 - Possible Italy Group Trip
Claudia Rinna Italy Travel video overview with Q & A
Click on the image below to play the video from the overview zoom session held on January 11, 2024
Be on the lookout for a followup Newsletter article in April Edition.
Claudia is a travel agent and also works for La Locanda Hotels.
Check out the packages and info at this link: https://lalocandadelruspante.com/about-us/
She can arrange a package for groups up to 15 people (based on accommodations) at a discounted rate. She can also customize packages for individuals and couples including side excursions.
Her contact emails are:
claudia.rinna@evolutiontravel.email
Her phone number in Italy is:
+39 346.521.05.33
Check out this article and podcast: How Bay Area Italians Were Treated as 'Enemy Aliens' During WWII
Pauline Bartolone created a podcast about how Bay Area Italians were treated as ‘Enemy Aliens’ during World War II, featuring our very own Ken Borelli, who was interviewed for the podcast.
Below you can find the links to the article on KQED’s website, listen to the podcast and read the full transcript.
Ken Borelli and the model boat his uncle Girolamo Cantatore made after the crab fishing boat he used was seized by US forces. (Pauline Bartolone/KQED)
Pavarotti and Tom Jones singing "Delilah" in Napoli
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Vintage 2001, this amazing video, you'll notice the children singing in the background, they are wearing the "costumi" from from Piana degli Albanesi
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October was Italian-American Month
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The IAHF was among other organizations who received a proclamation from Mayor Mahan and City Council on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2023
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IAHF Video Archives
2023 St. Joseph's Day Celebration
2023 Mission Chamber Orchestra Music tracks
2023 Mission Chamber Orchestra Concert Video
A night at Vin Santo's Ristorante
IAHF Festa della Repubblica video celebration
Ken Borelli discusses the IAHF
Zucchero interview with Judy Verona Joseph, former IAHF Board Member and Producer of On The Town
Arrangiarsi: pizza... & the art of living
The Art of Neapolitan Pizzaiuolo
Cooking Pasta with Lucia Clementi
Interview with Ken Borelli and David Perzinski
St. Joseph's Day at the IAHF San Jose.
The Italian American Heritage Foundation San Jose
Spencer sings God Bless America
IAHF Library Interview with Richard Stewart
David Perzinski teaches Cucuzza pollenation
Pizza originally taught by Josephine Cancilla
Critics of Columbus by Richard Di Giacomo
Italian Renaissance Explorers by Richard Di Giacomo
Bitter Cichory and Sweet Espresso by Carmine Vittoria
Master Gardener Sharon McCray 2021
Genealogy with Madeline Damiano 2021