New members here. Just returned from our first trip to Calabria. We stayed in the hills close to Caminia beach. Absolutely loved it! Had a rental car and visited small hillside towns and castles. Had some great dinners in tiny restaurants. One week was way too short. Coming back in autumn with 3 weeks in Scalea and 1 month in Puglia.

Hello All: If you are aware of the ongoing issues with Law 74 Tajani Decree I wanted to get thoughts on my comments below. From what I am seeing based on my research, the reason for this was solely due to abuse leading to overloading the consulates, noting that the majority of abuse were people getting the citizenship and not living in Italy thus not intending a connection, rather, using the privledge for the benefits it provdes. While I do agree with reasoning to correct abuse, my thought on the resolution are as follows: If this is so, then wouldn't it have been much more straight forward and simple to just add mandatory criteria, such as, 1) Mandatory living in Italy requirements with scheduled check in's; 2) Mandatory language test. This would stop the vast majority of the abuse, as people would now have to live in Italy and have knowledge of language, thus, stopping the abuse of getting the citizenship just for the benefits. However, it appears that Antonio Tajani's decree that was passed looks more like a convaluted, complicated legal issue that the courts in Italy are still dealing with, over a year later. On April 14, 2026 the Italian Supreme Court will be hearing Law 74 relating to retroactivity and, the minor issue (I think). It actually now limits to two generations (parent and grandparent), so, at 11:55 pm on May 22, 2025 a person was an Italian Citizen via birthright; then 6 minutes later on May 23, 2025, they were not. I keep trying to research to find out more information on why it was done this way. Thoughts? Comments? Thank you.

Hi Guys! I am doing a video on the 10 Question Move to Italy Regret Test. Here is the downloadable PDF of the test and the scoring criteria. Test your readiness to make the move and tell us about your score!

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Today we filmed the kitchen and shopping scenes for our movies Chasing la Bella Vita. We had to put Gigi in the film. She is hilarious!