Mary Gray
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Mary Gray is the Editor-in-Chief of Italy Magazine. Raised in Mississippi, based in Florence for 12 years, and now living between Turin and Venice, Mary has written for The Washington Post, MICHELIN Guide, Virtuoso, Forbes Travel Guide and other outlets; co-authored guidebooks for DK Eyewitness, Lonely Planet and Time Out, and taught travel writing and fashion media at the university level. Her book Rental Diaries: Thoughts From My Four Walls in Florence, a collection of columns written during her five-year tenure as a deputy editor at The Florentine magazine, was published in 2020. Shabby trattoria tables and market stalls with nonna hand-me-downs are her happy places. Follow her on Instagram @verymarygray.
Articles by Mary Gray
Editor's note: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer,…
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Lombardy issue of Italy Magazine’s Bellissimo (Winter 2023/2024). We are republishing it as Mil…
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When winter is long and the world feels heavy, there’s no balm quite like a home-cooked dinner in good company. Ludovica Rubbini would know. Orig…
Editor’s note: Italy Magazine writers and editors personally inspect every hotel we feature. To make this feasible, we are generally hosted on a compl…
No fashion designer did minimalist elegance quite like Giorgio Armani, who died in Milan on Thursday at the age of 91. Known for revolutionizing…
Jacopa Stinchelli is from Rome, not Florence, but she’s a Renaissance woman through and through — with the diverse tastes and lofty aspirations to mat…
In the many frenzied media reports predicting Pope Francis’ successor, Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost flew under the radar.But on May 8, after a…
There was a common refrain many potential visitors to Rome heard across travel forums, social media and mainstream outlets in the months leading up to…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
This was supposed to be a banner year in the international spotlight for Agrigento, Italian Capital of Culture for 2025. But the early days of th…
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Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
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The northwestern region of Liguria, which slivers up from the Tuscan border toward southern France, brushing Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy…
“Barbiecore” was a buzzword for much of 2023 thanks to Greta Gerwig’s record-breaking summer blockbuster. But in Italy, a similar phenomenon took off…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
In Venice, there’s one thing nearly everyone agrees on: Something’s got to be done to curb the effects of mass tourism. But local consensus on what, e…
Location-independent Italophiles around the world rejoiced earlier this month when Italy joined many of its European peers in offering a digital nomad…
Ed.: Welcome to the inaugural Italy Magazine Round Table, in which members of our team across Italy call in for off-the-cuff conversation about the tr…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Italian events and initiatives to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which falls on November 25, are expected t…
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
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