Mary Gray
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Mary Gray is the Editor-in-Chief of Italy Magazine. Born and raised in Mississippi and now based in Florence, Mary draws from over a decade of on-the-ground adventures and an academic background in Italian Studies in her work. An accredited journalist with the Foreign Press Association in Italy, she has written for The Washington Post, Qantas Travel Insider and Forbes Travel Guide, co-authored guidebooks for Time Out, DK Eyewitness and Lonely Planet, 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 markets hawking nonna hand-me-downs are her happy places. (Instagram is not — but, predictably, you can still follow her there: @VeryMaryGray.)
Articles by Mary Gray
Mon, 10/28/2024 - 11:24
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Sun, 09/22/2024 - 05:00
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The northwestern region of Liguria, which slivers up from the Tuscan border toward southern France, brushing Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and…
Sat, 05/11/2024 - 16:00
“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…
Mon, 05/06/2024 - 08:30
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Tue, 04/30/2024 - 03:40
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…
Sat, 04/20/2024 - 03:30
Location-independent Italophiles around the world rejoiced earlier this month when Italy joined many of its European peers in offering a digital nomad…
Sat, 02/03/2024 - 16:02
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…
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 07:30
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Thu, 11/23/2023 - 02:00
Italian events and initiatives to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which falls on November 25, are expected t…
Mon, 11/06/2023 - 15:20
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Mon, 10/23/2023 - 07:00
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Mon, 08/14/2023 - 08:26
Ed.: The Inspired Stays series highlights hotels we love around Italy. Each property is independently reviewed by an Italy Magazine writer, who is gen…
Wed, 05/03/2023 - 15:00
In 2007, the Paris-based journalist Dana Thomas published a dense little book, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster, which quickly became a fixture on t…
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