American-Irish writer and historian Mary Jane Cryan has been living in Italy since 1965 working in the fields of international education, journalism and tourism. When she is not busy writing about central Italy in her palazzo between Rome and Civitavecchia, she can be found aboard luxury cruise ships sailing the Mediterranean as a guest lecturer.
Check her blog http://www.50yearsinItaly.blogspot.it for hundreds of insider tips and her award-winning website http://www.elegantetruria.com