Amateur Traveler Italy Podcasts

A travel podcasting and blogging friend of mine, Chris Christensen, is the man behind the popular Amateur Traveler podcast, and it’s still going strong: it now runs as Travel with Amateur Traveler, with more than a thousand episodes and new ones most weeks.

On each episode, Chris talks to one traveler about one destination - so although it’s not a comprehensive guide to that place, it’s a great way to get one person’s perspective on a location. You might learn about a favorite restaurant, a good day trip, or a valuable insight only someone who’s been there would know.

Chris once made a map of every Italy episode for this page, but that map no longer works. The easiest way to find the Italy shows now is the Italy tag on Amateur Traveler, or search “Italy” inside the show on Apple Podcasts or whatever podcast app you use.

More Italy travel podcasts

There are far more Italy podcasts now than when Chris started. These are all still publishing in 2026 and have strong listener ratings on Apple Podcasts:

• Untold Italy: Katy Clarke and her team put out a new episode every week, usually a conversation with someone who lives in or knows one region well. It has more than 350 episodes and, with over 650 ratings averaging 4.7 stars, the biggest following of the Italy-only shows here. Show notes are on untolditaly.com.
• Dream of Italy: hosted by Kathy McCabe, who founded the Dream of Italy travel publication in 2002 and hosts the PBS series of the same name. Episodes are mostly recorded on the road in Italy, and they range from cooking schools and villa rentals to getting Italian citizenship.
• Podcast from Italy: Ashley and Jason Bartner, Americans who have run La Tavola Marche, an organic farm, inn and cooking school in rural Le Marche, since 2007. Recipes, neighbors, village walks and wine. Good if you’re daydreaming about moving there.
• Flavor of Italy: Wendy Holloway’s weekly interviews with food people, locals and anyone with a good Italian story, heavy on food and recipes.
• The Italy Travel Podcast: Darcy and Nathaniel of Only A Bag, two tourists turned locals, with practical episodes twice a week on things like getting off the beaten path and ordering coffee at the bar.
• Coffee Break Italian: not a travel show, but a free, friendly way to pick up enough Italian to order dinner and ask which platform your train leaves from.