Most people visit Italy and see the same postcards everyone else does. Joseph Walker spent 30 years finding the Italy hiding underneath it. A sunken Roman city off the coast of Naples, wines you can only taste in tiny local pockets, and forgotten kingdoms no guidebook mentions. In this episode, he shows you how to travel Italy like an explorer instead of a tourist.

What You'll Learn

• How Joseph rediscovered Portus Julius, a Roman city sitting underwater near Naples that almost no tourist ever sees
• How to spot the "real" Italy versus the version built for tourists
• Why the famous Marco Polo pasta story is completely made up, and where pasta actually started
• What makes Italian wine taste like nothing you can buy in a store back home
• Why a small group of 10 can reach places a 40-person bus tour physically cannot
• The mindset shift that turns a good trip into one you remember for life

About Joseph Walker

Joseph Walker first came to Italy as a teenager in the US Navy and never really left. He earned a master's in history with a focus on Italy, learned the language, and turned a lifelong obsession with discovery into a career. He's the founder of Chameleon Travel Shop, which runs intimate, off-the-beaten-path tours, and the creator of "Italian History with Joseph," where he shares the buried, sunken, and forgotten stories behind Italy's most famous places.

Connect With Joseph

• Instagram: Joseph Walker
• TikTok: Joseph Walker
• Facebook: Joseph Walker
• Tours: Chameleon Travel Shop