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Wandering in Trastevere in Roma

You can reach Trastevere coming from different sides, my advice is to get there from Via dei Pettinari and crossing Ponte Sisto. You'll thus feel you're entering the area from a privileged access. As many any important city in Europe, Rome rose near... Read >

An aristocratic city in Tuscany: Lucca

The beautiful medium sized cities of Tuscany all have very distinctive characters highly differencing them from one another; in fact during the past centuries this individuality was all the more strong and affirmed in endless and often bloody struggles. ... Read >

One Day in Valdarno (Tuscany)

I've decided to go from Arezzo to Florence (three quarters of an hour by highway) employing, but only for personal lack of time, a whole day. I won't tell you about Arezzo, lovely but already well known, so we start in the morning towards north-west ta... Read >

Pienza - a Pearl in the Beautiful Orcia Valley (Tuscany)

If you drive along the Regional road SR2, which follows the layout of the ancient Via Cassia connecting Viterbo and Siena, ideal for not hurried people, you will meet a lot of places decidedly worthy seeing. With a short diversion you can reach Pienza. ... Read >

The Carthusian Monastery of Padula

If you ride the so-called highway Salerno- Reggio Calabria towards Reggio, about 8 km. After Sala Consilina you'll find the exit for Padula. Take it and go on following the directions first for Padula and then for San Lorenzo's Certosa. If you happe... Read >

Charming Ninfa' s Gardens

Near Rome the charming oasis of Ninfa's Gardens For lovers of gardens Ninfa is perhaps the most popular destination in Rome's surroundings: it's a garden grown in the last 80 years in a plain where originally there were only pastures and the rests of ... Read >

Eating in Venice.

Eating in Venice Finding a convenient place to eat Venetian food in Venice may be hard job, so here,as an old habituée, I'll try to give some hints. The Venetians between twelve and one o'clock p.m. are used to take a glass of wine with a snack, th... Read >

Wonderful Salento

If you decide to cross Salento Peninsula (South Italy, Puglia) going from Lecce to Otranto the best thing is to avoid both the coastal road and the motorway, taking instead secondary roads that run across the country and pass by small historic centres, as... Read >

Matera, the location of “The passion of Christ”

On the location of "The passion of Christ". Mel Gibson's famous film was entirely shot in Matera and in its "Sassi", an incredibly suggestive scenery. Matera is a medium sized town in Basilicata, in Italy's deepest South. When you look in the map ... Read >