If you have already visited Rome, Florence, Venice and maybe Lake Como, as well as the Cinque Terre and the Amalfi Coast, and if you might be thinking you have now seen everything worth visiting in Italy… think again! There is no region, no city or even no small village in the country that will…
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” (*)
In the ’70s Today Walking along the canals in Milan – Back in the ’70’s, the area of the canals (“navigli” in Italian) was where poorer people, immigrants and artists used to live in…
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” (*)
The first thing to do when visiting “Maremma” (in the southwest corner of Tuscany) is to “forget.” Yes, that’s right, to forget all the clichés and legends about this territory; throw to the winds the story about the local “butteri”…
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” (**)
Too often Lucca is considered and planned within an Italian itinerary, as a possible daytrip from a different base. But invariably, once in the city, visitors regret their decision and wish they had planned to dedicate more time to this…
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by” (**)
We love this quote by Robert Frost since it conveys the very nature of Hidden Treasures of… Italy, or any other country we may visit in our travels. There is no doubt that every time we take a trip –…
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself”. (*) Hello everyone, this is the first post from the new Hidden Treasures of Italy Blog. We have been in the travel consultancy business for more than twenty years now,…