All Around Italy

    After 13 months of works and twenty years since last restoration, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II has been totally restored and will allow the access of passengers to all the sides and to shops.   The advanced machine …

Today, Margie tells about her meeting with a friend in Venice. Let’s see what she discovered during her tour. One of the benefits of social media is meeting people with similar interests from all over the world. I have known …

As I was planning another trip to Italy last year, one of my Roman friends told me about a keyhole on Colle Aventino (Aventine Hill) in Rome, from which you could see the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica.  A few …

Piazza della Signoria, Piazza del Plebiscito, Piazza Navona, Piazza San Marco: listing few among the most famous piazze in Italy would be enough to understand the deep meaning of a place that most Italians consider like home. In fact, the …

This new post from Margie takes us to Sicily, in particular in the famous Valle dei Templi in Agrigento. By 3:30 we had checked in to our hotel in Agrigento and then we left for the the nearby Valley of …

A maritime town on the sunny shores of the Ionian Sea, Taranto is often overlooked by tourists who flock to more mainstream areas of Apulia, such as the Salento or Lecce. Still, Taranto, the third largest continental city in Southern …

  Seventeen museums and archaeological areas across Italy will have free access to people who hold a ticket of Milan Expo throughout the duration of the world’s fair. The Expo 2015 card will also allow a free tour of so-called “Italian …

If you are visiting Milan for the 2015 Expo, you cannot miss the reproduction of Madonnina, built by Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo and placed in the area where Nigeria’s pavilion should have been risen, at the beginning of the exposition’s main …

  According to ANSA, the Italian Ministry for culture and the archeological superintendency decided to set a limit to the amount of visitors permitted to enter ancient site Pompeii at a single time. Indeed, the decision implies that no more …

The 2015 Universal Exposition is now kicking off in a completely restyled city of Milan, Italy. For at least six more months, the whole world will be looking at, talking of, and heading to the incredible 1.1 square kilometers exposition …