Travel

Parma and its Province are the homeland of the excellence of some of the Italian culinary cornerstones. Places that are rich in history and their fairy-tale landscapes remind us why Italy is also known as “Il Bel Paese”. We would …

Palermo is the beating heart of Sicily, a heart that holds within all the mesmerizing beauty and stark oppositions typical of this land: it is rich in art and beautiful to the point of pain, yet rough around the edges …

There has never been any doubt that the Umbria region in the heart of Italy is a real “Land of the Saints”. Flocks of people come to this side of the Bel Paese every year in order to pay homage …

Italia Slow Tour Ambassador Roxana Iacoban took a trip throughout Milan going along the local Urban Railway line. Her second day of tour started in Porta Venezia, then Villa Necchi Campiglio (FAI heritage) and Chiaravalle Abbey and surroundings. She went …

Leaving Saint Rita’s native Cascia behind, our tour of Umbria proceeds to the steep hill of Todi, our second destination. Located in the southwestern part of the region, halfway between Perugia and Orvieto, in the 1990s Todi came to worldwide …

Gloriously glamorous villas dot the lakeside. Fearless kite-surfers scoot and skate over the sun-kissed water. And snow-capped mountains tumble towards the water’s edge where colorful villages cling. Look a little closer, though, and you start to spot buildings with no …

The so called Sacro Speco in Subiaco is a place of hermitage that has become work of architecture and art. Here is the cave where the young Benedict took refuge from Rome and where he remained for three years, in …

Italia Slow Tour Ambassador Roxana Iacoban took a trip throughout Milan going along the local Urban Railway line.

Slow Tour riding a horse, along the path of St Benedict that leads to the great Abbey of Montecassino, rising up above the Liri valley. Beneath the walls of the abbey there is a magnificent and ancient farm, representing quite …

Pretty whitewashed houses, narrow alleys and delightful little piazzas: Sperlonga, a quaint maritime village perched on the sides of Monte Magno in the region of Lazio, is the ideal place to rest and relax if you want to get away …