Travel

Villa Emo is the most balanced between the Palladian Villas. It represents a symbol of Palladio’s architecture. Villa Emo has got a wonderful park, with lots of artistic shaped hedges, that’s the art of topiary! It seems that the Emo …

Villa Barbaro Maser is one of the most characteristic Palladian villas, UNESCO world heritage. Outside the villa a huge garden, while inside the walls are frescoed by Paolo Veronese, with his own self-portrait, at the end of a string of …

Italia Slow Tour in Mantua, one of the best Italian art cities where spending a cultural weekend. Our sightseeing tour of Mantua starts with Palazzo del Te, conceived by Giulio Romano for Gonzaga Family. Palazzo del Te is a very …

Every year in spring, Vignola celebrates the flowering of the cherry tree. The land here is truly fertile! Vignola has always been blessed by a favourable climate, that is why all types of fruit and vegetable have grown here. But …

Italy’s most beautiful villages: so many to chose from and all very different from each other.  After taking a virtual trip to six Northern Italian borghi last week, in this second installment we’ll visit six borghi located in Central Italy: …

Portofino, in the region Liguria, is one of the most famous places in Italy all over the world, always full of tourists. When in Portofino, don’t hang only by the harbour, take a slow tour to the inland village and …

We are in Abano Terme at the President Hotel, a very famous SPA centre in the north east of Italy, Veneto region. This hot SPA water fell as rain at Napoleon’s time in Lessini Mountains area! Let’s take a “slow …

Are you fond of vintage car? The Stanguellini Museum is place you can’t miss, in the very centre of Modena, northern Italy. The greatest names in motoring used to live around here: first, Stanguellini and Ferrari, who were friends and …

We are in Montegrotto at the Grand Hotel Terme, a very famous SPA centre in the north of Italy, in the region Veneto. The SPA water flows down from Lessini mountains, it travels beneath the mountains at a depth of …

Palladian Villas tour. Villa Valmarana (so called “ai nani”) has got an extraordinary richness: Tiepolo’s frescoes! Tiepolo frescoed the villa with images inspired by five epic poems: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Jerusalem Delivered and The Raging Roland. Syusy …