Experience
Photos, useful information and, coming soon, downloadable pdf documents on towns and regions I have personally visited in the Bel Paese. Venite! Experience the Italian dream with me.
Lucca
With its Renaissance walls Lucca is probably the most beautiful of Tuscany’s provincial capitals. Famous also as the birthplace of the composer Giacomo Puccini and the 18th century Grand Tour painter Pompeo Batoni. Enter the Lucca experience.
Turin
Italy’s first capital after unification. Famous as the home to Fiat and Juventus. There is so much to discover about Turin, my adopted home in Italy. Come and discover it with me as I play host to my aunt and uncle during a 48 hour break they took here. Enter the Turin experience.
Milan – Duomo
“What a wonder it is! So grand, so solemn, so vast! And yet so delicate, so airy, so graceful! A very world of solid weight, and yet it seems …a delusion of frostwork that might vanish with a breath!…”
Find out who wrote these words and enjoy scenes from Milan’s world famous Duomo. Enter the Duomo experience.
BikeMi – It’s as Easy as Riding a Bike!
Late 2008 Milan introduced a bike sharing scheme. This is nothing new, many cities in Italy already have one. Now after several months it is very popular, especially with workers in the morning and evening – key bike stations need to be constantly replenished to avoid shortages. Initially there were about 100 of these stations and 900 bikes. Now there are many more.
Palio di Asti – the Oldest Palio in Italy
A Palio is an annual historic contest between the neighbourhoods of a town usually involving horseracing or other medieval sports. Everybody has heard of the Palio in Siena, but did you know that the oldest one is that of Asti?
