TROPEA Tropea is the most beautiful village in Italy 2021 The Calabrian city has won the national competition ‘Borgo dei Borghi’ awarded every year by the national public television network Rai. Tropea, a Calabrian municipality in the province of Vibo Valentia, known as the ‘Pearl of the Tyrrhenian’, has beaten the competition of other 260 villages, of which 20 have reached the final stage!   Tropea seafront TROPEA IS SEA, ART, CULTURE, HISTORY AND GASTRONOMY! This lovely town, located in Calabria, is the most important center of the wonderful “Coast of the Gods“, and the legends tell that it was…

DOLOMITES NATIONAL PARK The Dolomites constitute the mountain chain of the Eastern Alps and are part of the 55 Italian sites included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. The Giau Pass The Unesco award-winning area includes three regions (Trentino Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia and five provinces (Trento, Bolzano, Belluno, Pordenone and Udine) with eighteen peaks that rise above 3,000 meters. The lake Carezza The Dolomites are famous for offering a magnificent panorama: imposing mountains made of rock walls, glaciers, majestic forests and enchanting valleys with their villages, where Italian, German and indigenous Ladino cultures are mixed!…

SIENA Siena is a city in the region of Tuscany. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 1995. Siena’s cathedral, the Duomo, begun in the 13th century, is one of the greater examples of the Italian Romanesque architecture. Its main façade was completed in 1380.  Unusual for a Christian cathedral its axis running north-south. This is because it was originally intended to be the largest cathedral in the world, with a north-south transept and an east-west aisle, as usual. The famous Gothic octagonal pulpit…

TURIN Turin is a town in the NW of Italy with about 905.000 inhabitants who achieve the quote of 2,200,000 added to the metropolitan area. The Mole Antonelliana and the Cathedral of San John Baptist (15th century), in which the Shroud is conserved, are considered the best architecture pieces. Moreover, Turin and the area around the city conserves the nice Residence of the House Savoy, UNESCO World Humanity Heritage. The Egyptian Museum houses one of the most important Egyptian collection of the world. However, one of the nicest place is the Royal Palace, built in the 17th century and residence…

BELLAGIO Bellagio, situated at the tip of the peninsula separating the lake’s two southern arms, with the Alps visible across the lake to the north. It is a picturesque village famous worldwide for its small streets, luxury hotels and villas and gardens. Bellagio is a commune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located on the Lake Como. It has long been famous for its setting at the intersection of the three branches of the Y-shaped lake, which is also known as Lario. Bellagio is situated at the tip of the peninsula separating the lake’s two…

AJACCIO Ajaccio is a French commune, prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud, and head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse (capital city of Corsica). It is also the largest settlement on the island. Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio in 1769 in the Casa Buonaparte, which is now open to the public. Other dedications to him in the city include Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport. Ajaccio is located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, 210 nautical miles (390 km) southeast of Marseille. The commune occupies a sheltered position at the foot of wooded hills on the northern shore of the Gulf of…

ASSISI   Assisi is a town and comune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It was the birthplace of St. Francis, who founded the Franciscan religious order in the town in 1208, and St. Clare (Chiara d’Offreducci), the founder of the Poor Sisters, which later became the Order of Poor Clares after her death. Now the site of many a pilgrimage, Assisi is linked in legend with its native son, St. Francis. The gentle saint founded the Franciscan order and shares honors with St. Catherine of Siena as…

COMO Como is a city in the Italian region of Lombardy, 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of Milan. Situated at the southern tip of the south-west arm of Lake Como, it is the capital of the province of Como. The hills surrounding the current location of Como were inhabited in prehistoric times, at least since the Bronze Age. Remains of settlements are still present on the wood covered the hills in the South West of the town. People who inhabited these settlements were known as the Orobii, a Celtic tribe. Napoleon descended into Lombardy in 1796 and ruled it until…

CINQUE TERRE The Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coast of the Riviera to the west of the city of La Spezia, in its province, in the Liguria region of Italy including five villages, “The Five Lands”: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. Cinque TerreThe coastline, the five villages, and the surrounding hillsides are all encapsulated in the Cinque Terre national park. The Cinque Terre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.   Due to the geographical and anthropomorphic features of the territory in which they are found, they represent one of the main tourist attractions of the…