When you think about the castles of Lombardy, the Sforza Castle in Milan, with its majesty and its beautiful park, immediately comes to mind. In this article, however, I'll tell you about another castle, not widely know, but equally important and beautiful: the Visconti castle ...

Pienza is located in the center of the Val d'Orcia in the province of Siena. This incredibly beautiful valley is one of the most photographed landscapes in the entire world. Pienza is often defined as the "ideal city" or the "utopian city", as it represents one of ...

Puglia is not just Alberobello, Lecce, and Brindisi. Puglia is much more; Puglia is Salento. Salento is the heel of the boot-shaped Italian peninsula, located between the Province of Lecce and parts of Brindisi and Taranto.  Salento is the deep color of the earth and the ...

There is a village 40 km from Palermo where no time machine is needed to go back in time. We are talking about Caccamo, whose castle is one of the largest and best-preserved Norman castles in Sicily and Italy.  We are on the top of Mount San ...

Immersed in the lush, green hills of Umbria just 15 km from Perugia lies Torgiano. The origin of this ancient hamlet, surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, most likely dates back to the Etruscan period, as testified by several artifacts. A hypothesis further supported by its ...

"For me, trekking means to comune with nature. This is why I walk slowly; I hardly ever rush. Nature, for me, is not a gym. I go to see, to feel, with all of my senses. And so my spirit enters the trees, the meadows, ...

A winding road climbs the mountain, gradually becoming narrower and narrower, the colors of the changing landscape, passing from the warm shades of red and orange to the cold ones of green, white and gray. The road seems to never end, you have the impression of ...

"The best-kept secret in Europe" is how Belgian naturalist John Bouquet defined the Valli Cupe, the "Grand Canyon" of Calabria. Situated in the territory of Sersale halfway between the Ionian Sea and the Presila Catanzarese, Valli Cupe was discovered just a few years ago by a ...

Every now and again, you need to unwind, get away from the chaos and decompress in a quiet place: a new destination with a wake of colors and scents that overcome and refresh you. On this particular occasion, we're in the Friuli region, in the ...

For a long time, Genoa wasn't very well known. Perhaps viewed with suspicion by Italians, but even more by tourists who considered the city little more than a link between the Riviera di Levante and the Riviera di Ponente and vice versa.  Over the last few decades, ...