Spending a weekend in Sicily is not only possible, but it's also a necessity! And it is even more beautiful than what you would expect. At least for me, a native Umbrian, Sicily has been a recent discovery and now that I've been, I'm totally ...

In the Chieti province of the Abruzzo region, the Castle of Roccascalegna is majestically perched upon a rocky mountain. Like all castles, it too has a story to tell about its mysterious past. The Village and Castle Roccascalegna is a small village that for centuries has been ...

Somewhere around the 1950s, the farmers of the Brescia valleys began leaving their homes and a life of hard work in the fields and pouring into the city of Brescia and other larger towns of Upper Garda. Only a few "philanthropists" and true mountaineers kept ...

To better understand any place it is important to consider its origin, its history. Tens of millions of years ago where the current Apuan Alps dominate, there was a sea. The thrust of the continental masses in a continuous, very slow movement, caused horizontal layers ...

Walking through the green hills of Montecchio Maggiore, in the province of Vicenza, you'll come face to face with the two castles that embodied a legend. They stand close together on the hill. Restoration began in the 1930s on the two fortresses that have been ...

If you are in Milan, your itinerary must include a visit to the church of San Bernardino alle Ossa. To reach it, if you arrive from Via Festa del Perdono (Missori M3), where the headquarter of the University of Milan is located, go straight on and ...

Each city has its symbolic monument. If you take Corso Strada Nuova, one of the main streets of the center of Pavia, and you go along to the end of the street, you will arrive at what Skyscanner, the international search engine of flights, has ...