Category: Itineraries

Several itineraries throughout Italy: art cities, villages, countryside. Artistic, hiking, sport or food-and-wine itineraries…

Genoa Science Festival celebrates the 15oth anniversary of Italian Unification

From October, 21st to November, 2nd 2011, Genova will host the 9th edition of the Science Festival, this year entitled “150 e oltre” (meaning “150 years and above”) in order to pay homage to the anniversary of Italian unification.

As a matter of fact, the festival’s aim is to celebrate 150 years of national unification by with a wide array of hints, experiences and excellences of the recent past able to project knowledge into the future, into the next 150 years.

Far from just being a mere historical celebration, Genoa Science Festival is seeking

41st International Theater Festival in Venice

Are you ready? The International Theater Festival will be held in Venice from 10th to 16th October 2011 within the framework of Venice Biennale.

It’s a kind of festival-workshop. The newly-appointed Catalan director Àlex Rigola has imagined the festival as an “agora of theatre”, inviting the leading personalities on the international scene –directors, choreographers, artists, architects and set designers, experts in video-writing and lighting creators – to make Venice

51st Genoa International Boat Show, 1-9 October 2011

From 1st to 9th October 2011, 51st edition of Genoa International Boat Show will be held in the Ligurian capital to offer the best of seamanship world.

The exhibition areas of this edition will be the Pavilions C, D, S, Blue Pavilion, Mondoinvela Pavilion, new Marina, Marina Uno, Tensile Structure, yards and outdoor areas.

And now, let’s have a look at some numbers: 1,330 exhibitors coming from all over the globe, 2,000 boats on display (450 of which in the water) and over 450 new models.

Also this year, there will be many side events accompanying

The Capital of Fashion hosting Milano Moda Donna – Spring-Summer 2012

From 21st to 27th September 2011, the appointment with exclusive pret-à-porter fashion world comes back in Milan. The fashion collections for season Spring-Summer 2012 will be presented at Milano Moda Donna.

Every year, the world-renowned and glamorous Milan Fashion Week represents an important catwalk for the fashion world and offers the opportunity to take part in a rich calendar counting over 230 fashion shows

About Milan presents a New Section fully dedicated to Leonardo’s Last Supper: Book your Tickets Here

About Milan, the online tourist guide to the city of Milan, from years offers many information and useful tips about how to spend your time in Milan at best, enjoying all the cultural, artistic and architectonic treasures of the city once there and providing also many useful maps, phone numbers and addresses.

This practical travel guide to Milan also provides users a wide range of tips on guided tours and the chance

The Tuscan City of Carrara celebrates with Festivals and Septemberfest

From Friday 9th to Sunday 11th September 2011, the 6th edition of “Con-Vivere”, the festival of philosophy, comes back in Carrara with the main theme “Bianco, rosso e verde” (the colours of Italian flag: “White, Red and Green”). This because the whole event will focus on the Italian Unity, analyzed from every side by many journalists, historians, economists.

This year, the festival will have as usual a rich program: it schedules 14 meetings, 4 concerts, 2 painting exhibitions, besides many book shops and restaurants open and beautiful squares crowded by people.

The Italian band “Elio e le storie tese”

Historical Parade and Historical Regatta 2011 in Venice

On Sunday September, 4th 2011, the traditional and very ancient Historical Regatta comes back in Venice with the typical Venetian rowing, a unique discipline born in Venice hundreds years ago.

The historical Regatta is celebrated every first Sunday of September and it’s one of the most appreciated events by Venetians since it is the most important moment of the agonistic season of Venetian rowing clubs. It took place for the first time on 10th January 1315 during Giovanni Soranzo’s reign, in order to pay homage

All the main Factory Outlet Shopping Centers in Lombardy and Milan

Lombardy, the region hosting the fashionable and glamorous city of Milan, is one of Italy’s richest and most populated regions. Lombardy is also a very important agricultural center and a leader figure in industrial and commercial sectors, thanks to the presence of the city of Milan as an international center of business and fashion.

As already mentioned, this region (along with Tuscany) has always been an important center for textile production; Italian high-quality textile made Italian fashion brands famous and appreciated all over the world. The mark of “Made in Italy” is today a synonym of quality and

Count Down begins for 8th edition of Festival della Mente in Sarzana

The 8th edition of Festival della Mente – Europe 1st festival to be dedicated to creativity and creative processes – will come back in Sarzana from September, 2nd to 4th 2011.

As usual, in this year’s program we find a lot of original, interesting events for an audience which every year is getting larger and larger: just think that past editions of the festival were attended by about 40,000 people.

Such an original festival entirely devoted to culture and creativity will crowd again the streets of the historical center of Sarzana, a little medieval city

Rificolona 2011: Florence keeps on celebrate traditional events

Summer is coming to an end, but events keep on going on! As a matter of fact, Florence comes back to celebrate one of its several ancient traditions dedicated to history and new generations: Festa della Rificolona!

Such a traditional festival, much-loved by all citizens and tourists of Florence, dates back to 17th century, when many farmers with their wives used to come to the city for celebrating the nativity of the Virgin at the