Go now to the North and discover Florence and Tuscany, with its dry and rigorous atmospheres of Middle Age that fade in the Renaissance. Walking in these ancient villages you will revive life of those times even in the names of the streets that recall of artisans’, goldsmiths’ and leather’s workshops.

And exploring this sunny peninsula, in the shape of a boot, you will find, as in a dream, immersed in the sea, Venice, the “Serenissima” whose time stopped as in a spell in the 700’s, the century of its golden age and of its sudden decline. Strolling through its lanes you will think that you might even meet Mozart, Goethe or Goldoni.

If you go to west you will find fascinating small towns, siege of princes and important families: Mantua, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia where Renaissance and Baroque interlace continuously… Further westward you reach Milan, the trading centre and of Italian fashion, where the gothic spires of its Duomo dominate the palaces of the 800’s. Then go northward direction Turin walk the alleys of the first capital of Italy and arrive to the Egyptian Museum, one of the finest in scope outside Egypt. Traveling through Italy, in any direction, somewhere unexpected, you will find a sign of Unesco, informing you of another site considered patrimony of humanity.
Not unusual in the country that has the majority of those present in the world. This journey will fill up your eyes, but to satisfy your nose and mouth you can find everywhere even in the smallest village, off the beaten tracks, the real taste of food and wines, a delicious cuisine that joins the warmest flavors of the Mediterranean to the most delicate gastronomy of the plain and not only spaghetti, pizza and cappuccino, you will discover instead the taste of Arancini and the Ice cram, the Sicilian cassata, Apuleian Orecchiette and the Neapolitan Baba, the Jewish artichokes in the Ghetto of Rome, pasta with pajata, ribollita and caciucco in Tuscany, tortellini in Bologna covered by delicious parmesan cheese, the fegato alla Veneziana and Risotto with saffron, the trennette with pesto sauce in Genua and gianduiotti in Turin, and during its season you can’t miss for anything in the world meat and pasta dishes prepared with the white truffle d’Alba. Then to close in glory this parade of tastes the real expresso coffee and limoncello will provide the stuff of lasting memories.

If this journey has to be a joy for your ears you can loose your senses listening the medieval music concerts in the castles in Trentino or in the noble residences in Tuscany, trembling with the violins of baroque chamber music in the Venetian Villas and explode with joy listening the great works of Verdi and Puccini in the Arena of Verona. In the garden that inspired Wagner, in the Amalfi coast you will hear the echo of deep notes plunging in the sea and then enter in the temple of music, the Scala in Milan to listen Verdi and Toscanini.

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