Author: Tommaso De Poi

Venice Carnival began in the 15th century but the tradition can be traced back to the beginning of the 14th Century.  Story tells that in the past  even princes from all over Europe came to Venice  and in the Carnival period no differentiation could be made between nobility and the common people.

Very popular with both foreign and and Italian travellers, the delightful Cinque terre – literally translated “the five lands” – is an extraordinary area offering scenarios among the most  charming in Italy. Five villages makes up the Cinque Terre: Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore.

Year 2010 offers  you the opportunity to live a unique experience in Italy. If you loose it, you have to wait till year 2015 to take it again: as a matter of fact, only every five years, the village of Sordevolo –  not far from Torino – transform itself in a  extraordinary open air theatre […]

From Naples a curious news: in an underwear-shop located in the downtown,  it is possible to buy  for € 50,00 an original lingerie cloth. So far the invention is  reserved to women.

CICERO No. 2 – Anno MMX Introduction of Italy Febbraio 2010 – Vol. 1 Dear  Trips2Italy’s Friends, speaking about the month of February our thoughts immediately go to the most  amusing  event of the year: the Carnival. If Rio’s Carnival is  surely the most crazy among the Carnival all over the world, it is surely […]

CICERO No. 1 – Anno MMX Introduction of Italy Gennaio 2010 – Vol. 1 Dear Friend of Italy, I really hope you will welcome with pleasure and sincere interest this first issue of “Cicero”, our Newsletter.

Although it is an UNESCO site, Alberobello is unfortunately rather unknown. In a place of rolling green hills, dotted with almond and olive trees, not far from Bari and Taranto (Apulia), you cannot miss visiting the town, named for the primitive forests of Arboris belli, which once covered the area, where over 1000 trulli mass […]

Rome hosts till April 2010 the exhibition dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci, the universal talent of Italian Renaissance, and the embodiment of the spirit of his age. An eclectic man, he was engineer, mathematician, anatomist, painter and architect, who wrote and drew all his life long. 

Dolomites are one of the most dramatic spots and a mecca for mountains-lovers. They take their name from the French geologist De Dolomieu, who first studied and identified the composition of the sedimentary limestone. The Dolomites are an ancient coral reef that, over a 100 million years ago, were covered with a tropical forest and […]

Venice attracts  more visitors then usual in September. In fact, this is the time for the historic regatta (regata storica), a very popular festival, held  on the fist Sundays of the month. The Regatta is probably the main event in  the Venice calendar. A spectacular procession  of traditional boats decorated in 16th century style with […]

Archaeological finds between the 6th and 3rd millennium BC attest to the presence of a population of settlers and hunters that once occupied this area. Celts invaded the region and gave the area a name meaning “capital”, it then became known as Alba Pompeia.

The Abruzzo‘s morphological variety of its landscape brings together two separate environments that do not mix very easily: on the one hand there is the seaside in all its remarkable beauty and, on the other, the fascinating charm of its mountains; two quite contrasting landscapes brought together by gently rolling hills that blend together tradition […]

Arnaldo Fortini was the first to identify this house between the churches of San Nicolò and San Paolo as the paternal house of Saint Francis, a conclusion to which he was led through his extensive research into surviving records of the periods.