Category Archives: Travel Tips

Aosta – a look at the alpine city of arts

Jul 29 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

Aosta Valley is located in the outermost northwest of Italy, bordering on France and Switzerland. The small region is known for its natural beauty and tourism, the numerous regional and national parks, and the prestigious, mostly cross-border ski regions. In … Continue reading →

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The Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene

Jun 25 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

Italy exports vast quantities of Prosecco every year – around 90 million bottles, to be precise. Originally referring to a grape variety until the tail end of 2009, Prosecco now denotes a specific place of origin. The growing areas of … Continue reading →

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Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century

Jun 25 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

If you were to look at Ivrea in Piedmont, situated at the northern edge of the Po Valley between Turin and the Aosta Valley, from above, you would notice how the river Dora Baltea pretty much splits it in two. … Continue reading →

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The art of making Neapolitan pizza

Jun 25 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

By now you are more than familiar with the wide variety of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy, know many different natural and cultural landmarks and areas. Actually, there is a third list we have not been talking a lot … Continue reading →

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UNESCO World Heritage Site Val d’Orcia

May 28 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

A new era began in the Val d’Orcia region when the city state Siena defeated the feudal house of Aldobrandeschi. Siena didn’t only expand its capital – rapidly and vastly – it also placed great emphasis on the representative nature … Continue reading →

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Late baroque towns of the Val di Noto

May 14 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

A destructive earthquake struck the Val di Noto in south-eastern Sicily on the evening of 11 January 1693. The result was truly devastating – around 60,000 casualties, 70 destroyed towns and villages across an area of 5,600 km² and powerful … Continue reading →

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Places of power of the Lombards in Italy

Apr 29 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

Calling the fall of the Western Roman Empire a time of great changes and upheavals might just be the teensiest bit of an understatement. Numerous peoples tried their luck over subsequent decades and centuries, the ancient Migration Period was in … Continue reading →

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Historic centre of the city of Pienza

Apr 15 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

How does a town become an ideal town? Opinions differ greatly on this matter and changed just as much over the course of centuries. The Renaissance and humanism most certainly left a massive mark on this discourse, and that’s something … Continue reading →

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The fossils of Monte San Giorgio

Mar 26 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

A brief trip up to an altitude of 1,097 m at the border between Italy and Switzerland unearths divine views. Monte San Giorgio in the Lugano Prealps in Canton Ticino, nestled between the two southern arms of the equally splendid … Continue reading →

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Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

Mar 12 2020

Category: Travel Tips Author: Alexander Wagner

Did you know that parts of Sicily were populated as early as the Bronze Age? The settlement history of the island in the southernmost part of Italy can be traced back thousands, even tens of thousands of years. Even today … Continue reading →

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