Somewhere between a church and a private chapel sits a category of Venetian building most visitors never learn the word
Somewhere along the Strada del Prosecco, the winding road connecting Conegliano to Valdobbiadene, the hills fold themselves into a natural
Walk along almost any minor canal in Venice, away from the Grand Canal’s palazzi, and you’ll notice something that would
New visitors to Venice usually arrive expecting one boat: the gondola. Within about ten minutes of actually being here, that
Most visitors driving through the Prosecco Hills toward Valdobbiadene are chasing vineyards and wine cellars. A short detour north, tucked
Venice trains you to look down, or straight ahead — at the pavement for the next nizioleto, at a doorway,
It’s easy to assume Venice has always looked the way it looks today — pale stone arches curving over green
Somewhere among the steepest terraced vineyards of the Prosecco Hills, in a hamlet so small it counts exactly four year-round
Stand in almost any campo in Venice and look past the marble doorways and the Istrian stone trim, and you’ll
Most Americans planning a trip to Venice have never heard of Lake Garda, and that’s a genuine oversight, because it
Long before Venice had street numbers, or even reliable street names, its shopkeepers solved a much older problem: how do
Peschiera del Garda occupies one specific, genuinely unrepeatable spot on the map: it’s exactly where Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake,
Ask most visitors to name a Venetian bridge and you’ll get the same two or three answers: the Rialto, the
I’ll say this plainly, the same way I say it to every guest standing in the courtyard on Via Cappello:
Every visitor to Venice eventually has the same experience: phone out, blue dot spinning uselessly in the middle of a
Almost two thousand years ago, Roman engineers built an amphitheater on the edge of Verona to host gladiatorial combat. Today,
Most people come to Venice looking down — into canals, through doorways, along the pavement for the next nizioleto sign.
You enter through a tall archway cut into a medieval wall, cross the courtyard of what used to be a
Stand at the right spot on the Grand Canal and you can watch four centuries of Venetian taste go by
Of everything Andrea Palladio built across his career, one villa outside Vicenza has been copied more than any other building
I'm Igor Scomparin. I have been a Venice graduated and licensed tour guide since 1997. I will take you through the secrets, the history and the art of one of the most beautiful cities in the World.
