Setting Up a Home Base near Rome, Italy for Language Immersion Travel

I am so excited to share considerations, planning, and lessons-learned from setting up our home base fo our 10-week language-immersion nella bella Italia. If I could do most of this on my own with...

Typical Dishes You Can't Miss While in Casentino, Tuscany

Tuscan cuisine, you know, is renowned all around the world, but today I want to introduce you to something more specific. Let's talk about typical products you should try while visiting Casentino...

Caravaggio, the Cursed Painter: The Deposition

The canvas of the Deposition of Christ, currently kept in the Vatican Painting Gallery, was painted by Caravaggio for a chapel of the Church of St. Mary in Vallicella in Rome. Following the Treaty of...

The Alphabet of The "Hidden Rome"

When the tourists arrive in Rome, they are immediately attracted by the magnetic energy of the Renaissance frescoes by Michelangelo and Raffaello, by the stunning architectures of the Baroque...

Hidden Rome: The Best Places You Don't Know

Today's journey takes us back around one of the most beautiful cities in the world, no less than my favourite city... Rome! My goal for the weekend was to reach places I still had not discovered. I...

Visiting Medici Library, Florence, Italy

By the time Columbus sailed, Lorenzo the Magnificent had assembled the world's largest library and built an addition to the Medici Palace in Florence to house it. Lorenzo the Magnificent was so...