NOT OF THIS WORLD

«Here, in this corner of the World which is not of this World, where each glance is emotion and each thought is dream, here you can.»
- Anonymus

TIMELESS BEAUTY

«Everything here emanates greatness, taste, humanity, purity and beauty at the utmost degree. I do believe I would be happier here than in any other place.»
- Klemens von Metternich

THE CELESTIAL MIRROR

«And then, the Umbrian God, found an amazing blue for the sky and an even more beautiful color to paint the distances and the mountains. For this reason, Umbria is so miraculously blue; the bluest of all the land.»
- Karel Čapek

AND SINKING IN THIS SEA IS SWEET TO ME

« Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.»
- Gustave Flaubert

IN THE SHADOW OF AMELIA

« Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.»
- Anthony Lewis

A NEOCLASSICAL GEM IN CHIANTI

«There is nothing fundamental to be found in art after Phidias and Raffaello, but there is always something to do, even after them, to preserve the cult of truth and perpetuate the tradition of beauty.»
- Jean-Auguste D. Ingres

LAND OF WINE

«Chianti, like the rising sun, possession gains, and drives the mist of dullness from the brains. The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, and views of gaiety and gladness rise.»
- Peter Lamberg

A CONTEMPLATIVE RETREAT

«Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow you cast upon it.»
- Dean Koontz

A GEM IN THE HEART OF NAPLES

«Naples, what a strange city: to live it to its fullest we should erase all the surprises it offers you day after day, but then it would no longer be the same...»
- Giovanni Scafoglio

A FLORENTINE HIDEOUT

«Through these old streets I wander dreamily; around me Florence sweeps her busy tide of life»
- William Leighton

A LAKESIDE PARADISE

«The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.»
- Alfred Austin

THE ARCHITECTURE OF CHOICES

«The Post-Modern Age is a time of incessant choosing. It's an era when no orthodoxy can be adopted without self-consciousness and irony, because all traditions seems to have some validity.»
- Charles Jencks

HEAVEN ON EARTH

«For the people of Amalfi, who will go to Heaven, judgment day will be a day like any other...»
- Renato Fucini

THE PROMISED LAND

«It is clear the God of the Jews didn’t know Apulia and Capitanata, otherwise it wouldn’t have gifted his people Palestine as the Promised Land.»
- Frederick II

A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

«Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. »
- Virginia Woolf

BUONTALENTI'S LEGACY

«Among all the foreign cities, Florence is the one I prefer. The longer you live here, the more you find yourself loving it. There is something so welcoming here that I feel like I were home.»
- Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij

TUSCAN BEAUTY

«The Tuscan countryside was created as a masterwork by a refined people. […] It is incredible how these men built their own countryside with beauty as their sole purpose.»
- Henri Desplanques

HIDDEN FLORENCE SANCTUARY

«I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.»
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

THE WATERWAYS OF MILAN

«Yes, Milan is really beautiful, my friend, and believe me when I say that sometimes you really need a strong will to resist its seduction and carry on with your work.»
- Giovanni Verga

CITY OF CANALS

«Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.»
- Italo Calvino

IN THE SHADOW OF THE DOME

«And when I thought of Florence, it was like a miracle city embalmed and like a corolla, because it was called the city of lilies and its cathedral, St. Mary of the Flowers.»
- Marcel Proust

BETWEEN SEA AND MOUNTAINS

«All the burdens and efforts are repaid by the beautiful view one can enjoy from such a height: the first sight of Genoa and the Mediterranean Sea from that point leaves no room for regret.»
- Lady Sydney Morgan

A BALCONY IN VENICE

«At the break of dawn, stars are filled with envy when they see the beauties of Venice emerging from the mist.»
- Mieczysław Kozłowski

OF MADNESS AND BEAUTY

«To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius»
- Alexander Herzen

LIFE IS A MOSAIC

«The course of our life is very much like a mosaic: you cannot figure it out and evaluate it until you watch it from a distance.»
- Arthur Schopenhauer

A CASTLE FOR THE KING OF WINES

«The Langhe is a paradise, a giardino: pears, apples, pomegranates, chestnuts. And wine, everywhere, wine: Barbera, Bonarda, Dolcetto, and the king, Nebbiolo, the king of all grapes.»
- Matt Goulding

GAZING AT THE HORIZON

«The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.»
- Ralph W. Emerson

A CASTLE FIT FOR A KING

Danilo showcases this castle, an incredible building with over a thousand years of history which saw the passing of Arduin of Ivrea, Otto III of Germany and the Portuguese architect Alfredo de Andrade.

THE FOOD OF THE GODS

Let's go truffle hunting with Danilo in Tuscany. As Alexandre Dumas stated in the 19th century, «to tell the story of truffle is to tell the story of mankind».