Last January The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies declared 2018 the Year of Italian food in the World. The fact that Italian Food is part […]
We’re happy to inform you that our new website is working! If you have any trouble in finding the right page on Google search, please just click on the menu above! Grazie! More info and […]
Christmas holidays in Italy: time to relax for us and to start planning the next tourist season! Our off-season:Olive picking As you all left our region, beginning of November, we picked our olives at our […]
The tufa flat rock of Orvieto from a vineyard When they reached the Central Italy, in the sixth century B.C, the Etruscans noticed this isolated plateau of volcanic rock rising up over the plain […]
Dear Friends and Followers, 2016 has been a peculiar year for Umbria: in the first 9 months tourism has increased around the 4% [+3,96 arrivals*] in our region, data that clearly show the success of […]
From next Friday 20 to Sunday May 22, 2016 Todi Fiorita, flower and gardening exhibition – organized by the local association Verdetodi and the City Hall of Todi – is back in town! The event […]
It is not the first time I write on Sagrantino wine on this blog. I think that in several years of blogging and touring wineries with travelers, the amount of ink and words that I’ve […]
At the end of this week, on the 31st October, the Universal Exhibition 2015 held in Milano, EXPO2015 is going to close its gates forever. Opened last May 1st, during this six-month period, Milano has […]
#terrediconfine Terre di Confine, borderlands could be an unusual word to define the towns of Orvieto and Todi. Orvieto and Todi are in Umbria. They are part of the same region, they share the same […]
Spring has arrived in Umbria, better calling it “pre-Summer”, thanks to the very pleasant temperatures and stable weather of the last weeks. Starting from this month Umbria is opening its long season of Summer Festivals, […]
Post updated on February 2017 (on Vintage 2014) Post updated February 2018 (on Vintage 2015) _________________________________________ Original post: notes on Vintage 2011 Sagrantino, the famed red wine of Umbria, has its days of glory each […]
This post has actually been inspired by a recent article published on the American website Dream of Italy. Here the author pointed out “some of the popular misconceptions about visiting the land of la dolce […]