Italian Tour Operator DISCOVER YOUR ITALY exhibiting at LUXURY TRAVEL EXPO in Las Vegas – December 1-3, 2009

We are a professional Tour Operator specialized in offering luxury travel packages to Italy. Our original Italy Tours will show our travellers the real Italy not only through the sites, art and history but more importantly through the people and their traditions: the Italy of the Italian people. Our motto: “We will show you OUR Italy … you will Discover YOUR Italy” !

Consistently with our mission, we work with top luxury Travel Agents worldwide. In order to meet new potential Business Partners, co-founder Daniela Mencarelli will be in Las Vegas (NV) from December 1st to December 3rd 2009 for LUXURY TRAVEL EXPO 2009: the industry’s largest gathering of luxury travel professionals in the USA. During the tradeshow, Daniela will be delighted to welcome all American travel professionals at DISCOVER YOUR ITALY BOOTH #551 and discuss the unique features of our luxury travel programs to Italy.

The Trade Show will be the opportunity for launching our 4 new categories of luxury tours to Italy on top of our core Luxury Small Groups Tours to Italy:

Luxury Private Tours to Italy: customized, unique, exclusive private holidays in Italy, tailored to fit customers’ expectations and guaranteeing a sense of individuality and style in every detail.

Luxury Italy Honeymoons: unforgettable honeymoons in the most enchanting and romantic locations of Italy including Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, Cinque Terre and some exclusive out of the beaten track destinations.

Luxury Italy Wine Tours: a unique and original opportunity to travel to Italy, combining the visit to breathtaking locations and incredible art sites, with the discovery of one of the most important traits of Italian culture: wine & food.

Luxury Italy Pre-Post Cruise Extensions: no matter which Italian port travellers are departing from or arriving in (Venice, Civitavecchia, Naples, Sorrento, Livorno, Genoa, Taormina, etc.), we are  experienced to provide a wide variety of services in order to give cruise passengers the opportunity to spend a few more days in Italy and discover cities, locations, sights they may not have the chance to visit during the cruise.

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MAURO STACCIOLI. Sites of Experience - Volterra (Tuscany)

September 13, 2009toSeptember 30, 2010

Volterra

“Museums Exhibitions” from September 13th till November 8th 2009

“Site Installations” from September 2009 till September 2010

Mauro Staccioli is an Italian contemporary “minimalist” sculptor.

Contemporary Art in Voletrra

His monumental operas are realized with grey or brow concrete, steel and marble.

His “fare arte” (art making) main characteristic is to introduce contemporary sculptures in the ancient contest of italian urban space.

His unique art symbolizes the challenge in the panorama of contemporary art: the eternal discussion between the ancient and the new.

Through contemporary signs, Staccioli wants to rediscover  the identity of a country, Italy, whose roots are buried in a past that has moulded the towns, countryside and the development of society.

Volterra, the Tuscan town where Staccioli was born seventy years ago, is tributing an acknowledgement to the work of this great artist, by organizing an incredible event that involvies museums, streets, urban environment. The final result is a sort of big “wedding ring”  made of art installations along and around the urban perimeter of Volterra.

The whole exhibition realizes a tight link between the artist, his making art and the earth where Staccioli has grown up.

20 monumental installation, respresenting Mauro Staccioli “Sites of Experience” are set out in the landscape, as well as in historic places and piazzas.

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“LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Making Words” - Venice

June 7, 2009toNovember 22, 2009

53rd International Art Exhibition - Venice - Giardini and Arsenale - from June 7th to November 22nd, 2009

BIENNALE VENEZIA

Sunday June 7th,  the 53rd International Art Exhibition opens to the public. This exceptional event is located in the two main exposition areas in the Giardini and the Arsenale  as well as in various other locations around the city.

In the beautiful Giardini area will be hosted the 29 Pavilions of the participating countries. Set amidst tall trees, the pavilions themselves form a sort of anthology of important twentieth-century architecture. While the Italian Pavilion is located in the Arsenale area: the renovated and enlarged Italian Pavilion will overlook the adjacent Giardino delle Vergini and will be one of the main innovations of this year edition. The Pavilion will also host a special exhibition within the exhibition, “COLLAUDI. Omaggio a F. T. Marinetti“.

The theme of the 53rd International art Exhibition is “Making Words” and wants to emphasize the process of artisitic creation, as each artist with his work of art wants to represent a vision of the world. Works from 90 artists from all-over the word and all forms of artistic expression are represented: painting and drawing, sculpture, photography, video and film, installation art, performance and a live parade.

A great number of collateral events will make the visit –if possible- even richer.

And, of course, the magic city of Venice, where art and culture are the tissue of the city and its life, will be the superb scenery for this great event.

For any traveler interested in Classic as well as Contemporary Art, a visit to Venice and the International Art Exhibition are a “must see”.

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“DIVUS VESPASIANUS. Two thousand years of the Gens Flavia” - Rome

March 27, 2009toJanuary 10, 2010

Roman sculpture from I century bc

Roman sculpture from I century bc

Rome - The Colosseum - from March 27th 2009 till January 10th 2010

The city of Ancient Rome, the imperial one, still exists today under the eyes of all visitors. Very often from the underground of the city the ancient magnificence of the Roman Empire reappears with evident traces of the great power and fabulous prosperity of the lords who ruled it.

Vespasianus was the founder of the Gens Flavia and a man of a great importance during the years of his empire (69–79 AD). He was considerably open minded in relation to social policies: for example in terms of town planning, he returned to roman citizens some public urban areas, dispossessed during the reign of Nero. So, Vespasianus is to be considered as the promoter of the economic and social restoration of the whole empire which under his reign experienced a proverbial period of serenity. As a consequence of that, he was one of the most loved emperor of the roman history.

The exhibition, staged inside the Colosseum, is divided in six parts and takes also place in other areas of the eternal city including some monuments generally closed to public: the Curia, in the Foro Romano, where the main subject of the exhibition is the “imperial cult”; the Criptoportico neroniano, on the Palatino Hill, where remains of the imperial palace are displayed.

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