DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will attend the Condé Nast Traveler Exchange – The Travel Specialists Summit at Terranea resort - California from February 5th to February 7th 2012 where it will present its qualified range of travel products.

Discover Your Italy designs Luxury Tours, Private Journeys, Small Group Tours, Wine Tours,  Honeymoons and Special Interest Tours to Italy with the goal to help travelers choose “their Italy” - the Italy they wish to discover and experience. Whatever the travel requirements, Discover Your Italy expertise will find the Best Italy Travel solution!

The Conde Nast Travel Specialists Summit is a unique, dynamic  forum where the nation’s most powerful high-yield travel specialists connect one-on-one with the most respected hotels and resorts, tour operators, airlines, cruise lines and destination management companies in the industry. The Travel Specialists Summit is quite simply the most important and exclusive travel forum in the world.

Discover Your Italy has spent years improving the concept of luxury small group travel in Italy. Today, discerning travelers don’t want to be constrained by a group of strangers or set itineraries: we realize that there are often times when travelers prefer the option of private travel with their own travel companions and departure date. But that is often a difficult process: designing the itinerary from scratch, booking the most charming hotels, selecting the best guides and negotiating the right rates for the services.

For that reason, we introduced our Luxury Italy Private Journeys, a selection of ready to book itineraries which combine the luxury services of Discover Your Italy, with our expertise in planning Luxury Italy Vacations, the possibility to depart on any date and in any number of travelers (from one to as many as you like). Our Luxury Italy Private Journeys are so successful that we continuously create new itineraries across Italy.

In a world of run of the mill travel options, Discover Your Italy designs luxury private tours to Italy, handcrafted to fit travelers’ expectations with a sense of individuality and style in every detail. Travelers will have their private journey to Italy,  without the burden of doing all the planning themselves. Years of experience in designing complex itineraries in Italy for demanding travelers enables Discover Your Italy to handcraft the precise journey they have in mind for travel with family, friends or special ones.

Discover Your Italy continuously does the intelligence on the field and takes care of all organization details. Customers just need to relax, enjoy the tour and bring back unforgettable memories of what they have experienced while in Italy.

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will attend the International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC) in Perugia - Italy from January 30th to February 2nd 2012 where it will present its LUXURY ITALY WINE TOURS.

Discover Your Italy designs Luxury Tours, Private Journeys, Small Group Tours, Wine Tours and Honeymoons to Italy with the goal to help travelers choose “their Italy” - the Italy they wish to discover and experience. Whatever the travel requirements, Discover Your Italy deep expertise will find the Best Italy Travel solution! Discover Your Italy’s strength is the deep understanding of and love for Italy. We will be able to accommodate all travel expectations about sites not to miss and we will surprise travelers with advice on special places to visit they probably have never heard of. We will design the best Italy travel solution taking care of all the details, and directly managing 24/7 the organization on the ground as we are in Italy and have an extensive network of selected local partners throughout Italy we personally know and trust who can guarantee outstanding level of service.

IWINETC 2012 conference and workshop will bring together wine and travel lovers and professionals from around the world to discuss, reflect on and develop their ideas regarding  wine and culinary tourism. The conference involves a three-day program of over 40 talks, presentations, panel discussions and workshops.  It also gives delegates a chance to taste wines from around the world and to meet leading wine and travel figures and writers and exchange ideas with fellow professionals from all sectors of wine and culinary travel.

Discover Your Italy Italy wine tours are unique opportunities to travel to Italy, combining the visit to breathtaking locations, with the discovery of one of the most important traits of Italian culture: wine & food. We design tours which are anything but usual. All our tours include visits and activities that allow travelers to fully experience and enjoy the immense wine & food treasures of Italy. Our mission is to guide travelers to discover the excellent wines of Italy by selecting only the best producers, the most enchanting wineries and by linking them into an itinerary with first class service. We continuously do the intelligence on the field and take care of all organization details. Customers just need to enjoy the tour and bring back unforgettable memories of what their eyes, nose and mouth have experienced while in Italy.

Basilica of Santa Croce: Frescos Up Close

The Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, is one of the most beautiful and renowned churches in all of Italy. Built in 1385 the Basilica shows gothic architecture at it’s best and is a great sight from the outside. Inside it offers breathtaking Frescos by Agnolo Gaddi, which are truly unique to this church. The main Frescos are in the Cappella Castellani. The Frescos have a narrative cycle, which visually tells stories of St. Anthony, St. John and St. Nicola. The church is keeping its label of “under restoration” until May of 2012, and oddly enough that is the reason why you should visit the church! Scaffolds are up around the church and guided tours on the scaffolds are being offered to give visitors a better view of Gaddi’s masterpieces. This truly unique opportunity allows visitors to see the Frescos up close and be to explore all of the intricacies. This is a limited offer and an offer that one should not miss out on because these are truly some of the best works of religious art in the whole world, to see them up close is truly a breathtaking sight.

The scaffolds will be open for tours until May of 2012.

For a video on this opportunity, click here.