Umbria Jazz

Since 1973, the city of Perugia has hosted one of the most prestigious music festivals in all of Italy: Umbria Jazz. Umbria Jazz started off as a small jazz festival for jazz enthusiasts but has since drawn critical acclaim and evolved into a very popular music festival, which has attracted many musicians from different backgrounds to attend. Guests from the past include: Miles Davis, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Elton John and many more. Even those who are not too fond of jazz can find something that they will enjoy especially since the festival lasts ten days and has various musical events going on throughout each day.

This year the event will take place starting on July 8 through July 17. Guests this season will include: classic jazz talent Harbie Hancock, the electrifying Santana, the eternal B.B. King and rock n’ roll talent Prince.

The Following is a list of events that will take place on the Main Stage.

July 8: Caro Emerald, Dee Alexander

July 9: “Tribute to Miles”

July 10: Hiromi the Trio Project, Ahmad Jamal

July 11: Branford Marsalis Duo & Quartet, European Jazz Ensemble

July 12: Santana

July 13: Liza Minnelli

July 14: Sergio Mendes, Gilberto Gil

July 15: Prince

July 16: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, B.B. King

July 17: The Great Latin Jazz Evening

Tour operator DISCOVER YOUR ITALY has been awarded an important recognition program:  the Zicasso Top Travel Specialist Award. Zicasso - featured as one of the “Best Travel Websites” by Travel + Leisure magazine - is a free travel service that connects discerning travelers with the industry’s top 10% travel specialists.

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DISCOVER YOUR ITALY has been recognized as Best Italy Travel Agent thanks to its comprehensive understanding and love for Italy. DISCOVER YOUR ITALY has also been recognized as Travel Specialist able to create the Best Italy Tours thanks to the ability to design and organize unforgettable luxury trips to Italy, tailored to fit all travelers’ expectations guaranteeing a sense of individuality and style in every detail.

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In a world of run of the mill travel options, tour operator DISCOVER YOUR ITALY designs for you a luxury private trip to Italy, tailored to fit your expectations guaranteeing a sense of individuality and style in every detail.

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY strength is the deep understanding and love for our country. Our expertise allow us to accommodate your travel expectations about the places you do not want to miss, and we will surprise you with advice on special places to visit you probably have never heard of.

We will design for you the best customized trip to Italy, taking care of all the logistics details, as we are in Italy and we can perfectly manage all the organization. DISCOVER YOUR ITALY extensive network of selected local partners throughout Italy has consistently delivered an outstanding level of service to our guests.

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DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will be in Chicago from January 29th to 30th 2011 for TRAVEL & ADVENTURE SHOW where it will present its UNIQUE TOURS TO ITALY, a great chance to American consumers and travel agents to be introduced to the amazing travel opportunities in Italy.

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will show visitors the best travel opportunities that ITALY has to offer (monuments, museums, works of art, wine and food gourmet specialities, folkloristic events, music and art performances by world renowned artists, etc.) and the amazing TOUR PROPOSALS specifically designed to discover the many beauties of this enchanting country.

The TRAVEL & ADVENTURE SHOW is the longest running series of consumer travel events in the United States – a one-stop shopping marketplace, where consumers and the travel trade will find thousands of travel providers offering unique vacation options and travel information. Visitors will have the opportunity to interact and find their next vacation with hundreds of destination travel experts and tour operators representing thousands of vacation options all under one roof!

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will exhibit at BOOTH 1814 where its representatives will welcome all visitors interested in planning a vacation in Italy and discussing the details of the tours published on the 2011 catalogue:

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All interested travellers and travel agents are invited to visit DISCOVER YOUR ITALY at TRAVEL & ADVENTURE SHOW (BOOTH 1814) and take advantage of “this show-only” discount:

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Discover Your Italy is proud to announce that after 5 long years of wait EUROFLORA is going to be back in 2011.

The trade show promises to be THE SHOW to visit for all flowers and plants lovers from around the globe!

Get this opportunity to visit the show and combine it with an unforgettable tour to Italy!

Discover Your ITaly has designed 2 unique itineraries especially for people like you who are passionate about flowers and plants.

Book our EUROFLORA 2011 TOURS and make your dream vacation come true: get the chance to visit EUROFLORA 2011, the Italian Riviera Botanical Gardens, Monaco Gardens, the Lake Maggiore Islands with their Italian Gardens and English Gardens …. and much more.

Plants and flowers from all over the world: after  five years, Euroflora - the most popular flower show among enthusiasts - is back on stage at Fiera di Genova (Genoa - Italy). The tenth edition of the event - which is to take place at Fiera di Genova from Thursday, April 21 to Sunday, 1 May 2011 - promises to deliver a unique, world-class show.

Euroflora is a five-yearly international floralies and among similar events, it is the most visited in Europe and largely owes its success to the extraordinary effort put up by its exhibitors, which is also recognized through numerous technical and exhibit prizes, awarded by experts from all over the world.

On the occasion of Euroflora, Genoa’s trade show centre is transformed into an amazing fifteen-hectare garden, where the colours and scents of the best productions of both Italian and foreign plant and flower growers blend into spectacular displays to capture the senses of visitors.

You will discover a world full of surprises, with rare plants and new flower varieties. You will learn about new trends and avant-garde designs and will be able to imagine what green spaces might look like in our towns and gardens in the future.

In addition to the main event, Euroflora also includes areas dedicated to equipment and products for both professional and amateur plant and flower growers, shopping, garden furnishings and a green market where it is possible to buy directly from producers.

The word “Euroflora” is by now part of our common vocabulary. Yet, with every show, it still manages to put across a new message and fascinate visitors with new amazing displays, new actors and new arrangements, delivering an exciting show of flowers and plants, colours, fragrances and water effects that has no equal in the world.

Please check the detailed itinerary of our brand new  EUROFLORA 2011 TOURS:

EUROFLORA &THE RIVIERA

The tour features 3 full days at Euroflora 2011, Genoa, the Gardens of the Italian Riviera, Portofino, Hanbury Gardens, Montecarlo, and Milan. Find out more

EUROFLORA, THE RIVIERA & THE LAKES

The tour features 2 full days at Euroflora 2011, Genoa, the Gardens of the Italian Riviera, Portofino, Hanbury Gardens, Montecarlo, Le 5 Terre, Milan and Lake Maggiore.Find out more

Please, do not hesitate to contact us in case  you have any question on or need any personalization of our Euroflora 2011 Tours.

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DISCOVER YOUR ITALY will be in Las Vegas from December 7th to December 9th 2010 for LTE – LUXURY TRAVEL EXPO 2010 where it will present its UNIQUE TOURS TO ITALY.

LTE – Luxury Travel Expo 2010 is truly the who’s who of the luxury travel market, and appeals to luxury travel professionals from around the globe. Top travel agents representatives of the best industry associations (Virtuoso, Ensemble Travel Group, Signature Travel Network, etc.) will attend the trade show. No other travel show delivers a chance to exchange ideas and make profitable connections with thousands of luxury travel services providers from across the world directly on the exhibit hall floor.

Discover your Italy will offer a unique chance to American tour operators and travel agents to be introduced to the amazing travel opportunities in Central Italy but also across the whole country.

Discover your Italy will guide its business partners through the best of cultural travel opportunities the GREEN HEART OF ITALY (the area of Italy north of Rome and south of Florence) has to offer such as: folkloristic events, music and art performances by world renowned artists, wine and food gourmet specialities (wine, olive oil, and many more), TOUR PROPOSALS which are specifically designed to discover the many beauties of this enchanting region of Italy.

Discover your Italy will exhibit at BOOTH 1024 where it will welcome all luxury travel professionals interested in knowing more about the business model of the this luxury tour operator (cultural tours, small groups, FITs, food & wine tours, out of the beaten track itineraries, local and art events, sustainable tourism) and the 2001 catalogue:

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DISCOVER YOUR ITALY is looking forward to meet travel agents, tour operators and travel consultants at LTE – LUXURY TRAVEL EXPO 2010 on December 8th and 9th 2010 in Las Vegas (BOOTH 1024). For scheduling an individual meeting please contact us.

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2011 holiday season is approaching and it is now the most appropriate moment to plan and book a holiday in ever enchanting Italy!

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY is committed to give customers a great travel experience in Italy. The rich catalogue of EXCLUSIVE ITALY TOURS offers a wide possibility of choice of itineraries, dates of departures, duration and prices.

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Don’t miss the advantages of our ITALY SMALL GROUP TOURS: guarantee of uniqueness, quality and style in every detail; top quality accommodations, transportations, guides and excursions; first class customer service.

We conduct a variety of tours all over Italy with scheduled departures and variable lengths of stay. Our small groups are 6 to 12 people are a unique characteristic of a new standard of travelling to Italy allowing for a more intimate encounter with the country. We can design CUSTOMIZED TOURS for our Travel Partners: personalized itinerary, duration, departure dates for your own group.

Our Italy Tours itineraries are all ORIGINAL AND EXCLUSIVE. They all feature a mix of both ever green destinations such as Rome, Florence, Venice, Tuscany, Pompeii, and out of the beaten track places such as Siena, Assisi, Naples, Perugia, Apulia, 5 Terre, Amalfi Coast, Umbria and a well balanced blend of sightseeing, activities and free time.

Our mission is to offer you organized tours that are anything but ordinary. We feature the real Italy!

DISCOVER YOUR ITALY is also launching for 2011 two new LUXURY ITALY TOURS: “THE BEST OF ITALY” and “SUPER TUSCANY”.

“THE BEST OF ITALY” is an exclusive luxury small group tour crafted to experience the authentic Italy, with its wealth of art, culture, wine and food treasures, breathtaking landscapes, great art cities. The tour features the 3 must-see big art cities (Rome, Venice, Florence), Tuscany (Siena, Chianti, Pisa), and the beauties of the South (Sorrento, Pompeii, Amalfi Coast, Capri).

“SUPER TUSCANY” is an original and exclusive luxury small group tour designed to discover the beauty of one of the most famous Italian regions, out of the beaten track. An extra-ordinary itinerary to discover the most authentic Tuscany, with its wealth of art, culture, wine and food treasures, of breathtaking landscapes. The tour features Siena, the perfection of the Renaissance art in Florence, the breathtaking  5 Terre coast, the secrets of Italian sculpture, from the white marble caves in Carrara, to the sculpture workshops in Pietrasanta, to the perfection of Michelangelo’s David in Florence, the its fascinating Leaning Tower in Pisa, the most authentic and out of the beaten track venues in Chianti and Val D’Orcia.

Take advantage of the new 2011 DISCOVER YOUR ITALY tours, check guaranteed departures dates on www.discoveryouritaly.com  and book immediately an unforgettable tour in Italy.

Urbino - Ducal Palace and Marche National Gallery - from April 4th to July 12, 2009

The painter Raffaello Sanzio (Rafael in English) was born in 1483  in the city of Urbino, where he began his artistic career in the shop of his father Giovanni Santi,  painter of  the Duke and literate.

The Ducal Palace in Urbino is one of the most important monuments in Italy and is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The construction of the Ducal Palace was begun by Duke Federico da Montefeltro who lived there with his wife Battista Sforza. The best architects and artists of XV century participated to the construction project of the Palace, among them: Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Luciano Laurana, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello and especially Rafael.

Taking inspiration from the context of Urbino at the end of the seventies of XV century, the exhibition, dedicated by his home town to Rafael, aims at recreating the artistic and cultural framework in which the young artist started his career.

The exhibition, taking place in the Salone del Trono and the private apartment of the Duchess of the Urbino Ducal Palace (normally hosting the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche), displays masterpieces of young artist Rafael compared with paintings of his father (Giovanni Santi) and other contemporary artists.

In 1505, Rafael left Urbino and moved to Florence and Perugia where he stayed for a short period of time. Afterwards, Rafael was invited to Rome by Pope Julius II who had been informed about this young talented artist by Bramante. During his stay in Rome, in 1511 Rafael painted the breathtaking Vatican Rooms, historical-artistic evidence of incomparable value.

The exhibition is dedicating its final section to the very close relationship between Rafael and the most important art handicraft of Urbino: majolica. In this section it is possible to admire old majolica with representations and images based original models of Rafael.

Would you like to visit Urbino and admire its beautiful Ducal Palace? Browse our Italy Tours that include Urbino:Tours in Italy - Urbino

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