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...you'll find T+L's 2006 A-List: 125 travel super-agents, the best of the best - specialists who always deliver. In the past year, we've interviewed hundreds of agents to find out which ones provide unparalleled service and essential advice. Each is listed by area of specialization, with his or her dream holiday included to inspire a trip that may even change your life.
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- Sept. 2006 Travel + Leisure Magazine
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A-List Super Agent for Travel to Italy
2002 * 2003
* 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007
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Each year, Travel + Leisure magazine, in collaboration with the agents of American Express, announces its "A-List" of top travel agents. Select Italy is proud to have been included on this list as top agents for Italy for the past six years in a row (2002 - 2007).
For each issue, Travel + Leisure's editors have asked Andrea Sertoli, President of Select Italy, to describe a personal "Dream Trip" or "Top Tip" for his area of expertise. Below you'll find his responses for the last six years.
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Dream Trip: Exploring the Friuli region, spending
time on its white-sand
beaches, and climbing the craggy Italian Alps. Enjoying the
quiet of this
corner of Italy, which is off the mainstream tourist circuit,
and above all
eating its cuisine - prosciutto and prosecco, in particular. Read more about Andrea's dream trip in Friuli >>
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Dream Trip: A leisurely car trek through
Italy's Le Marche: beginning in Urbino, a Renaissance jewel
dominated by the 15th-century castle of the dukes of Montefeltro;
heading toward the Adriatic to attend the annual Rossini festival
in Pesaro, the composer's hometown; returning inland to tiny
Pergola and its 17th-century theater.
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Dream Trip: A month in Puglia and neighboring
Basilicata to see Baroque and Norman architecture and visit
boutique vineyards, culminating in a week relaxing by the pool
at Il Melograno, a 17th-century farming estate in Monopoli,
Puglia. Read more about Apulia >>
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Dream Trip: Exploring Piedmont - the area will host the
Winter Olympics in 2006 (the skiing is great), and Turin has the best
collection of Egyptian Antiquities outside of Cairo, as well as divine
gianduja (a blend of chocolate and hazelnut) treats. Read more about Piedmont >>
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Top tip: The Cilento region south of the Amalfi Coast. "Wild and wonderful - think
sand and rocks and woods and local artichokes. Santa Maria di Castellabate
on the sea gets a stylish summer crowd, and Paestum is one of the world's
most perfect ancient Greek temples." Read more about the Cilento region >>
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Top tip: Ponza, an island that's a jealously guarded weekend escape for Romans. The
next island over is a nature preserve. The waters are crystal-blue and you
can find obsidian in the seabed. Read more about Ponza >>
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