We're excited to once again be named to Travel + Leisure's A-List of travel agents, what T+L describes as
"the best of the best - specialists who always deliver."
2008 Travel + Leisure A-List
Andrea Sertoli and our roster of Italian travel experts have been designing custom trips and meeting clients' specific needs for
over a decade. Here's a recent example that T+L included in their September 2008 issue:
[Select Italy arranged] for an on-site scholar and an art historian to explain to
a dot-com billionaire and his 11-year-old twin sons the convoluted history of a medieval fresco in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, and
determine its authenticity using X-rays and CSI-like, state-of-the-art archaeology techniques.
2007 Travel + Leisure A-List
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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[Select Italy arranged] for an on-site scholar and an art historian to explain to
a dot-com billionaire and his 11-year-old twin sons the convoluted history of a medieval fresco in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, and
determine its authenticity using X-rays and CSI-like, state-of-the-art archaeology techniques. ![[quote]](images/back-quote.jpg)
