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Faenza ceramics – The city that named pottery
Faenza ceramics have been produced since the mid-1500s and in many languages the city’s name has become synonymous with pottery. - Welcome to the world famous Faenza. I suppose you are going to see the...
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Cafe museum Oria – World history in a coffee cup
I had walked past the cafe museum Oria several times before entering a very special museum that had served both German and American forces during WWII. What really strikes you is the lack of...
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Palazzo Te Mantova and Charles Dickens
Palazzo Te Mantova, was decorated by unaccountable nightmares according to Charles Dickens. And the leering monsters are still there. The Gonzaga family’s summer residence in Mantova is basically a...
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Agrigento Valle dei templi
Stories of prisoner labourers, Greek austeristy and Roman thieves made sightseeing in Agrigento Valle dei Templi a lot more interesting. It’s supposed to have looked exactly like the Greek acropolis...
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Ducal Palace Mantua and the art work extravaganze
Ducal Palace Mantua is a never-ending art gallery with more than 500 rooms that occupy an area of about 34,000 m² and span the late medieval, the Renaissance and the seventeenth century. Let’s get this...
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Celebrating the man who named America
Five centuries after his death in 1512, exhibitions in New York and Florence celebrate broker, explorer and writer, Amerigo Vespucci, the man who named America North and South. Even though it was...
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Museums in Venice
Venice is a wonderland for museum buffs and exhibitions range from modern art to renaissance masterpieces. Here’s a list of the nine public museums in Venice included in the Venice Museum Pass. It can...
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The wine museum in Barolo
I had expected a nice, nerdy experience from my visit to the wine museum in Barolo, but was surprised to find full blown family entertainment. Sandwiched between two Italian school classes, I started...
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Grazzano Badoglio – A village in Monferrato Italy
I dropped into Grazzano Badoglio in Monferrato Italy as an instance of pure serendipity. The tiny village halfway between Asti and Casale Monferrato in Piedmont looked more or less deserted in the...
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The creepy museum Gallipoli Italy
At first sight Museo Civico in Gallipoli may seem quite ordinary, but behind the scenes – or rather upstairs – this museum Gallipoli Italy turns creepy. One museum that will always stand out in my...
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