Benvenuti alla Dolce Vita!
Brilliant licensed art and history guide, PhD, with two decades experience in Florence, the Cinque Terre, Tuscany, Venice, Rome, the Vatican, Pompeii, and Sicily. I’ll plan your itinerary, arrange skip-the-line museum tickets, a private driver and boat ride, take you to my favorite local restaurant and on the most panoramic hike, talk art, history, Italian life and politics, and can even cook for you a Sicilian meal!
Pleasure in life must be holistic – and Italy is an ideal country for this. My tours of Florence are outstanding. My experiences of Tuscany are sublime. My Cinque Terre is spectacular. My Venice is passionate like Casanova. My Rome is layered like a delicious cake. My Sicily is a treasure well.
I am driven by admiration for local Italy, my home over the past 25 years. Here, I studied in Rome and Florence, worked in Parma, the Cinque Terre and Tuscany, and of course fell in love – in Sicily. It’s this pleasure, careful research, attention to detail and local knowledge that I’m happy to share with you.
CREDENTIALS:
- Official Italian art history guide license (800 hours compulsory coursework, state exam), including UNESCO World Heritage Sites (Florence, Venice, Rome, Siena, Pisa, Pompeii, and more)
- Official Vatican City guide license including the Vatican museums, the Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms and St. Peter’s basilica.
- PhD (European University Institute).
- Published book author (Oxford, Hart Publishing).
- The last licensed guide still resident in the oldest part of Florence.
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- to design your customized itinerary and tours in Italy
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