Chalk dust lingers in the air as you tighten your harness beneath a limestone cliff, the river roaring far below. Europe offers climbers a continent-wide playground spanning granite slabs in the Alps, sandstone towers in Saxon Switzerland, and overhanging limestone caves in Mallorca. Each crag has its own character: the rough gneiss of the Mont […]
Categories: France, Greece, Italy, Nature, United Kingdom
Four hundred kilometres of interconnected slopes stretch across the border between Italy and France, forming one of the largest ski areas in the world. The Via Lattea, or Milky Way, links seven resorts including Sestriere, Sauze dOulx, and Montgenèvre, offering runs for every ability level. Wide, gentle boulevards suit beginners, while steep couloirs test even […]
Categories: Italy, Wellness, Relax & Sports, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Venice rises from the lagoon like a mirage, a city built on wood pilings driven into mud a thousand years ago. There are no cars here. The streets are canals. The buses are boats. Gondolas glide under low bridges while water taxis skip across the Giudecca Canal. St. Mark’s Square floods at high tide, reflecting […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Nature, Sea Sites, Sights, Sights
Monte Bondone rises above the city of Trento, a mountain that offers skiing with a view of the valley below. It is one of Italy most accessible ski resorts, just a thirty-minute drive from the town centre. The slopes are well suited to intermediate skiers and families. There are gentle runs for beginners and more […]
Categories: Italy, Nature, Wellness, Relax & Sports, Wellness, Relax & Sports
The Bay of Naples stretches in a blue arc from the Sorrentine Peninsula to Cape Miseno, framed by the smoking cone of Mount Vesuvius. This Italian coastline offers a compendium of family-friendly attractions packed into a compact area. Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Roman cities buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, provide a history lesson that […]
Categories: Cities, Italy, Nature, Sea Sites, Sights, Sights
The ferry arrives at a harbor painted in pastel yellows and soft terracottas. Giglio is small enough that you can feel the scale of the surrounding sea pressing in from every side. Steep vineyards climb the hillsides above the port, and wild rosemary grows along the stone walls that divide the terraces. There are no […]
Rome does not merely tolerate children; it welcomes them with a warmth that surprises many parents. The city becomes an open-air classroom where history lives in three dimensions: gladiators in the Colosseum, chariot races in the Circus Maximus, and catapults at the Museo della Civiltà Romana. Children run freely through the Borghese Gardens and press […]
The better thing to describe the country you’re living is to observe it from a different prospective. Only after you go outside your Home Country you
Not long after we were married, my husband and I spent a romantic week in Venice. It was so enchanting that I promised myself we would come back one d
Categories: Italy
The splendid magnificence of the “Eternal City” offers its students the unique experience of learning and living the language with its indoor and outd
