Italy
Calling all gastronomes to Liguria
With the UK held firmly in the grip of a food renaissance, buzz words such as provenance, traceability and sustainability are becoming common parlance.
Wizz Air flies from Brno to Rome
Wizz Air, the largest low fare - low cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe announced today that it would open a new route from the Czech Republic starting March 2011.
Quintessential Italian experiences
Italian Country Cottages is the brand new offering from The Hoseasons Group, the company behind English Country Cottages and cottages4you, the UK’s leading letting agency.
Be the king of the castle this New Year’s Eve!
The festive season is almost upon us, and with that comes the eternal question – what to do for New Year’s Eve? This year, why not celebrate like a king and party the night away with a group of close friends and family in your very own castle!
SoloSicily says book now for peak season savings
Book a Sicilian villa holiday with car rental between May and November before the end of the year and save £250 with villa specialist, SoloSicily.
Tuscany still the summer favourite
Italy's largest trade tourism survey in the UK has just been published and a whopping 55% of UK operators have named Tuscany as the top region in terms of bookings between July and September 2010, making it the leading Italian region for summer holidays.
Head east to halve the cost of family skiing
News that snow is falling in the Alps is likely to start a downhill dash by families to bag the best deals on a skiing holiday - especially as resort prices have risen by up to 15 per cent in Europe and North America, according to the Post Office Family Ski Resort Report 2010. However, cash-strapped families can halve the cost of their annual ski trip by swapping ski resorts and heading past the Alps to Bulgaria or Slovenia.
Top romantic holiday homes
CV Travel, who specialise in some of the world's most individual and unique holiday houses, has come up with its pick of the most romantic cottages, houses and villas from a beamed rural retreat in Wales, to a former sardine fisherman’s cottage at the water’s edge on the north coast of Corfu.
Top spa and yoga retreats
If the cold winter gets you down, now is the perfect time to take time out and nourish your mind, body and soul with a spa holiday or yoga retreat.
airBaltic to start flights to Milan Linate Airport
On October 31, the Latvian national airline airBaltic will start flights to Milan Linate airport in Italy.
MAXXI Museum Rome wins Sterling Prize 2010
The new MAXXI Museum (Museum of the art of the XXI century) has won the coveted Sterling Prize 2010, given by RIBA to the best British architectural project of the year.
Italy’s Cervinia is lowest priced ‘leading’ ski resort
UK skiers should benefit from better value in Europe this winter, thanks to a sterling recovery against 2009’s rock bottom exchange rates.
Luxury barging around Venice
Venice, one of the most romantic cities in the world, will soon be home to one of European Waterways' newest luxury hotel barges, the 20-passenger La Bella Vita.
Marathon runners head for Turin
Turin, the principal city of Piedmont, was renovated and modernized for the 2006 Winter Olympics and is now trying to attract more Britons to the Turin Marathon "La Stampa" Grand Prix on Sunday 14 November so that the city, less well known than other classic Italian tourist destinations but nevertheless interesting for its culture, history and food and wine, can prove to be a place of discovery for those with a passion for running.
New telephone helpline for tourists in Italy
‘Easy Italia - No Worry Holidays’ is the new phone service offering multilingual information and services to Italian and foreign tourists recently activated by the Ministry for Tourism.