Museums and galleries

THE UFFIZI GALLERY: HOW TO BOOK YOUR TICKET AND SKIP THE LINE No trip to Florence is complete without visiting the Uffizi Gallery, which offers the most complete overview on the Renaissance and a spectacular view on the Arno River. Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Botticelli are some of the famous artists you can admire […]

VATICAN MUSEUMS ENTRANCE TICKETS: HOW TO SKIP THE LINE Booking the entrance tickets to the Vatican Museums is essential if you want to make the most of your time to visit the Museums. The Vatican Museums are huge, full of artworks and it’s hard to visit them, and if you waste your energy to queue, […]

MUSEE D’ORSAY WORKS: THE UNMISSABLE WORKS, HOW TO REACH IT AND WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE TICKETS Musée d’Orsay works and artists of one of my favorite museums in Paris. It’s the perfect continuation of the Louvre Museum with its art collections dating from the second half of the 19th century to the early 20th century. […]

ON SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM: HOW TO PLAN A VISIT TO A MUSEUM I do love museums, you know that, and spending a Sunday visiting a museum is a chance to do something interesting and funny at the same time. Besides, admission to Italian state and civic museums is free every first Sunday of the […]

GUERCINO IN PIACENZA AND THE FRESCOES HOUSED IN THE CATHEDRAL Piacenza is the entrance door of the Emilia, and is the city where you can admire one of the masterpieces painted by Guercino. Fortresses, castles and villages are the setting of a very old city, which needs to be discovered little by little. The Romans […]

THE MONUMENTAL CEMETERY OF STAGLIENO IN GENOA The Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno. Genoa surprised me in many ways. It’s a city rich in history and it still houses in its Palazzi dei Rolli its history and its glorious past you can see in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, where Genoa’s most illustrious personalities lie. It […]

  5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT VILLA BORGHESE Villa Borghese is the third largest public park in Rome.It covers 80 hectares and occupies a large part of Pincian Hill and a small part of Campus Martius (Campo Marzio).It is a huge area and contains various buildings which have various functions. Besides, this green area includes […]

FREE MUSEUMS: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD After having written what are the free museums to see in Rome and on what days and times are free museums in Milan is now time to make a list on free museums in the rest of the world. I made a list of the most […]

WHAT TO SEE IN AMSTERDAM: THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT MUSEUMS A list of the best museums to see in Amsterdam. The 5 most important museums.

THE WORLD’S BEST RESTAURANTS INSIDE A MUSEUM When I visit a museum I always hope that I will find inside it a restaurant or at least a nice café where I can eat a tasty dish and enjoy a view of the city I’m in. I must confess that I’m not always pleased with it, […]

MUSEO DEL NOVECENTO: THE MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN MILAN The Museo del Novecento (the Museum of the 20th century) is located in Piazza Duomo in Milan inside the Palazzo dell’Arengario, built in the 1930s.The Museum was inaugurated in 2010 and displays the Milanese collection of contemporary art, including some masterpieces of the 20th […]

WHAT TO SEE IN MADRID: THE CASON DEL BUEN RETIRO What to do in Madrid. A few steps away from the Prado Museum there’s the Casón del Buen Retiro, that is to say the ballroom of the ancient royal palace, which houses the special section of the Prado Museum, with its 19th–century art collection.

THE MUSEUMS WHICH WILL OPEN IN 2017 This post is devoted to travellers, but especially to those who always search for new places which can offer also an interesting cultural experience. 2017 will be characterised by inaugurations all over the world, and I’ve decided to make a list of the most important museums which will […]

A MUSEUM FOR THE SALCE COLLECTION The Salce Collection is the most important collection of advertising posters in Italy and Europe, which since the end of the 19th century have embellished the streets of the European capitals. There’s only another collection as important as this one in the world, and it is housed in Paris […]

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CASA BUONARROTI Casa Buonarroti is one of the most interesting place in Florence. Inside the building there are works of art by Michelangelo Buonarroti, an archive of books and documents, including some autographs by Michelangelo himself, and an extensive photographic archive of Michelangelo’s contemporary artists and contemporary pieces of art. […]

THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN LONDON: THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Everyone knows that the British Museum is one of the world’s greatest museums, is up with the times and always ready to amaze its visitors, as I told you in a post in which I also recommended to you the works housed at […]

THE PRADO MUSEUM The Prado Museum was inaugurated in 1819 and houses the private art collections of the sovereigns of Spain, who over the centuries have collected a huge amount of masterpieces. Therefore, the main feature of the Prado Museum is that the museum is an expression of the taste and personality of the sovereigns […]

THE SPINOLA PALACE IN GENOA I’ve already told you that Genoa amazed me when I talked about my visit to the Palazzi dei Rolli. If I had to write a post for each palace, monument, square and church this city keeps, I would start a new blog. I visited Genoa twice last year, and I still have […]

“I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS There are several museums in the world, maybe too many, but sometimes I discover a new museum and I find it poetic. It happened to me when I got an email informing me that in […]

THE MART IN ROVERETO The Mart in Rovereto. The first museum of Trentino I visited was the Mart, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, and it seemed odd at that time (it was 2002 and the museum had just been inaugurated) that Rovereto had invested in culture with a challenging project. The […]