From the middle of the fifteenth century in Italy , in addition to Tuscany , distinct paths to humanism emerged in various other regions. One of the most coherent and successful paths was the Venetian path, with Venice as the driving force. In Venice , as in Florence , the most important cultural objective of art was the determination of the universal essence of nature . Unlike the Tuscans who identified it in the intelligible form of the former and in the substance of the l

Water, Stone, and the Quiet Geography of Beauty Losing yourself in the evocative and enveloping atmosphere of Orta  feels like stepping into a small northern Eden where light, architecture and myth breathe together. The villas reflecting in the lake, the gentle succession of gardens and stone, the silence broken only by footsteps on cobbled alleys — everything seems suspended, as if waiting to be read. And within this luminous quiet, the world of Palladio does not appear as

Borgo Berga and the Palladian Arco delle Scalette of Monte Berico . Borgo Berga is an area located in the historical center of Vicenza that has undergone many changes. The district was formed in the area between the city walls in the early medieval and Venetian period and has developed in recent centuries along the first stretch of the Riviera Berica and on the adjacent slopes of Monte Berico . A few meters from this area you can admire the Renaissance masterpieces of

Have you been invited to a dinner party and find yourself in 16th century Italy ? Here are a few notions of what you might find on your plate, and don't forget your manners! Generally, the prince of the Renaissance table was sugar. So it was time for sweet tastes and the birth of pastry as we know it today, an art that began to evolve during the Renaissance. People also began to appreciate the many possible uses of the 'skin of milk' , i.e. cream, which until then had been

One of our E-Bikes is called Evelina and although there are many figures with this name who populate the world of history and culture , today we want to talk about Evelina Cattermole . Born in Florence at the end of the nineteenth century , she immediately showed a particular talent for poetry and an innate sensitivity to writing, even if her first verses perhaps lacked a bit of healthy, youthful naivety. Nevertheless, after many tribulations, she succeeded in establishing h

The red bricks immediately identify it as something unfinished, but Villa Thiene conceals its richness precisely in its story, so...

Perhaps not everyone knows that the symbol of Bassano del Grappa , the famous Ponte Vecchio , is the result of Andrea Palladio 's inexhaustible ingenuity. The Ponte degli Alpini , as it is also known today, crosses the river Brenta and is a monument dedicated in the 1920s to the hundreds of fallen soldiers of the First World War who saw Bassano and the surrounding territories the scene of the bloodiest clashes of the conflict. Due to a flood in 1567, the previous bridge was s

Today, we think of a banquet and our mouths water at the thought of delicacies , abundance and fun . But in the Renaissance , a banquet was a rather serious affair, involving extensive preparations, a respectable menu, theatrical displays, music, dancing and even a joust! The wedding banquet organised for the union between Alfonso II Duke of Ferrara and Barbara of Habsburg , held on a cold December day in 1565, went down in history. Everyone talked about it for years. A wor

The Palladian heritage in Veneto is vast, just think of the many pages that talk about it, or all the villas in the area from Padua to...