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Horses with carriages attack in Palmanova / Slalom through hay balls

June 02, 2018

Wolfgang Stocker

20 Jan, 2019

Snow Art in Friuli's Pontebba / International sculptors showed their skills

Pontebba/Italy (2019) – Very talented and creative sculptors from not only Italy but also Belarus, the Ukraine, Mongolia, Czech Republic, Germany and Wales/Great Britain showed once again in Pontebba in Friuli-Venezia Giulia during this year's 4th International Snow Sculpture Festival their incredible skills. As if it was not freezing cold enough already, for three days in a row the international artists had to work huge iced snow blocks into amazing pieces of art in open air. Snow Art
14 Oct, 2018

Spirit of Portopiccolo wins 50th Barcolana / Largest sailboat regatta

Trieste/Italy (2018) – Every year on the second Sunday in October the city of Trieste mutates to the Mecca of sailing. This year an estimated 300.000 people populated the city to attend the so called Barcolana in the Golf of Trieste, a true celebration of the sea and the sport of sailing with the main event, the largest sailboat regatta in the world. While the famous boat race is held on Sunday, the Barcolana celebration is spread out over the whole weekend. This year's Barcolana was the 50th
16 Sep, 2018

Rovinj: Feels like Italy but is Croatia / Small town leaves a big impression

Rovinj/Croatia (2018) – If you look for the romantic charm only an island can produce, the enchantment of a fishermen town and an Italian look and feel, without actually being in Italy, the Istrian city of Rovinj might be just what you are looking for. Even though the Croatian jewel, located on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, is by God no secret to the tourism industry, the little fishing port still presents itself as a sleeping beauty, totally ignoring and covering the fact, that it
10 Jun, 2018

Rome for sure wasn't built on one day

Rome/Italy (2018) – Walking through Rome is like walking through a gigantic open air museum. I'm quite certain that I share this assessment with most of the tourists visiting the Italian capital. Even Romans themselves say, for example the late Alberto Sordi, beloved Italian actor and film director: "Rome is not like any city, it's a majestic museum, a living room to tiptoe through". The Italian capital is immensely loaded with fascinating excavation sites, literally on every corner is one,
19 May, 2018

La Scarzuola – The sacred and the ideal city / When madness meets genius

Montegabbione, Umbria/Italy (2018) – Hidden in the middle of nowhere land, nestled in an Umbrian forest lie two very special and magical places right next to each other, called "La Scarzuola" – "The Sacred City" and "The Ideal City". Visitors enter the historic former Franciscan monastery and walk right into a dream land, the very surreal world of Tomaso Buzzi (1900 - 1981). The famous Milanese avant-garde architect, eminent and influential in the 1920s and 1930s in Italy, acquired the monastery
18 May, 2018

The tallest man-made waterfall / Cascata delle Marmore, the pride of Umbria

Terni, Umbria/Italy (2018) – Generally I do believe that nature by itself provides incredibly raw beauty, but once in a while I have to admit that mankind can definitely contribute to natures efforts in making the world a beautiful place. I'm not talking about putting some flower pots in front of our homes or planting bushes and trees here and there. In the Italian region Umbria you'll find an example I'm talking about: the Cascata delle Marmore, a man-made waterfall, created by the ancient
17 May, 2018

Mille Miglia: Most beautiful race in the world

Sansepolcro/Italy (2018) – Just as I was about to walk through an ancient arch of the fortified city walls into the historic old town of Sansepolcro in the southeast of Tuscany, bordering Umbria and Marche, the sound of loud howling engines suddenly grabbed my attention. I knew this sound, this had to be a Ferrari. Indeed there it was, one of Enzo Ferrari's treasures from Maranello, driving down the alley in all its beauty, red, shiny and roaring. And there was another one coming and another
16 May, 2018

Visiting Assisi – "Oh, when the Saints..."

Assisi, Umbria/Italy (2018) – When lots of men in long brown robes walk in the heat of the day next to you, looking like monks but acting like tourists, strolling around on busy squares and walking the same alleys as you do with the same goal in mind to reach a very beautiful sight, then you know, you're close to a sacred destination. And if you see Saint Francis, the founder of the Franciscan orders of the Friars Minor in 1208 and co-patron saint of Italy, looking at you from souvenir stands,
14 May, 2018

Umbria, proud neighbor of Tuscany / Saints, truffles and Sagrantino

Assisi, Umbria/Italy (2018) – Umbria/Italy (2018) – When we talk about Italy's beautiful landscape, we always refer immediately to Tuscany. And rightfully so I think because there is a reason why most of us consider it a piece of heaven. Much less attention gets Tuscany's neighbor, Umbria, which really is incomprehensible, especially once you've seen it. It is not so much different from Tuscany, how could it be anyway, nature, people and style usually don't change much within a close by
23 Feb, 2018

Lake Como has it all, including Clooney

Lake Como – Cernobbio, Tremezzo, Bellagio (2018) – Italy definitely offers a lot of places where one can feel utterly heavenly. I'm not spilling any secrets when I tell you that one of these divine spots can be found in Northern Italy's Lombardy region. North of Milan, where Italy meets the Alps, close to the Swiss border, there it lays, the breathtaking jewel Lake Como. The 30 miles (50 Kilometer) long "Y" shaped lake with its gorgeous villages at its shoreline is considered an Italian gem...
03 Sep, 2017

Donkeys run for Gold in "San Siro di Friuli" "Corse dai mus" – Spectacle in Fagagna"

Fagagna/Friuli, Italy (2017) – Every first Sunday in September, since 1861, locals and many visitors from near and far gather around the beautiful market square of Fagagna in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, near the northern Italian city Udine, to witness a very traditional and truly unique spectacle: the "Corse dai mus", the race of the donkeys. Yeah I know, it sounds funny at first but it really isn't. Sure, the thought of donkeys racing around a track puts a smile in every sour face, but don't be
14 Aug, 2017

In touch with ice and snow in summer – Visiting Diavolezza in Engadine

Diavolezza/Switzerland (2017) – Yes, it gets hot in summer, we get that. But that hot? Somebody has to talk to the responsible otherwise we all will soon run for the mountains where temperatures still can be endured. There is literally nothing cooler than to be at a glacier by the way on a hot August summer day. Trust me, I've checked it out this year, while on a journey through the Engadine valley with the "Trainino Rosso" in Switzerland. If there is a desire in you to see a glacier from the
13 Aug, 2017

The Bernina Express – Crossing the Swiss Alps by train

Tirano/Italy, St. Moritz/Switzerland (2017) – Since August of this year I have something in common with one of the greatest generals and military strategists in history, Hannibal, we both crossed the Alps. Of course each one of us did it with style, Hannibal on a war elephant and I on the coolest train in the Alps, the Bernina Express. The little red train, how the Bernina Express is also called, is part of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) and links the famous St. Moritz in Switzerland with the town
11 Aug, 2017

Livigno – Trading the beaches for the Italian Alps

Livigno/Italy (2017) – To trade sandy beaches for grassland in high altitude for a little summer vacation seems wrong already at the first thought. Especially in Italy, where the beaches and the sea are a synonym for "La dolce vita". It's tough to turn your back on something you know would be great and instead try something you can't even predict the outcome because you know literally nothing about it. Well, I did the unthinkable anyway in this year's so very hot August and drove up north,
11 Jun, 2017

Horses and carriages in line with tradition – Competition of Tradition Attacks

Passariano/Codroipo, Villa Manin/Italy (2017) – The "Villa Manin" in Passariano/Codroipo has already something noble about it. But add some very strong and elegant horses pulling vintage carriages to the former property of one of the last doges of Venice and let people in traditional and historic clothing guide them through an obstacle course right on the Manin's former front lawn and you have the perfect picture of this year's "5th International Competition of Tradition Attacks" in Friuli.
01 Jun, 2017

Positano, the pearl on the Amalfi Coast – Italy's very special vertical village

Positano, Amalfi Coast/Italy (2017) – "Positano bites deep", wrote the American author John Steinbeck in his essay for the "Harpers Bazaar" in 1953 and introduced with that the true pearl of the Italian Amalfi coast to the world. "It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone", wrote the winner of "Pulitzer Prize" and "Nobel Prize" and opened with that the floodgate for Positano's tourism. Ever since the "vertical village" ranks as
30 May, 2017

It's true: Naples is simply fascinating – Don't judge the city at first sight

Naples/Italy (2017) – "Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply fascinating", wrote Emily Lilian Whithing (1847-1942), an American journalist, poet and story teller in her book "Italy: The Magic Land". Naples couldn't receive a greater and more fitting compliment. Even though the city has to fight so many misconceptions – dirty, dangerous, unfriendly – once given the chance to convince visitors from
30 May, 2017

Isle of Capri is much more than a song – A very special island in the bay of Naples

Capri/Italy (2017) – It is considered a sign of great popularity when a song is written about a place and performed worldwide for decades. The "Isle of Capri" is such a song. Since it was written in 1934, many famous singer carried the Italian island's name out into the world and multiple times and in many languages around the globe. But Capri's fame doesn't come from this song, the great island in the bay of Naples, belonging to Italians region Campania, has a long history as a resort, starting
28 May, 2017

Abbey Monte Oliveto Maggiore – Saint Benedicts life in incredible frescoes

Abbey Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Tuscany/Italy (2017) – Where the green rolling hills of the Tuscan landscape all of the sudden end and the rather harsh looking land of the Crete Senesi takes over, there you'll find Tuscany's most-visited abbey, the Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore. With that you meet the brotherhood of the Monaci Benedettini di Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto and my new found friend Brother Joseph. The monastery is renowned for its great Renaissance frescoes in the "Chiostro Grande"
28 May, 2017

Romanesque abbey within a field of olive trees – Sant'Antimo is well worth the trip

Abbey Sant'Antimo, Tuscany/Italy (2017) – In the middle of pure Tuscan landscape, within rolling hills, vineyards and olive trees, there it is, the famous Abbey of Sant'Antimo. The former Benedictine monastery is located about 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) south of the home of the famous "Brunello" wine, Montalcino. After the Abbey was inhabited for centuries by Benedictine monks, from 1992 on the abbey was populated by the Premonstratensian Canons Regular, a group of Roman Catholic priests,

23 Feb, 2018

Lake Como has it all, including Clooney

Lake Como – Cernobbio, Tremezzo, Bellagio (2018) – Italy definitely offers a lot of places where one can feel utterly heavenly. I'm not spilling any secrets when I tell you that one of these divine spots can be found in Northern Italy's Lombardy region. North of Milan, where Italy meets the Alps, close to the Swiss border, there it lays, the breathtaking jewel Lake Como. The 30 miles (50 Kilometer) long "Y" shaped lake with its gorgeous villages at its shoreline is considered an Italian gem...
26 May, 2017

This is how you imagine paradise – Val d'Orcia: A magnificent Tuscan treasure

Val d'Orcia, Tuscany/Italy (2017) – I have seen big and small, vibrant and busy cities, secluded but cozy and beautiful places, I have seen gorgeous locations in the mountains, at the sea, on islands and even in the desert. And a while ago I had already come to the following conclusion: no matter where you are, something will excite you or it won't fulfill your expectations, something you see or experience will leave you with a good or a bad feeling. It's just like that, pretty simple

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