Enrico Massetti

It is a guide to a two weeks trip in the center of Italy: Parma to Assisi passing through the Cinque Terre, Portovenere, Lerici, Carrara, Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, Florence, Siena, Volterra, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Perugia and then Assisi. There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions. It is ideal for use on your smart phone, it contains many reviews for the best recommended restaurants that are...

Using fresh ingredients in Italian cooking seems to shame the UK and the USA. The joy of eating fresh tomatoes and excellent olive oil is without equal. It's hard to travel anywhere in Italy without enjoying the fine wines. Drinking wine with a meal is very much part of the culture here. If you have previously visited many of the larger Italian cities, you can wonder how the region around Lake Garda would compare. You can read in your guidebook that...

Enrico Massetti wrote this book with 43 color images. As a matter of fact: Italy possesses the most remarkable artistic and cultural heritage globally. And its culture is not just found in the great creative cities but is diffuse, "spread" throughout national territory as in no other country. The proof? Le Marche. Its flat and sandy coast is interrupted by rugged, rocky precipices, a region with rich and varied countryside with the Adriatic Sea. The...

Naples is raw, high-octane energy, a place of soul-stirring art and panoramas, spontaneous conversations, and unexpected, inimitable elegance. Welcome to Italy's most unlikely masterpiece. Naples, located on the south-western shores of Italy, is the third-largest city in the country and one of the richest in history. But despite its incredible past extending to its first foundations as far back as the 9th Century BC, tourists rarely venture from...

The highest mountains in Europe, medieval castles to protect the roads that cross the Alps, used since the time of the Roman Empire, agricultural traditions and their history still alive today, the most sophisticated and advanced facilities for skiing in resorts frequented by millions of skiers from around the world, villages that can be reached only by cable car and do not have a road for cars, natural parks that protect flora and fauna, all this,...

Enrico Massetti wrote this book with 62 color images. Perhaps it is the evocative nature of the place or a certain enchanted air (we might almost say "mystic") that you breathe to some extent everywhere, but sooner or later, whoever visits Umbria ends up thinking: Saint Francis, that great, gentle, tender, and poetic Saint of happiness and humility could only have been born here in Umbria. In this place of ever-green, peaceful, and radiant nature,...

The Amalfi Coast is, without a doubt, the most spectacular and beautiful coastline in Italy. Moorish style villages cling to the dramatic jagged cliffs, perched over the rippling waves below. The air scented with lemons and wild herbs, and of course, the sea. The villages that string along the Amalfi Coast have cobblestoned streets lined with bougainvillea-covered villas, Arabic arches, and many corners with million-dollar views. The magic of the...

"A little village stretching like an arch of the moon around a quiet basin. Never have I felt the way I did when I walked into that green indefiniteness, with such a sense of peace and fulfillment". From Vie Errante by Guy de Maupassant Portofino is a typical fisherman village on the Ligurian Riviera, which has become one of Italy's most famous tourist spots. However, it is best known worldwide for its tall colored houses situated in a semicircular...

This book is a guide to Milan for a visit lasting two, three, or more days.There are extensive descriptions and color photos of the attractions: museums, churches, nightlife, and other attractions.The descriptions of how to get to Milan by driving and parking are helpful info to stay there.It is ideal for use on your smartphone. It contains active links to the museums' websites, so you can check the latest schedule and buy tickets with a click from...

StresaTo the tourist, who, for the first time, arrives in Stresa, a breathless sight is offered. In the beginning, a superb lakefront window was delineated with lines of palm trees, flourishing gardens, and facades of grand hotels.Then, looking at the lake, enchanted, as if emerging from the same waters, the spectacular Borromean Islands (Isola Bella, Isola Madre, and Isola dei Pescatori).The splendor of these visions is enough to understand how Stresa...