My name is Denyse, and I have been living happily for 20 years in splendid Cortona and my pride and joy is a small, but very particular tourist agency that will assist you with passion and competence in the discovery of two of the most fascinating regions in Italy (Tuscany and Umbria) and of our most important cultural cities in the world (Rome, Venice, and Florence).
I love the enchanting places in which I live and I am constantly on the move, but I especially enjoy helping other people to discover these areas. My greatest ambition is not just to make you focus your attention only on the cultural, artistic, and environmental heritage for which these areas are so well known, but to help you discover the unusual and unknown places. These areas are not included on the official “Grand Tour” of tourism but are also very beautiful and interesting and of which I am very familiar and I am sure that I can make you love them with the same intensity that I do.
I propose exclusive tours for a real pleasant trip to the art capitals or into the Tuscan or Umbrian countryside.
I will provide all of the necessary information you need to reach the small businesses that are tightly bound to agriculture – immersed in the green of the countryside and two steps from historical palaces, monuments, and churches which house some of the most important masterpieces in the world – in which the family life and work follow along the pace of years ago, where it is possible to participate personally in the collecting of grapes and making of wine or the making of cheese or also, to pick the olives and then witness the different phases of their transformation into olive oil.
It will also be my pleasure, as in many other possible examples, to have you visit one of the small family-owned businesses, where they will be anxious and pleased to show you how their trained hands can produce the famous ceramic from Deruta using the old method. I will be suggesting the small trattorie and osterie (restaurants) where the expert chef will prepare the best traditional, genuine, specialities, and also the restaurants that face Lake Trasimeno where they cook, during the day, the fish that was caught in the lake the night before.
In the cultural art cities, I will recommend that you visit the more well-known museums but also, the lesser-known ones that will tell you more precisely the true history of the city, and to go and uncover the artisan shops that hand down the ancient traditions in crafts.
I will indicate the most beautiful villas that are available to rent, and the agriturismi ( B&B on a farm) that are most welcoming where you can spend your vacation; I have personally visited all the houses and apartments listed on my web site, and I keep in constant contact with the property owners or managers to insure a vacation in Italy of maximum comfort, close contact with the wonders of nature, discovery of art and awakening of taste buds.
My constant commitment will be to be sure that your stay in Tuscany or Umbria and trips to Rome, Florence, and Venice that I have recommended will remain among the most beautiful and emotional memories that you have.