Travel Italy: Vacation Packages, Tips, Tours of Italy

When it comes to fashion and shopping travel, no doubts about Italy as one of the destinations that has more to offer.
Whether you are looking for fashion courses, or visiting the sanctuaries of couture design, or simply shopping tours, Italy is a mecca for travelers worldwide.

Florence and Milan are the most visited cities from these vacationers, because the most relevant fashion events take place there. Also these cities offer more a chance for taking fashion courses.

Global Experiences, American Tour Operator from Alexandria, VA, has launched fashion tours in Florence and Milan for Summer 2006.

The “Moda Italiana”, tour in Florence and Milan, is a great chance for mothers and daughters, or friends, to experience some of the fashion capitals of the world.
Tour dates are as follows: June 25th - July 1st and July 23rd - July 29th 2006
“Summer Fashion Course” in Milan, is a fashion and language training program.
The Program begins with a one-week intensive language training course.

After the language courses, participants will go onto take their fashion course at Istituto Marangoni. All courses are offered in English. Participants can sign up for one of the following four courses:

- Fashion Design

- Fashion Marketing

- Image Consulting

- Interior Design

For further details and to apply visit Global Experiences website

“Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte”, is a original art-gastronomical event taking place in Milan, displaying the possible artistic representations of food.

The event includes gastronomical themed exhibits, theatre, music, and debates and of course tasting sessions.
The goal of “Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte” is looking for innovative ways to draw the attention of people on gastronomic culture, through the artists’ creativity.

Among the initiatives scheduled for next week-end, we suggest “Performance in Decline” - at Società Umanitaria, Via S. Barnaba, 38, on Friday March 31 at 6 PM, where artists exhibit eatable art works, made of food, and four different tasting sessions, on Saturday and Sunday, at 4 and 5 PM.

“Arte da mangiare” runs through April 2, 2006; click here for the complete calendar of the event.

The exhibit ‘’Omaggio all’arte americana'’ was open Saturday March 26, in Roma.

‘’Omaggio all’arte americana'’ , which will be hosted, in Palazzo Valentini, through June 20, is a tribute not only to American art, but also to 60’s Pop art as a whole.

‘The visitors will be able to admire works such as “Widow” and “Dante and Beatrice” by Rauschenberg - along many of his photographies of 40’s and early 50’s, or “Details of a Reinassance painting” by Andy Wharol and many other from artists of Pop art such as Jasper Johns, Mark Tobey etc…

MiArt, International exhibition of modern and contemporary art in Milan, will open to the public on Thursday March 30, 2006.

The exhibition will be divided into three sections. The Moderno section will host galleries presenting artists and works of periods ranging from early XX century to 60’s; among the exhibitors Thessa Herold gallery from Paris and Manuel Barbie’ gallery from Barcelona.

The Contemporaneo section will host 106 galleries exhibiting latest decades’ works.
The special section Art Co is reserved to exhibitors displaying unique art pieces by acclaimed artists.

MiArt is taking place in the city center, at Fieramilanocity - Padiglione 15, saloni 1 e 2, and runs through April 2, 2006.

410 special historical and artistic sites in 190 cities across Italy, will be open to public, on March 25 and 26.

The event, Giornata FAI di Primavera, will make available to public viewing, sites usually not accessible, such as gardens, churches, buildings, ancient villas and industrial archeology sites.

The 25th edition of this event, offer visitors also several themed cultural itineraries, ranging from a tour of Ligurian villas and gardens, to a walk in the baroque center of Ragusa, Sicily.

Among the sites open just for this special recurrence, Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome, Palazzo Clerici and Palazzo Dugnani in Milan, Bardini museum in Florence, and the castle Castello Mediceo in Melegnano, Milan.

The access to the sites is free, but visitors will be given a chance to donate 1 Euro for funding the preservation of this historical and architectural patrimony.