Travel Italy: Vacation Packages, Tips, Tours of Italy

Florence offers its visitors a chance to experience the intense emotions of Tango with the annual Florence Tango Festival.

The event, taking place from April 24 through 27, includes shows, art exhibitions, workshops, dinners and free Tango classes.
The venue is the Saschall Theatre.

When: April 24 through 27.
Where: Florence - Saschall theatre.
For programme details, visit the English page of the festival website at http://firenzetangofestival.com/festival/english.htm.

A quick guide to antiques street markets held in the major art cities this end of April.
In Venice “The Little Market of Miracles” is held in the Campi and Campielli (Campo Santa Maria Nova) close to the Church of the Miracles. (April 25 and and various dates)

In Milan the Antiques Market is held along a canal in the Navigli for about two kilometres. It features more than 400 merchants offering anything among ethnic antiques, clocks, porcelain, jewellery, dolls, glass, books and much more (when: Apr 27; monthly market).

In Naples, “Villa Comunale Antique Fair” is held on the third and fourth weekends of every month in the Villa Comunale gardens. It offers everything from antiques, modern furniture, arts and crafts to collectors’ items and curiosities.

In Rome you can find classical collector’s items and antiques at “La Soffitta Sotto i Portici“, a monthly bargain market taking place every first and third Sunday of the month in Piazza Augusto Imperatore.

April 25, holiday of the Patron Saint of the Venice, San Marco (St. Mark), Venetians males use to gift a red rose to their beloved.

So San Marco Day for Venetians is also the “Festa del Bòcolo” — Bòcolo in Venetian dialect means rose bloom.

Men all over the city give the women in their lives roses.
Wives, lovers, mistresses, friends, mothers and daughters around the city all receive roses.

Rome celebrates its birth on April 21, the “Natale di Roma“. This is the day (according to Varrone, a historic in the Ancient Rome) the city was founded in 753BC by Romulus.

Celebrations including parades, firework displays and traditional Roman banquets will be taking place at venues such as the Aventine Hill, the Roman Forum and the Campidoglio.

If you have never seen a gladiator show, now you could get a chance to attend it.
When: April 18 through 21 (annual)
Where: Rome
For details visit the “Gruppo Storico Romano” website at http://www.gsr-roma.com.

Just eight months after launching its Venice - Dubai service, Emirates Airline is to start daily non-stop flights to Milan and Rome.

Beginning July 1st, Emirates’ flights from Dubai to Milan and from Dubai to Rome will be non stop and running seven days a week.

The Milan route will be served exclusively by an Airbus A330-200, as the Rome’s will continue to be served by a Boeing 777-300.
Both will offer First, Business and Economy Class.