Elena Concari

Cruise companies have adopted health protocols that allow you to travel in complete peace of mind. The French luxury cruise company Ponant Cruises boasts a yachting and casual luxury atmosphere, great attention to detail and service, always 5 * level.

Surrounded to the south by the morainic hills and to the north by the mountain ranges, Lake Garda is the largest of the Italian lakes. Due to the temperate climate, the rich vegetation and the characteristic fauna, Garda is considered by people to be a true earthly paradise.

If you are thinking of spending a holiday in Sardinia, on the Costa Smeralda, one of the most exclusive coastal stretches in Italy, the 5-star Grand Hotel Poltu Quatu could be an excellent choice. The name of the resort is already a program. Poltu Quatu, facing the island of Caprera, in Gallura dialect means "hidden port”.

A castle stands on a hill around a medieval watchtower, built to look over the whole Val d'Orcia, in a time when the struggles between Florence and Siena for supremacy were almost customary. In more peaceful times, in the Renaissance, the panoramic position is too happy not to transform the castle into the residential villa of Velona, ​​which is represented in the Vatican map gallery thanks to the work of the famous geographer and mathematician Ignazio Santi.