Amati Travel & Tours

09/24/2022

In the heart of Rome’s lively Trastevere neighborhood is the oldest pharmacy in the city, dating back to the 16th century.
Learn more in our dual-language article here: https://bit.ly/3oZURKf

07/30/2022

Inspired by a 15th-century editor, Pablo Olbi pushes to keep this from being the last chapter.

05/22/2022

Great idea!

Mail yourself a postcard every time you travel and eventually you'll have the best collection of a lifetime of memories!
The snippets you record on the back will be treasures 20 years down the track and what better way to pass on a record of your life to your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren...

05/16/2022

03/25/2022

Would love to do this tour!

12/19/2021

From today, 18th December, you can get from Milan to Paris in 6 hours on Frecciarossa trains (two per day)! Beats flying!

12/11/2021

Another spot to add to the list next time I am in Firenze.

Last week I visited the Conventino Literary Cafe (Il Conventino Caffè Letterario Arte) in via Giano della Bella 20. It's open daily from 9 am to 11 pm (closed on Tuesday).

The charming and evocative Vecchio Conventino (the Old Little Convent) has a complex history. It was founded in the Nineteenth Century as the monastery of Saint Teresa of the barefoot Carmelite Nuns. In 1917, it was turned into a hospital to welcome the surviving soldiers of the Battle of Caporetto. At the beginning of the Twenties, it was sold to a private individual, Paolo Uzielli, who signed contracts for the rental of the premises to be used as craftsman workshops and artists’ ateliers. Since then, the Vecchio Conventino has become closely linked to work, handicraft, art and the social history of the Oltrarno district, very popular among intellectuals, artists and philosophers. During the Fascist period, it housed an illegal printing house, and during the Second World War, it was used as a shelter for the partisans. This complex has been completely restored by the Municipality of Florence and now it is hosting around 20 traditional craft workshops.

In the Caffè Letterario, you can browse books and newspapers in the newsstand, bookshop and library space dedicated to the world of creativity and the history of the neighbourhood and of Florence, taste the specialties of the "Artist's Menu", use the workstations with internet service free wi-fi and enjoy the green space in the cloister returned to public use thanks to this project.

The Café has become a point of reference for the whole neighbourhood, an inclusive, social and meeting place constantly animated by cultural events and dedicated to the art and craftsmanship of the Oltrarno district.

12/11/2021

Gorgeous restaurant

12/02/2021

Would love to do this tour one day

SeeVenice Guided Tours by Luisella Romeo

11/13/2021

Finding crossways of food in an Italian classic  

10/31/2021

10/18/2021

Alitalia closes on October 14, but Italy's high-speed trains, the Frecce and Italo networks, are set to increase their passenger numbers.

09/30/2021

09/24/2021

Venice Lido is an island that till the middle of the 19th century was pretty forgotten. It then changed into a trendy icon of modernity

09/22/2021

Tiramisu is one of the most well-known and popular Italian desserts eaten with a spoon in the world: “tiramisu” is the fifth most recognized Italian word amongst Europeans, and appears in the vocabulary of as many as 23 different languages!

Perhaps due to its simplicity or high nutritional values, it’s almost impossible, especially in Italy, to find someone who has never tasted a spoonful.

But this dessert is also famous for and characterized by a longstanding debate, as different Italian regions vie to be crowned its birthplace. So let’s try to trace the origin of tiramisu through its history.

There are many legends around the history of tiramisu. The first has Tuscany in the lead role, and says that tiramisu was invented in Siena during a visit by the Grand Duke Cosimo III de Medici: at that time the dessert was called “zuppa del duca” (the Duke’s soup). Next we’re off to Piedmont, or more precisely Turin, where it is said that this dessert was invented for Camillo Benso, the count of Cavour, and then arrived in Emilia-Romagna via Forlì writer Pellegrino Artusi, who describes a similar recipe in his book “Kitchen science and the art of eating well”, published in 1891, although the mascarpone is replaced by butter.

However, these attempted claims were not considered credible or truthful, and the real dispute arose between the regions of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, in the areas of Treviso and Udine respectively. Treviso places the source of tiramisu, initially called “Tiremesù”, at the end of the 1960s at the restaurant “Le Beccherie”, from an idea by pastry chef Loly Linguanotto to rework a typical Venetian dessert, the Sbatudin, a mixture of egg yolks whipped with sugar.

Friuli Venezia Giulia, on the other hand, posits that the “Tirimisù” appeared at hotel-restaurant Roma in Tolmezzo (Udine) during the 1950s, and it is this latter story that has the upper hand. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Resources has actually assigned the paternity of tiramisu to Friuli, adding the dessert to the Friulian list of PAT – Traditional Agrifood Products. But Veneto hasn’t thrown in the towel yet!

Are you a "tiramisu" addicted? 🥄

03/18/2021

How much do you really know about this lifelike legend?