Cultural Italy

Cultural Italy

Phones & Cell Phones

a man sitting on the ground in front of a large building.

PHONES & CELL PHONES INFO
Most likely you can use your current cell phone in Italy. Please ask your carrier for rates and details. Usually phone calls with a US phone cost around $1 per minute and messages 25 to 50 cents each. Otherwise, cellular phones can be rented for the duration of your trip.

Weathers Family Trip

Florence

Hi Luana - 
Thanks to you and Cultural Italy for helping us arrange our recent trip to Milan, Lake Como, and Florence!  We appreciated your constructive feedback when designing the itinerary and the final version you produced mirrored exactly what we had discussed.

Aphy and Randy Lennon

Hi Marcella, you planned a perfect, first trip to Italy for Aphy and me, thank you!
Your travel suggestions were an outstanding addition to what we wanted to see and experience on our trip.

Eating Italian Style

Eating Italian Style

TRADITIONS
Italians love to talk about food. Men and women alike. At some point in our conversation, whether we’re in Beijing or on an African Safari, either with friends or mere acquaintances, food becomes the main topic, and we engage in lengthy and detailed descriptions of how to make a dish, or nostalgic talks on how much we miss our food back ...

Introducing Lake Como

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Te, Larii Maxime, “to you Larius, the greatest”: with these words, Publio Virgilio Marone used to celebrate the beauty of Lake Como in the first century before Christ. Since then, many well known personalities have praised the magnificent landscapes and luxurious villas surrounding its waters.

Seven Star Galleria

SUPER LUXURY HOTEL in Milan
Until some time ago, staying at 5-star hotel meant that you were getting the best of the best in terms of comfort and luxury. Well, not many will know, but 5 star hotel amenities and services are surpassed now; scattered around the world, and including one in Italy.

Tristram’s Vacation

Colosseum

Hello Emmanuela!
We had an absolutely wonderful time!  Everything was great.  The planning for the trip, transportation, the incredible guides you selected, the hotels, the sites, absolutely everything.  Thank you so very much.  It was an incredible trip.  We really appreciate it.

Susan Anderer

Family in Venice

Hi Luana,
I hope you had a nice holiday!  I just wanted to thank you for arranging such a wonderful trip for me and the girls.  We had a wonderful time on our trip and really enjoyed the variety that you arranged for us. 

La Befana

ITALY TRADITIONS
In the United States, New Year's Day is the climax and the end of the Christmas holidays while in Italy we have an extra bonus – so to speak - of about a week. On January 6 we celebrate the Epiphany, a Christian celebration that symbolizes the Three Kings’ arrival at the Baby Jesus’ manger, and that only recently has been officially recognized as a national holiday.