Discovery Italy

Italy means culture, art and history.
The artistic beauties are everywhere and every corner of the country proposes countles, wonderful surprises.
Italy has the largest number of artistic and documentary heritage declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
The cities of art are not only those universally known as Rome, Florence, Milan, Assisi, Venice, Verona, Siena, Pisa or Naples, but also many others because the whole country is dotted with historical towns of incomparable beauty.

Italy has represented over the centuries a passage area for many people and civilizations that have left a remarkable wealth of historical art, considered world heritage by UNESCO.

• The presence of Greek civilization in the regions of southern Italy has left many monuments of outstanding beauty such as temples and theatres in the city of Siracusa, Taormina and Agrigento in Sicily.
• The Greek civilization was followed by the Etruscans who occupied a much wider area, leaving several testimonials in various cities of Umbria, Campania and Lazio. One of the most important Etruscan cities in Italy is Perugia with presence of cemeteries and Etruscan tombs which are of great historical importance but also other cities as for example the city of Cerveteri or Viterbo.
• With the arrival of the roman period and the Roman Empire, the artistic culture, typical of that period, was spread throughout Italy and there are countless of evidences in Rome with its beautiful monuments like the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, the area of the Imperial Forum, the Arch of Constantine and many others, or at Pompei and Ercolano in Campania region with its archaeological sites. The roman remains can be found in whole Italy, especially in the north as road constructions, infrastructure and water systems in cities like Aosta, Turin and Verona.
• The longobards reached cities of the current Lombardy and left many evidences of their presence. Cities like Milan, Monza or Brescia are just a few examples.

The italian churches and cathedrals are full of paintings and art works from the Renaissance period.
The frescoes of Capella Sistina in Rome or the churches of Florence, Assisi, Padua, Ferrara, Urbino and other cities...are of extraordinary beauty and represents a heritage for the whole humanity.

There are countless of evidences from past civilizations that have succeed one another, collected in museums, collections or archaeological sites and are still part of the modern civilization:

• Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
• Uffizi Gallery in Florence
• Capitoline Museums in Rome
• Egyptian Museum in Turin

With Discover Italy Now you are going to explore the immense historical and artistic heritage of the Italian culture:
exciting itineraries and travel “through the ancient Greek and Roman periods” until the modern civilization, equally rich in artistic and cultural influences!


The guided and not guided journeys organized by Discover Italy Now can have different duration: 1 week-end, 1 week, 10 days or more.

Some of our proposals:


Arts, history and culture in Milan

Florence and the hills

Rome, the eternal city

Siena and the countryside

Florence and the monuments

Roma and the Vatican Museum


All the other proposals....