A trip to Italy is always a discovery: a never-ending discovery full of emotion and surprise. More than half of the world art heritage is located in Italy: a huge number of treasures ready to be admired in all their splendour.

The choice is really very wide: one can find the best masterpieces for each historical period and each art style. The works of art that Italy boasts may date back to different epochs and yet be geographically very close. In the same day and in the same town one can easily visit a Roman archaeological site, a baroque church and a modern art museum. Evidence of the past and its rich history can be found everywhere, not only in large cities, but also - and above all - in the hundreds of towns and villages that still preserve the atmosphere and the fascination of a millennium old history, when Italy dominated and was dominated, but always stood at the centre of Europe and its cultural and artistic life.

Apart from the many Greek and Roman treasures, which take us back to the dawn of our civilization, Renaissance is the peak of Italian artistic magnificence: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Brunelleschi, Bramante and many other contemporary artists where the authors of the highest forms of art expressions that are still unsurpassed.

Their masterpieces are visited and admired by millions of tourists and students, researches, critics, restoration experts and art lovers. Faced with the grace and sophistication of the Italian art heritage anybody can grasp the unique opportunity of experiencing beauty in an emotional, fabulous, all-encompassing experience.