The Jewish presence in the Italian Peninsula can be traced back as far as 200 B.C. during the late Roman Republic.

Veneto and la "Serenissima" Republic of Venice

Amazing Campania: The Region of Naples, Capri, Pompeii and The Amalfi Coast

A sense of wideness of history, of beauty, of myth permeates any journey to this timeless land

Is there anything that we can possibly say about two of the most iconic regions in Italy that you haven't already heard?

Wonderful Piedmont

Volcanoes and Greek temples, Arab gardens and sparkling golden mosaics, turquoise sea and precious princely palaces, salt flats and windmills, the light and the scent of flowers ... Sicily is a geography of the soul, a land of divine grace and beauty.

Lilipan will show you Europe’s most beautiful city, Florence, blessed by Renaissance. You will find Made in Italy stories from Medici fashion to Valentino, Gucci, Ferrari and Lamborghini. Through our tailored tours you will discover an Italy beyond your dreams.

Where Italians travelled, their food went with them. No cuisine is as widespread as that of Italy!

Inspired by the American Revolution, Napoleon won many battles on behalf of revolutionary France and became one of history’s most prominent leaders

The Jewish Community of Rome - The True Romans

Sicily is one of the most attractive islands in the Mediterranean Sea and has been a hub of migration routes for millennia. Jews are thought to have settled there at least as early as the 1st century, after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.

There are more synagogues in Piedmont than in any other Italian region, and their great variety reveals the rich texture of Jewish history and the centuries-old presence of Jews in this Region.

Today, no barrier or signpost marks where Venice ends and its ghetto begins, but linger long enough in the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo and you will feel the wall of the closing in.

In my long experience as a Tour Guide in Florence, I have noticed that many American and European Jews are used to visit the Jewish part of town whenever they travel abroad. Whether is Rome or Paris or Budapest, they go to synagogues, they seek out local Jews, they frequently make a donation.

The Food in Liguria is wonderful, as are the wines. The first Pasta with Pesto recipe goes all the way back to the 1800s.

For centuries, the massive marble quarries above the Tuscan town of Carrara have yielded the raw material for the polished masterpieces of the great Classical sculptors, not to mention the great Italian Masters like Michelangelo, Canova and Bernini

We can’t make the point strongly enough about how incredible Italian food and wine are, especially in Tuscany, and a visit to the Chianti or the Val d’Orcia regions absolutely must include tastings of local specialties.

In Piedmont there is no sea, or, at least, it has not been there for 5 million years, and yet, a marine fish, anchovy, is often present in the Piedmontese cookbook, indeed it is an essential ingredient of the iconic dish, a symbol same of Piedmont: the bagna càuda.

It was the King's theater, commissioned by the shrewd Duke Vittorio Amedeo, to the architect Juvarra, which the "Savoy fox" brought to Turin in 1713 together with the royal crown.