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Trentino: gastronomic tours to do by e-bike – Italian Cuisine

Eat at kilometer zero. Indeed no: with zero calories. Because there are many kilometers of it, but in an ecological and healthy way riding an e-bike. A mountain tour that is a pleasure for the eyes and the palate

A tour that more than zero kilometer, we could call zero calories! Where you pedal a lot (but with a little help) to taste the local products

All by bike, indeed by e-bike

Is called Kilometrozero bike tour, the itinerary born in Trentino in the Comano area, also called Valle Salus thanks to its ancient spas of Roman origin, where the trend of e-bikes (mountain bikes with pedal assistance) is truly conquering everyone, even the less sporty.

Pedaling on some comfortable ones e-bike the latest generation for about 50 km you can enjoy the wonder of mountain landscapes, with very different views from each other Brenta Dolomites, to the canyons on the Limarò stream, up to the wide valleys of theComano plateau with its painted villages.

At each stage a different local product

Through a voucher that can be purchased at the APT office in Comano, you can book 4 gastronomic stages to choose from among the various proposals, for a personalized itinerary according to your tastes.

The advice is to stay overnight in a farmhouse or B&B where e-bikes are rented (such as at the Garnì Lilly) and leave the following morning for the Il Return of San Lorenzo in Banale or Locanda Fiore di Poia.
Here you can taste a platter of local cheeses and the ciuìga: the typical sausage, the Slow Food pride of the valley, which was originally a real food of the peasant tradition, made with pork processing waste and with the addition of turnips to give more volume, and then be slightly smoked. Today, to make this salami, the noblest parts of the pig are used, for an excellent product.
The ciuìga can be eaten in a seasoned version, cut into slices like a salami, or enjoyed in the "fresh" and boiled version, accompanied by boiled potatoes, strictly of the Montagnine del Lomaso variety, or from purple potatoes, also typical of the area.

Our advice is not to skip the stage from Agrilife, a farm where small fruits are grown and produced jams with original combinations such as strawberries and mint or little-known berries such as aronia are used.
But the real reason to stop here are the very docile donkeys who will welcome you, raised for donkey milk for cosmetic use.

Going through several small and charming villages, including Balbido, also called The painted country, for its murals on the facades of the houses, you reach Rango, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy and famous for its Christmas markets.
Here you can taste the exquisite Walnut pie del Bleggio at the Osteria Il Catenaccio.

The reward for this sporting day can only be a nice one ice cream made with mountain milk, at the M’Ami ice cream shop from Comano. A courageous project born from the idea of three young people who left with three cows and a small shop facing the street, and shortly after, having seen the success, they managed to create a beautiful place to taste their own ice cream.

This gastronomic bike tour can be the perfect solution to combine a bit of healthy sport with the discovery of local goodness, and what is not negligible … the balance of calories at the end of the day will be zero!

Online museums: the best virtual tours to do at home – Italian Cuisine

You can also travel from home, now more than ever. Here are the virtual tours and 3D tours to do in the best museums in the world, while comfortably staying on the sofa

Visit the galleries and i museums most famous in the world, directly from home, respecting the security measures necessary to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. While waiting to travel again, the beauty of the works of art becomes virtual and arrives comfortably in our homes.

Some of the most important museums in the world already had them available digital archives is 3D tourothers have implemented them at this very difficult time, which forces them to close. From Louvre to Uffizi Galleries, look at the gallery above and travel through history, art and beauties kept in the best museums around the world, without neglecting archaeological sites and i monuments most loved.

Online museums: the unmissable

An ideal activity to take a break during the quarantine, but also a way to dream future destinations. To give you an idea of the virtual visits that you can do from home, here are some of the most unmissable.

Vatican museums
One of the largest collections of art in the world: the virtual tour of Sistine Chapel.

Anne Frank house
The museum site allows you to take a virtual tour in the 3D reconstruction of the Anne Frank houseas it was during the Second World War.

Smithsonian
In New York, one of the museums of natural history most visited in the world. Online it is possible to visit temporary, permanent and past exhibitions.

Prado Museum
The Madrid art gallery, among the most important museums in the world, allows you to admire over 5,700 works of art online, including all Goya's masterpieces.

Louvre
The Paris museum offers the opportunity to do 3 virtual tours different: discovering Egyptian antiquities, the old fortress that now houses the museum or the Galerie d'Apollon.

In the gallery above, you will find all the other online museums to visit.

Virtual travel does not end here …

Another site worth visiting is Google Arts & Culture, where in addition to finding all the online museums that can be visited via the internet, you can also take virtual tours of the most beautiful cultural sites and monuments in the world thanks to the Street View function: from the Eiffel Tower to Pompeii excavations, from Coliseum to Stonehenge, from Taj Mahal to Kyoto temples.

Rome: 10 original tours for dream vacations – Italian Cuisine

From the Colosseum to the Trevi Fountain to Piazza di Spagna, Rome is an open-air treasure. If you are tired of the usual tourist visits or want to discover hidden sides of the Eternal City, here are our suggestions

Piazza di Spagna, Trinità dei Monti, Colosseum, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain and so on: Rome it is an open-air treasure to be discovered walking with curious eyes and a swollen heart. The Eternal City has a lot to offer tourists, who come from all over the world every month of the year to explore our history of art, culture and food. Eating a cheese and pepper on the terrace, admiring the Great Roman Beauty rather than slipping into iconic neighborhoods like Trastevere, the Capital offers 360-degree experiences to be seized. In order to propose alternatives to those who want to get to know a less touristy Rome or find aspects of the city that are still little known, we have researched for you 10 original tours to surprise you!

The Eternal City dedicated to …

Influencer

In the era of social media, the smartphone often replaces the camera even on the road to document every newly known place or food tasted. There is certainly the desire to make a beautiful portrait, having beautiful corners of our capital as a backdrop: from the endless steps of Piazza di Spagna to the suggestive Trevi Fountain. Being able to bring home an ideally perfect image, perhaps without anyone around, is a difficult undertaking if not impossible. But don't be discouraged, just book the special private tour in English with Rome ExperienceInsta-Boyfriend Rome Photography Tour". As Chiara Ferragni was photographed by her boyfriend Riccardo Pozzoli, a personal professional photographer will be dedicated exclusively to you. Moving by car, you will go together in special locations like the Campidoglio or Trinità dei Monti for about three hours and you will take home 20 perfect shots.

Theater lovers

Have you ever thought you could meet Claretta Petacci, walk with i Borgia and shake hands with Michelangelo? In Rome it is possible. Through the dramatized guided tours, the story goes on stage breaking down the barriers between stage and armchair transforming streets and monuments in the most exciting scenography ever. Adriano's Travels organizes these fantastic footprint experiences a decade by offering a tight calendar of unique experiences each year. You can choose to learn more about the Marquis del Grillo, get passionate about the family history of I Borgia or follow Michelangelo in the creation of his most famous works as in a journey through time. Hurry to book your time travel, the program closes at the end of September and the dates are in great demand!

Wine & Archeology

History and wine lovers find their perfect size in Rome. There is an organization in the city dedicated to these two passions that allows you to really enjoy the taste of Italian life. THE'Archaeological Aperitif part with a nightly guided tour of the most beautiful sites and monuments of the capital, then just on location you can enjoy recipes of the same age as the site visited. The visit to the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, the largest temple of the Roman Forums, allows you to discover which were the favorite foods of the emperors, going to taste the wine with cedar, for example. The originality lies in the proposed recipes, which have been reconstructed in experimental archeology and delightfully made by local chefs.

Rediscover the origins

If your great-grandparents have emigrated to the United States and would like to learn more about your roots or you grew up in the North with grandparents' stories of southern peasant life, this tour is for you. Giving the main place of the past with all the details in your possession to the agency Rome Experience, the quality investigators specialists will trace the story for you. Like a reunion, experience Tailor-made its aim is to find the origins between food, folklore and affection.

Treasure hunt

And if instead of following a classic tourist itinerary, we immersed ourselves in the city discovering "Treasures and Secrets of Rome" with a game? There Fragrance Tour proposes a different way to go in search of the wonders of Rome and reveal its secrets and its hidden corners. Through the solution of puzzles and quizzes you will discover famous monuments, enchanting and suggestive places, sometimes impossible to find on tourist guides, statues and fountains, plaques and engravings, of which you will learn history and legends: to solve the puzzles you will have to use, from time to time, culture , fantasy and intuition or, in case you get lost, you can always ask for help from the Romans!

Like Audrey Hepburn

Self Roman holidays it's your favorite movie, this special tour of Rome is for you. Like Princess Ann clinging to American journalist Joe Bradley played by Gregory Peck, you can visit the city on a Vespa. The agency Rome For You organizes the Vespa Tour: aboard fascinating and original vintage Vespas driven by an experienced Tour Leader who with a second Vespa will lead you to the discovery of the City beyond those that are traditionally offered to tourists and therefore offering you the opportunity to penetrate the city deep inside, right into his heart to get to know the most spectacular and sumptuous monuments and at the same time experience the human and popular aspect of the Eternal City.

Creepy

The evening walk "Specters and restless souls in the streets of Rome"Will take you through history, legend and fantasy in a journey among the ghosts that populate the Eternal City. Occult presences, many of them feminine, with a tormented life, that at night still love to visit the places that saw them protagonists alive, making them even more suggestive and fascinating. From Piazza San Pietro, an unusual and curious itinerary follows in the footsteps of Roman ghosts, from the ghost of Julius Caesar and the column of spirits to the supernatural events of the Pantheon.

Second World War

History buffs will be happy to be able to retrace a strong experience like the guided tour at Savoy Bunker, Built between 1942 and 1943 for the Savoy family, who lived in the Palazzina Reale, today the seat of the embassy of Egypt. After a short walk in the park to learn about the history of the villa and of the Savoy family, we reach the bunker that can be visited both from outside and from inside, where the original materials recovered and the rooms set up are visible. The visit ends with the screening of a short documentary by Fabio Toncelli which collects original photographs and films on the history of the royal family and the war years. It is interesting to know that the bunker remained in a state of neglect for about 70 years, then reopened to the public in 2016 after a work of recovery promoted by the Capitolina Superintendency for Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Rome and carried out byRoma Underground Association. It will remain open to the public until 2021.

Street Art in Rome

Rome is now to be considered as one of the most interesting European capitals of the street art. The works created by important artists constitute a real open-air museum of great visual impact. Only in our capital is it possible to enjoy the mix of works urban between districts of social housing, industrial archeology complexes and remains of ancient Rome. By bike or on foot, the Street Art Tour leads you to peer at the facades of industrial buildings and residential buildings in different neighborhoods such as Tor Marancia, Quadraro, Torpignattara, Ostiense with wide eyes.

Rome for free

Defined by New York Times as a place not to be missed in Rome, le Diocletian Baths, the largest public baths of ancient Rome, are now fully accessible in all their glory thanks to the first Sunday of the month with free admission. Take advantage!