At a time when we board a plane in complete autonomy – scanning documents, boarding passes and luggage through automated systems, without any human contact with airline staff – organizing a trip guided by a travel agency has become a true luxury. Not because of the price, but because agencies too often offer the purchase [...]

This unique citrus fruit, whose scent everyone knows but which few have ever seen, grows in Calabria.Along a narrow coastal strip about a hundred kilometers long, bordering the Ionian Sea and reaching up to around 300 meters above sea level, 95% of the world’s bergamot production is harvested. As in all citrus orchards, the air [...]

Waking up in the morning to a sky already blue, the sun gently warming the air, and the sea stretching out on the horizon. It may seem like a small detail, but it’s not at all, especially for those arriving from Paris, where the days start before sunrise, in the cold and gloom. Autumn is [...]

 At the end of the 11th century, Saint Bruno of Cologne, founder of the Carthusian order, chose Calabria as a place of retreat and decided to build the order’s second monastery in the Serre mountains, after the one near Grenoble. The establishment of the Charterhouse attracted artisans and workers of all kinds, who settled nearby [...]

Calabria is a land inhabited since prehistoric times. Thanks to its geographical position at the heart of the Mediterranean, it has welcomed peoples from all over the world. These peoples have left their mark, still clearly visible today in the local customs and culture. You might come to Calabria for the sea: with its 800 [...]