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“Certi luoghi non si guardano soltanto. Si respirano con l’anima.” (Fabrizio Caramagna)
“Certain places exist that cannot be fully appreciated with your eyes. They enter deeper into your soul with each breath.”
Verona and its surrounding territory are, for me, an immense home in which to live and move, always searching for new corners to discover and share with others. It seems as if each palace, church, bridge, or monument were wearing a dress telling its story through the style, the building material, the evolution over time. The balconies, windows, portals, and frescoes become the jewels that make it precious. The inhabitants liven this dwelling with their rhythms, passions, and trades. A tourist guide is the key to understanding this complex environment, the lens that will let you discover the details and that will help you to interpret this intertwining of history, art, culture, and life.
My name is Laura, I was born in the province of Verona, and I have always been in love with my city and its territory! I graduated in 1990 from the Linguistic High School (English, French and German language). During my studies at the University of Verona, I attended an international Russian language seminar for technical-commercial translation at the University of Bergamo. I then graduated in 1995 in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Russian and English languages) from the University of Verona. I worked for a few years as an interpreter and translator for an import-export company. In the meantime, in 1997 I became a licensed tourist guide for Verona and its province for the Russian and Italian languages, later also for the English and French languages. In 1998 I became a licensed tour leader for the Russian and Italian languages. The profession of tourist guide made me start this adventure in the world of art, which has involved and fascinated me since I was a child. It gives me the opportunity to meet people of different nationalities every day and lead them with my passion to discover the places where I was born and raised and that every day are able to amaze me in their most hidden corners. The love for the food and wine of my land allowed me to obtain in 2015 a Sommelier certification (third level) at the Italian Association of Sommeliers (AIS), in 2018 an ANAG Grappa Taster certification (second level) and in 2022 an ONAF Cheese Taster certification (first level).
I love accompanying tourists to discover Verona, Lake Garda, and Valpolicella through art, history, food and wine in a tour organized over some hours or some days. In my tours, I try to communicate the culture and positive emotions I feel from the contact with this wonderful and varied territory.
VERONA Let’s read art with the curiosity of the traveller
Verona is a city with an amazing atmosphere! More than 2000 years of history and art coexist side by side within its walls. It is incredible to perceive this harmony of styles, colours, antiquity, and modernity that touch and never collide. Starting from the Arena and the monuments of the Roman period, I like to draw the attention of tourists to the facades of the once richly frescoed palaces of the Venetian period, to the portals, the "teste da porton" (marble heads in the keystones of the arches), the beautiful ancient balconies… In my guided tours, I love talking about the Adige River and its bridges with incredible views of the surrounding hills. For the most romantic, we will follow in the footsteps of the most famous love story in the world, that of Romeo and Juliet.
Over the years, I have collected ideas from the many questions tourists asked me about Verona: each led me to research and describe a detail that had impressed them. That is why I love to highlight these details, which link the various periods of the city's history and tell its secrets.
LAKE GARDA Castles, ancient parish churches, and fortresses where lake and mountain meet
What do I recommend about Lake Garda? Visiting it with the spirit of the travellers of the Grand Tour, moved by the charm of culture and curiosity… letting yourself be amazed by this "wonderful display of nature" (“eine herrliche Naturwirkung”, as Goethe called it). You will never forget the colour contrasts, the nuances of ever changing light, the variety of mountain shapes surrounding it, the colourful mosaic of plants and flowers that inhabit it. Here we will visit beautiful villages, Scaliger castles, Romanesque churches, the Venetian Works of Defence of the fortified city of Peschiera del Garda - UNESCO heritage site… We will taste its wines and oil, admire its romantic sunsets and take pictures of amazing panoramas. You will know the secrets of the travellers of the past that I will tell you with pleasure.
VALPOLICELLA Art and wine tasting
Wine tasting is an art, and in Valpolicella, a beautiful land of great red wines north of Verona, the world of wine and art are deeply linked. This is why, as a tourist guide and sommelier, I love talking about wine among historic cellars and new ones, Renaissance villas, ancient palaces, and Romanesque parish churches. A guided tour and wine tasting to live together an artistic, sensory, and aesthetic experience.
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