Italy & Europe · Lisa Magaro, CTA
The peninsula.
The trip worth taking.
Lisa designs Italy the way she would plan her own trip — the right week, the right hotels, and days built around the crowds, not into them.
Italy isn’t one trip — it’s the right version of Italy for who you are.
The Amalfi for honeymooners. Tuscany for a milestone birthday. Rome when the kids are finally old enough for the Colosseum to mean something. Bologna for people who travel to eat. The wrong version of Italy — the wrong week, the wrong base — is a beautiful disappointment. The right one earns its own chapter.
Lisa spent years in Italy and returns often. The difference she brings is specific: the room with the view worth the upgrade, the driver who knows the back road from Ravello when the coast road is closed, the boat captain who gets to Capri before the crowd boats. The design fee is what puts her on your side of the table, not the vendor’s.
The honeymoon, the milestone, the trip you’ve been talking about for years.
i.
The Honeymoon
Amalfi, Positano, Capri. A private boat, a cliffside dinner, the lemon farm in the hills. Italy does romance better than anywhere on earth when the design keeps pace with the moment.
ii.
The Milestone Celebration
Florence and the Chianti for a milestone birthday, a significant anniversary, a group gathered for something worth marking. The right villa, the right table, the chef who stays afterward. Italy scales to the moment.
iii.
The Family Trip
Rome and Tuscany at the right ages. Not a museum tour with reluctant teenagers — a city with a guide who knows how to make the Colosseum make sense to a twelve-year-old, and a castello in the Chianti where they can run.
iv.
The Girls Trip
Naples for the pizza and the catacombs. Bologna for the food and the jazz clubs. Cinque Terre for the trails and the aperitivo overlooking the sea. Italy built around the meal, the walk, and the place nobody else is going.
If you know where in Italy, we’ll build around it. If you don’t, that’s exactly what the first call is for.
Begin PlanningEight places in Italy we know well.
01CampaniaAmalfi Coast
Sorrento as your base, Capri by boat, Ravello's gardens at dawn before anyone else is there. The coast at its best requires a driver, the right captain, and a room with the view worth paying for.
Sample itinerary
02Central ItalyTuscany & the Chianti
Florence, Siena, and a winery in the Chianti as a base for the hill towns. Three nights in one place, three in another — the classic week done without the classic mistakes.
Sample itinerary
03VenetoVenice
St. Mark's and the Doge's Palace, Murano glassblowing, Harry's Bar, a day trip to Verona for the balcony that inspired Shakespeare. Venice rewards those who stay long enough to see it quiet.
Sample itinerary
04LombardyMilan & Lake Como
The Duomo, The Last Supper, the Navigli at aperitivo hour. A day on the Como ferry between Bellagio and Varenna turns a city trip into something else entirely.
Sample itinerary
05LiguriaCinque Terre
Five villages above the Ligurian Sea, connected by cliff trails and ferries. Monterosso as your base, a day in walled Lucca, and Portofino on the way out.
Sample itinerary
06CampaniaNaples & the South
Italy's most misunderstood city. Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius, underground tunnels, catacombs, and the pizza that started everything. Best seen slowly and without a tight agenda.
Sample itinerary
07Emilia-RomagnaBologna & Parma
The Two Towers, the Quadrilatero market, an anatomical theater carved in wood, underground jazz, and a day trip to Parma for prosciutto and parmesan at the source. Bologna feeds you better than anywhere.
Sample itinerary
08LazioRome
The Colosseum, the Vatican, the Forum — and then the neighborhood walks, the markets, the trattoria that's been there since before anyone can remember. Rome for families with older children lands differently than Rome with a checklist.
Sample itinerary
Honeymooners, milestones, and girls who travel to eat.
Florence & the Chianti
A milestone birthday, six days in Tuscany
Three days inside Florence — the Uffizi, the Accademia, the walk up to Piazzale Michelangelo at dusk. Three days at a Chianti winery with day trips into Siena and the hill towns. A milestone birthday built around the right tables and unhurried time.
Sample itinerary
Rome · Siena · Florence
Tuscany with Teens
Eight nights in April, two teenagers old enough to travel seriously and young enough to still be genuinely surprised by things. The routing moves from small to large — three nights in Siena before the crowds of Florence, then Florence itself, then Rome to close. A castle in the Chianti, the Duomo from the inside and the top, the Colosseum with someone who knows what they're talking about.
Sample itineraryMilan · Lake Como
Couple's Visit to Milan
Four days balancing Milan's grand landmarks with its quieter corners, from the Duomo and The Last Supper to an afternoon at Lake Como and an aperitivo along the Navigli canals.
Sample itineraryVenice · Verona
Three Couples in Venice
Five days across Venice's grandest sights and quietest corners, glassblowing on Murano, a gondola-free afternoon of handmade crafts, drinks at Harry's Bar, and a day trip to Verona for the balcony that inspired Shakespeare.
Sample itineraryCinque Terre · Liguria
Cinque Terre Coast
Five days on the Ligurian coast, from village-hopping the Blue Trail and a boat tour of the five towns to day trips into walled Lucca and the pastel harbor of Portofino.
Sample itinerary
Puglia, Italy
A solo journey through the heel of Italy
Six days in Puglia in April — Brindisi as home base, day trips by train to Lecce and Bari, and a small group tour through the trulli country of Alberobello, Locorotondo, and Ostuni. One of the best decisions a solo woman traveler can make.
Sample itinerary
Sorrento · Amalfi · Capri
An Amalfi Coast Honeymoon
Five days based in Sorrento, with a boat trip to Capri's sea caves, cliffside towns Amalfi and Ravello, and a lemon farm lunch followed by a hands-on cooking class.
Sample itinerary
Naples · Pompeii
Girl's Trip to Naples
Six days of pizza, ruins, and volcanoes, from the mosaics of Pompeii and a hike up Mount Vesuvius to the Spanish Quarter's alleys, underground tunnels, and catacombs beneath the city.
Sample itineraryBologna · Parma
Food for Days in Bologna
Five days in Italy's food capital: the Two Towers and Neptune's fountain, an anatomical theater carved in wood, underground jazz clubs, a raucous match day, and a day trip to Parma for prosciutto and parmesan at the source.
Sample itinerary
The highlight no one could have found on their own was a tucked-away lunch spot in Greve — stunning views, incredible food, not a tourist in sight.
When we ran into a problem with the rental car in Tuscany mid-trip, she was reachable, calm, and helped us problem-solve without having to figure it out alone in a foreign country. That moment alone was worth every penny.
Tell Lisa about your trip.
Lisa Magaro, CTA
Italy, Europe & family travel
A few lines is plenty — where you’re drawn to, who is coming, roughly when. Lisa replies personally, usually the same business day, and the first call is thirty minutes with no fee.
Prefer to talk? 914.222.3253
Now booking 2026 & 2027
Tell us where in Italy you want to go — or ask us where you should.
The first call is thirty minutes. No fee, no obligation.