Born in Veneto region, based in Florence, I am a qualified tour guide, tour leader, garden historian and travel designer with a true passion for art, foreign languages, travels, books, and garden history.

I firmly believe in tourism as a source of value and an opportunity for cultural exchange. I promote slow tourism and an approach that respects museum spaces, landscape, and people who live and experience it.

I’m curious, restless, enthusiastic: always suffering to know, to study, to see in an everlasting, eternal passion of life.

It doesn’t matter which kind of cultural knowledge you’re carrying on: the key-point is to transmit passion, to enhance emotions and to nourish dreams and soul.

After all, Claude Monet used to say: “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love“.

Graduated in ‘Planning and Management of Cultural Tourism‘ at Padua University in 2010, I studied seven foreign languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and Portuguese. 

Between 2005 and 2019, I have attended several study-holidays abroad (La Ciotat, Saint Petersburg, Kyoto, Salvador da Bahia, Bath) and in 2007-2008 I was a student on the Erasmus exchange program at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

In 2011 I became a licensed tour leader (English, French, Spanish, Russian) and in 2016 I became a licensed tour guide in Florence (English, French, Spanish). 

In 2022 I obtained a license as travel agent in Tuscany.

After a garden tour to Naples and Amalfi Coast in 2015, when I worked as a tour leader for the garden club „Association Acanthe“ (Franche-Comté), my passion for garden history bloomed.

During this new experience, I appreciated so much the relaxed, cosy and blissful atmosphere of the garden tours, a slower kind of tourism imbued with nature. Taking a stroll through the gardens is a gift: it offers memorable views in a sensory feast and gives you a sense of deep wellness and happiness!

That’s the reason why I have started studying garden history.

In 2020 I attended the online course ‘English Landscape Gardens from 1650 to present day’ at Oxford University and  the online course ‘Garden Design’ held by Dr Maria Chiara Pozzana at Garden Design Firenze. 

In 2021 I attended the online courses ‘The Medici gardens‘ and ‘Veneto Gardens‘ held by Dr Deborah Trentham at The Garden Historians. 

In 2021-2023 I studied for the diploma of “Garden History” at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. The two-year diploma allowed me to delve into the history of British and Italian gardens, Victorian horticulture, the historical aspects of gardening in Great Britain, and the legislation and conservation of historic gardens in Europe. During these two years I also undertook numerous study trips to British and Italian gardens.

In 2024, I attended the online course ‘Oltre il giardino. Seminare conoscenze‘  held by Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e Attività Culturali, organized by the Ministry of Culture and financiated by the European Union – NextGeneration EU.

In 2026, my specialist article ‘The Evolution of Roof Gardens in Medicean Florence: hanging gardens, orticini and the giardino di piazza‘ has been published on the summer edition of the Gardens Trust Journal.

Since 2022, I have been regularly working as tour guide, tour leader, and travel designer on tailor-made garden tours to the gardens of Tuscany, Lazio, Veneto, Lake Como and Lake Maggiore for the French garden clubs “Union des Parcs et Jardins de Normandie” and “Association des Parcs et Jardins de Paris et Ouest Parisien“, for the American tour operator Riccio Travel, for the English tour operator Brookland Travel, and for the Spanish tour operator Entre Jardines.

Meanwhile, I have been working as a tour guide for the ‘Firenze Greenway’ cultural association along with Dr Maria Chiara Pozzana as part of the ‘Estate Fiorentina’ 2021 project and as a tour leader for the Aeres University of Applied Sciences – Wageningen (Netherlands) during study trips in Tuscany, focused on gardens and landscape architecture.