Venice 2021 – a renaissance of sustainable tourism
Building back greener. How tourism in Venice changed forever.
Venice is constantly drowning. Last year it was drowning in its almost unprecedented “acqua alta” and people were rowing across a submerged Piazza San Marco. For over a century, it has been drowning in the relentless flood of tourists that make it almost impossible...
Remote work is accelerating the shift away from big cities – and Italy is the perfect place to make this happen.
For over a decade, gentrification has been a growing, apparently relentless phenomenon in most major cities, all over the world. From Berlin to the Silicon Valley, from the hipster renaissance of Shoreditch, in London, to the skyrocketing real estate prices in Rome,...BIGROCK SCHOOL – Super heroes made in Italy
Italy is about the scent of lemons. Italy is about the sound of people murmuring and laughing in the streets on a warm summer night. And Italy is about people telling each other stories in a very passionate way – over a colourful table laden...
Venetian villas – stories of entrepreneurship
I visited Venice last month and was charmed, not for the first time, by that incredible city. Like many tourists, however, I let it blind me to the rest of the region surrounding it, to its beauty and its charm. It is not uncommon for tourists to only visit the...