Marco Carnovale

Synopsis By the time the first public performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ('Eroica') took place in Vienna in 1805, a pri...

I am in front of the Italian consulate's door at 8:30 before it opens its doors for the week. It's an endless series of phone calls ...

A gloomy Sunday. The sky is gray just like my mood. Most everything is closed down, not much to do except trying to cheer myself up for the ...

A day that started well with a tour of the Schoenbrunn palace turned into one of the worst nightmares of my life. After the tour, we went ...

We leave Salzburg at 10:00am for an uneventful drive to Vienna. In the evening we get tickets to watch The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino...

Breakfast at 9:00am, followed by a quiet walk in the downtown area. We visit first the cathedral , where Mozart was baptized, then the Franz...

Crossing the Alps We leave Venice at 9:45am and take the Autostrada to Vittorio Veneto, then a regional road to Cortina and the Austrian...