Category: Golf and tourism

Tero Parkkinen in Italy part 2: let’s go to Tuscany!

Written on 30 October 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism, Italy4golf EN.

Tero Parkkinen FAM trip continues with the Florentine stage: on Wednesday 15 Tero and Alberto compete on the course of Le Pavoniere Golf & Country Club in Prato. The day is not the best, but this perhaps makes the game even more exciting. Despite the grey day and a very wet field, in fact, Arnold Palmer’s unmistakable architectural design makes this field very challenging, even if at first glance it appears simple! Water obstacles and bunkers are always lurking and you need a lot of attention if you don’t want to end up in situations from which it is difficult to recover …

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Tero Parkkinen in Italy: Italy4golf Experiences are first class

Written on 27 October 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism, Italy4golf EN.

Tero Parkkinen, Finnish Italy4golf ambassador and thirty years journalist specialized in golf, comes to Italy to test the quality of our Experiences first hand. A five-day FAM trip accompanied with great pleasure by the Italy4golf team between Lombardy and Tuscany, a tour to discover the best Italian golf courses and some selected local excellences.

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A perfect day at the Castelfalfi Golf Club

Written on 19 October 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism.

By Alberto Genovesi (Italy4golf co-founder)

We leave early in the morning for a golf destination that has always been in our wishes: the Castelfalfi Golf Club, in the heart of Tuscany. It had been a long time, in fact, that my wife Ilaria and I wanted to take a holiday in these areas and play at Castelfalfi, for two excellent reasons:

“Lost balls in Italy”

Written on 7 October 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism, Italy4golf EN, Lost balls in Italy EN.

Golf Tales – by Roberto Van Heugten

To lose balls is the first lesson the golfer learns at the beginning of his entrance in the course.

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Golf Lakes

Written on 26 September 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism, Lost balls in Italy EN.

“…Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude: gaudete vosque, o Lydiae lacus undae: ridete, quicquid est domi cachinnorum!”

(“… Hello, dear Sirmione, rejoice of your lord; and rejoice you, Lydian waves of the lake: all of you echo and laugh of the house!” – Caio Valerio Catullo)

The Franciacorta Festival 2020 kicks off this weekend

Written on 10 September 2020. Posted in Golf and food, Golf and tourism.

At its eleventh edition, the event that attracts the leading experts in the sector every year as well as thousands of enthusiasts, this year doubles, with the weekends of 12-13 and 19-20 September.

A long weekend in Florence

Written on 30 July 2020. Posted in Experiences, Experiences Tuscany, Golf and tourism.

Enjoy 2 days of wonderful golf at 2 of the most glorious and historic golf clubs in Florence, in addition a tasting of the best Chianti Classico productions in the area, directly in the wineries guided by an excellent sommelier and Italy4golf Italian Ambassador!

Lake Garda – great golf, history and wine

Written on 21 July 2020. Posted in Experiences, Experiences Lombardy, Golf and tourism.

How about a magnificent weekend of golf at Lake Garda?
Enjoy two among the best Italian Golf Club and take the chance for a day trip to the Sirmione peninsula and a visit to a historic winery where you can taste superior local wine and other goodies!

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Kafka looking for peace in Riva del Garda

Written on 2 July 2020. Posted in Golf and tourism.

Kafka came to Lake Garda twice in totally different circumstances and both stayed in Riva del Garda, which, at that time, was still under the Habsburg Empire, but which for him, as for many other guests, was already considered Italy.

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I Balzini – Wines produced with passion in the heart of Tuscany

Written on 29 June 2020. Posted in Golf and food, Golf and tourism, Wine tales EN.

In a border area between the Chianti Classico and the Val d’Elsa, halfway from Florence and Siena, overlooking the marvellous city of San Gimignano and its towers, for almost 40 years I Balzini has been producing long-lived, elegant wines. The winery was founded by Vincenzo D’Isanto, later joined by his wife Antonella and more recently by his daughter Diana. Since few years Diana is leading the family business.