Travel + Leisure A-List

2011 Travel + Leisure A-List

Tenth Consecutive Year

Ten is the lucky number! For the tenth consecutive year, Select Italy, has made Travel & Leisure magazine's annual A-List of Top Travel Agents. "We're more committed than ever to bringing the best that Italy has to offer to discerning travelers," says Select Italy president Andrea Sertoli.

Andrea recommends the island of Ponza, still untouched by mass tourism. You can read about his recent visit as well as insider tips about the island at the Select Italy Blog.

2010 Travel + Leisure A-List

We're honored to once again be named to Travel + Leisure's A-List of travel agents, what T+L describes as "the best of the best - specialists who always deliver." At T+L, they say �an expert guide can make all the difference in your travel planning experience � from getting the best rates to finding the perfect destination for your next trip.� We at Select Italy agree and say: Let your Italian trip of a lifetime begin right here…today!

Click here to read the press release.

2009 Travel + Leisure A-List

We're excited to once again be named to Travel + Leisure's A-List of travel agents, what T+L describes as "the best of the best - specialists who always deliver."

2008 Travel + Leisure A-List

Andrea Sertoli and our roster of Italian travel experts have been designing custom trips and meeting clients' specific needs for over a decade. Here's a recent example that T+L included in their September 2008 issue:

[quote] [Select Italy arranged] for an on-site scholar and an art historian to explain to a dot-com billionaire and his 11-year-old twin sons the convoluted history of a medieval fresco in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, and determine its authenticity using X-rays and CSI-like, state-of-the-art archaeology techniques. [quote]

2007 Travel + Leisure A-List

Dream Trip: Exploring the Friuli region, spending time on its white-sand beaches, and climbing the craggy Italian Alps. Enjoying the quiet of this corner of Italy, which is off the mainstream tourist circuit, and above all eating its cuisine - prosciutto and prosecco, in particular.

Read more about Andrea's dream trip in Friuli.

2006 Travel + Leisure A-List

Dream Trip: A leisurely car trek through Italy's Le Marche: beginning in Urbino, a Renaissance jewel dominated by the 15th-century castle of the dukes of Montefeltro; heading toward the Adriatic to attend the annual Rossini festival in Pesaro, the composer's hometown; returning inland to tiny Pergola and its 17th-century theater.

2005 Travel + Leisure A-List

Dream Trip: A month in Puglia and neighboring Basilicata to see Baroque and Norman architecture and visit boutique vineyards, culminating in a week relaxing by the pool at Il Melograno, a 17th-century farming estate in Monopoli, Puglia.

2004 Travel + Leisure A-List

Dream Trip: Exploring Piedmont - the area will host the Winter Olympics in 2006 (the skiing is great), and Turin has the best collection of Egyptian Antiquities outside of Cairo, as well as divine gianduja (a blend of chocolate and hazelnut) treats.

2003 Travel + Leisure A-List

Top tip: The Cilento region south of the Amalfi Coast. "Wild and wonderful - think sand and rocks and woods and local artichokes. Santa Maria di Castellabate on the sea gets a stylish summer crowd, and Paestum is one of the world's most perfect ancient Greek temples."

2002 Travel + Leisure A-List

Top tip: Ponza, an island that's a jealously guarded weekend escape for Romans. The next island over is a nature preserve. The waters are crystal-blue and you can find obsidian in the seabed.