History, art and culture are the reasons I get up in the morning and my enthusiasm has never been so intense as during the last 8 years I have been living here in Rome.

My career as a tour guide started more than 2 decades ago in Berlin where I lead free tours through the recently united city for 7 years.For the most part topics covered the events of WWII and the cold war.

I moved to Prague where I lived for another 7 years and delved into the history of the Holy Roman Empire as well as the Hussite wars and lastly Communist rule.But even without learning about the historical record of the city of 100 spires, the breathtaking beauty and mood of its architecture and art made my time there unforgettable.

As an Italian American I had always wanted to live in the "motherland" which brought me to the birthplace of the Renaissance.Florence was compact like Prague but so much denser in art and architecture.I loved the city, but I jumped at the opportunity when I got the chance to move to Rome and never looked back.

Through all these experiences I have been able to hone my skills to develop the best tours possible.Memorizing the dates and names is important but making sense of it all and understanding how to present it to an audience of vastly different backgrounds is much more so.As a guide it’s tempting to want to communicate all the details and interesting tidbits of information while failing to recognize the limits of the average attention span (often cut shorter from jet lag).

Creating a narrative that connects the dots and shows how one event can be the result of another has been the core of each and every tour I compose.Lastly my desire to remain hungry for more, keeps my presentations from becoming stale.I often say that I appreciate the questions I cannot answer more than the ones that I can.The insights of a curious guest can lead to research that will reveal an aspect that I would have never considered on my own.