Travel By Mitra

17/02/2026

From Lunar New Year and the Lantern Festival to Ramadan and Lent,
this season carries both celebration and reflection.
Wishing you peace and meaning in whatever you are observing.

13/02/2026

Free tip of the day;

Drink the cappuccino. At all times. None of us care.
We may oppose to it being drunk together with the pasta carbonara and your pizza, but who cares if you want coffee with milk at 5 pm? Just order it. Most of us do as well 🥰

12/02/2026

🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ PSA – FEBRUARY 12, 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️🚨

Due to heavy rainfall, the following areas of the Colosseum will be closed to the public:

• Underground levels
• Stern entrance

Visitors may still access the monument via the standard route (ground level – First Tier, Second Tier).

🎟️ Holders of a Full Experience ticket will receive a refund for the difference between the basic ticket and the Full Experience ticket.

👣 Visitors with a guided tour of the underground and arena may continue visiting the monument but will receive a refund for the guided portion only.

💳 Visitors who choose not to enter the monument may request a full refund.

For further information, please email:
[email protected]

03/02/2026

This is not about “just 2 euros.”
The real issue is the precedent: turning an open public space into a ticketed area. The Trevi Fountain is not a museum. It is part of the city itself. Once you ticket a piazza, you open the door to ticketing any iconic urban space.

This measure does not solve overcrowding. It shifts congestion, creates queues where none existed before, and with an open ticket system it does not truly control numbers. It simply introduces a toll.

Yes, cities need funding, but transparency matters. Residents already had access to cultural sites, yet they are the ones who lose access to the square. And wherever tickets exist, resale, “skip-the-line” schemes, and speculation inevitably follow.

Comparisons with other countries are misleading: elsewhere you pay to enter clearly enclosed sites. You do not pay to stand in a public square. The Trevi Fountain is a Baroque urban work made of piazza, perspective, and fountain together. Separating it destroys its meaning.

This is not heritage protection. It is the commodification of the city. Tourism needs governance, not the conversion of living urban space into a paid backdrop.

Isabella Ruggiero, presidente AGTA: "Non è il prezzo il problema, ma la chiusura di uno spazio pubblico in funzione dei turisti"

11/01/2026

If you are in Rome January 12 & 13, heads up for a general strike of everything and everywhere;

Lunedì 12 e martedì 13 gennaio possibili disagi nell'erogazione dei servizi.

09/01/2026

As a travel advisor, one of my best selling destinations that I arrange travel for my clients to is Egypt.

Is it on your list for 2026?

31/12/2025

Last tour of the year ♥️✨🥂
Happy to spend it out in the fresh air of the Roman forum!

Looking forward to touring with you all in 2026! 🫶🏼💫

30/12/2025

🥂✨ As this year closes, I just want to say thank you. 🫶🏼

Thank you to everyone who trusted me with their travels this year – and to those already booking for 2026 and even planning 2027. That kind of trust is never taken lightly.

For those who have asked over the years what it is I actually do (and no, it’s not “just walking around Rome making videos”):

♥️I am a licensed, board-certified tour guide authorized to guide in Rome, the Vatican, and across Italy. I don’t follow scripts and I don’t rush people through monuments. I interpret history, archaeology, art, and place – and I adapt every experience to the people in front of me.

✨Alongside that, I work as a travel advisor, designing complete journeys: from private guides and special access, to hotels, logistics, pacing, and experiences that actually make sense together. Some trips last a few hours, others several weeks. All are built carefully, not copied and pasted.

🫶🏼Travel should feel intelligent, human, and memorable – not exhausting.

Thank you for another year of conversations, curiosity, and confidence in my work.
Here’s to meaningful journeys ahead.

Happy New Year ✨

29/12/2025

Hidden just behind the chaos of Via del Corso, Via Margutta has been Rome’s artist street since the 1600s.
Painters, sculptors, film legends, quiet courtyards, and studios that still smell like turpentine and ideas.

How to get here:
• Metro: Line A, Spagna, then a 5-minute walk
• Bus: Any stop along Via del Corso
• Taxi: Ask for “Via Margutta, near Piazza di Spagna”

Come early morning or late afternoon, when the light hits the walls just right and Rome finally exhales.

If you want to explore Rome beyond the obvious, you know where to find me.

29/12/2025

I’m booking clients for northern adventures 2026- who else is wanting to go?

Näin mukava oli joulun aloitus Äkäslompolon Kuertunturissa. Onnellinen hän joka hyviä muistoja tallentaa. -Mauri-

29/12/2025

♥️🫶🏼

Pope Leo XIV led his first Christmas Day Mass and hit out at the conditions facing Palestinians in Gaza