On the 28th November we celebrate the Giving Tuesday. It was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. It’s a simple idea: whether it’s making someone smile, helping a neighbor or stranger out, showing up for an issue or people we care about, or giving some of what we have to those who need our help, every act of generosity counts and everyone has something to contribute toward building the better world we all want to live in.
GivingTuesday activities have been tracked in every country and territory in the world and more than 90 of these countries are home to official national GivingTuesday movements of their own!
From #GivingTuesdayItaly to #UnDiaParaDar to #MardiJeDonne to #ЩедрыйВторник and more, leaders within these countries are building GivingTuesday movements to inspire greater giving and to cultivate a culture of generosity within their nation.
This year, we have decided to join the celebration. Gift is the core element of our daily activity: it’s what we do and what we receive back. Many cities will be helding free tours to honor the day. Join us!
And remeber: In a gift economy, the more you give, the richer you are.
Once in you lifetime, have you certainty heard about Modena, being that for the Balsamic Vinegar or the fancy cars like Maserati or Ferrari. Then, if you are visiting Northern Italy, a stop by the city is worth it.
Modena is easily reachable by train or car (no, we don’t have the airport). It’s well connected to the main Italian northern cities like Milano, Bologna, Parma and Verona. We would suggest you to avoid car and opt for a more green solution like public transport: despite delays, Italian trains are still a cheap and comfortable solution (take Regionale or Regionale Veloce, schedule on trenitalia.com). The train station is located at the external border of the Old Town. You can reach almost everything in 20/30 minutes walking.
Modena’s foundation dates back in pre-roman era, but it was during the Roman time that started to develop. Like most of the Italian cities, Modena enjoyed a quite long period of independence as city-state before turning into a semi-independent Duchy. It was under the Duke that the city knew its gold age.
The core of the city old town is Piazza Grande, with its UNESCO World Heritage Site: Duomo and Ghirlandina. The Duomo is almost one thousand year old (the first stone was placed in 1099) and represents one of the best and well-maintained example of Romanico style in the world. The tower is the highest point of the city and its symbol. The name’s origin has many legends: the most curious one comes from Spain. After the Jews were expelled from Catholic Spain, they scattered around Europe. In Modena, they settled in the area of Piazza Mazzini – which would then become the infamous Ghetto – where a XIX century Synagogue still dominates the square. Looking at that Tower, it reminded them of Sevilla Bell Tower, the Giralda. Being the Modena’s one shorter, they added the Italian diminutive -ina: Girarldina, pronunced Ghiraldina. It became Ghirlandina.
If you are still reading, it means it’s almost lunch time. Let’s go to Mercato Albinelli. There you will find all the traditional products and dishes of our land: Tortellini, Prosciutto, Wine and a good selection of food shops to sit and enjoy your meal!
If instead you are looking to dive deep in the food world with someone wise, we have something for you: EAT Modena is a local street food experience made for those like you, food lovers. Discover more on EAT Modena – Street Food Tour
You still have time for some architectural dessert in the afternoon, such Palazzo Ducale, the house of the Duke of Modena – nowadays the Military Academy – in Piazza Roma, the Public Garden – once the private garden of the Duke, Chiostri di San Pietro, and Palazzo dei Musei.
If you think you’ll need a guide to better move and discover around, just email or call us. We named it WALK, but you can call it your private tour of the city: an expert tour guide will escort you to all the wonders and beyond! Write Walk Modena – Private Tourand start your journey!
Have you ever tried to explain your business to whom has no idea about it? We got three simple words to spell: Free Walking Tour.
What the f**k is Free Walking Tour?
If you have ever visited a city, you might have met young groups of people following somebody touring them around. In all likelihood, that could be a Free Walking Tour.
Free Walking Tour is the mean to city free guided tour, an introductive walk through the city with an expert tour guide. The adjective Free here stands for Freedom: you are free to join, free to leave if you don’t like it, free to tip the guide if you like the experience.
We have not reinvented the wheel, Free Walking Tour has existed ever since. The first traces date back in 2004 around Berlin, in Germany. Then, it spreads throughout the world to finally arrive in Italy.
If Italians have tried it in Europe, they don’t know something similar existed in Italy too. Indeed, since 2017, an independent network of Italian Free Walking Tours connects different free tours experiences throughout the peninsula. Now that you know it, use it!
Many experienced travellers, unlike Italians, know the format, which they likely join every time they find one. Find it is pretty easy, if you know where to look for it.
You can digit the magic words Free Walking Tour followed by the city you are looking for and see the results. You might find all outcomes but only a real one: Free Walking Tour Italia (www.freewalkingtouritalia.com)
If you are a computer illiterate, while strolling around the city, look for the Free Walking Tour flag – they usually stands in visible and open spaces. You cannot get it wrong!
Finally, ask your host, hopefully he is learned!
There are thousand of reasons why you should choose a Free Walking Tour, to meet new people for example, or to learn something new about the city you are visiting. You don’t have to worry about money: if you have little or are a generous donor, it doesn’t matter to us, you can pay what you want.
Italy is famous for its food, its monuments, its charming and funny people… and its incredibly awesome free tour guides. Do you want to meet them? Just show up and join a free walking tour. Most of the italian touristic destinations have their own, and in many cases you will find it difficult to choose the good one.
In cities as Rome or Florence, you might encounter up to 8 differents free tours. Which is the real one? Watch out, the web can easily fool you: it full of platforms offering you a real, genuine and local experience.
Here you find few tips to not be fooled around:
Avoid international platform, go local
Avoid advertised tours: don’t make Google richer than what eventually is
Beware of imitations: many free tours are run by guides who are actually not guides, rely on professionists
Rely on Free Walking Tour Italia: it’s the first independent italian free tour network
Our guides are local, licensed and trustworthy
Free Walking Tour Bologna: they are the best free tour guides in town: young, passionate, and funny. Since 2017 they offer daily tours and lots of fun. The best way to discover the city
Free Tour Turin:Angelo and Fracesca are two young travellers who share a passion: meeting people coming from all over the world and sharing with them the beauty of their city as locals.
Free Walking Tour Bari: Anna, Giuseppe e Fabrizio are the guides whom everyone dreams of. Since 2015, they design and run city tours to make you live the city as a local. They narrate Bari through a authentic and involving storytelling.
Free Walking Tour Modena: here’s where everything started. If you pass by, remeber to meet Loredana and Francesca. They work as free tour guides since the beginning. They are the Free Walking Tour. An experience worth it!
Free Walking Tour Verona:Serena and Andrea are two smiling and funny guides, who will impress you with their way to introduce you the city of Verona. You will beg for another tour by the end!
Free Walk in Venice: Lucia is an official and free lancer tour guide in Venice, great lover of the city and lucky enough to do the best job in the most beautiful city of the world.
Florence Free Tour Tale: they are a group of licensed tour guides of Florence, who decided to show the city to travelers in a completely new way! Their tours are based on funny stories and anecdotes to make you learn and enjoy every minute with us.
Free Tour Catania:they are two long-time friends passionate about the culture, the arts and the nature of their land and willing to lead you through the hidden corners of this monumental baroque city, that’s why they decided to establish the free walking tour in Catania.
Free Walking Tour Palermo: it springs from the idea of three friends keen on Sicilian culture, traditions and history. Their bet is to promote, through unconventional means, an international eco-tourism model. They love Palermo, They travelled a lot and came back to proved a different depiction of Zyz, Balarm, Panormus, Palermo and Sicily
