Mannino Clarissa

Tour guide Florence & Milan
Tour leader
Historian

Meet the locals and tour differently: off the beaten track customized guided tours.

History and art with a personal and contemporary twist.

20/07/2024

🟡🟠 Golden hour

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06/07/2024

28/04/2024

Quest’anno un 25 Aprile per me ancora più speciale del solito.
Con e abbiamo deciso di tradurre tutto l’amore per questo giorno in due visite guidate gratuite a tema Resistenza.
Ecco la mia.

25 aprile 2024, ore 10.30-12.30: Walking Tour Milano Centro - con Clarissa che è guida turistica abilitata

Una visita guidata, da Duomo a piazza Castello, per ricordare uomini e donne che hanno fatto della Resistenza il loro stile di vita quotidiano. Una passeggiata che ci porterà nella Milano del ventennio fascista per raccontare la storie di chi non ha mai smesso di credere, anche nei momenti più bui, che una realtà diversa fosse possibile.

Grazie a chi ha partevipato

15/11/2023

End of season 2023. Mood on.
Season ended. Time for Rest?

One of the most frequent questions I get from my guests is what I do during the winter break.
Have you ever wondered what do tour leaders do during those three months off from December through March?

🗂️various bureaucracies: doctor visits, dentist, document renewals, etc., etc., etc.
🏖️only months to plan longer trips and vacations especially abroad
📚Study period: university, trainings, course, updates, meetings
🎄Throw in the fact that there are also Christmas and New Year's celebrations
👷‍♀️kick-off events organized by the various tour operators
🗓️all the planning for the next season (usually by December we already have an idea of the whole season ahead)
🎵TV series, movies, concerts and exhibitions you weren’t able to assist
❤️Family and friends time

Basically, these are months to catch up on all that part of life that was put on hold during the season. And trust that they fly by.
Tiring, stressful and sometimes difficult but still think it’s the best work in the world ❤️

#2023

30/10/2023

Are you a -Lake Como in November- kind of person?
Chose Y or N and find out.

1. I love a quieter, more intimate atmosphere.

2. I don't necessarily travel to meet people

3. The rain doesn't bother me.

4. If the weather turns bad, I am open to changes

5. I am a foodie

6. I am on a budget

7. I can give up some off-season activities

8. Book, heavy sweater, glass of wine and lake view

9. I am not interested in nightlife

10. I love to travel in winter

Will it be a November at the lake for you too?

19/10/2023

Winter mode on. Just one last tour ‘til the end of this working season.
Love my job but ready for some rest.

16/10/2023

Choosing to travel in the fall is always risky but, when everything plays in our favor, then it is pure magic. Best weather + no crowds = simply perfect

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10/10/2023

Postcards

05/09/2023

Italian summer

22/01/2023

Norway has always been a secret dream, one of those trips that
you feel yours even before embarking on it but that you already know will become "the trip”.
The decision to go there in the winter helped with the budget but above all it gave us the opportunity to explore almost undisturbed many of the places that become very crowded in the summer. I don't think I've ever suffered so much from the cold but definitely worth it.
January means and approx 5H of light and sunset in between 1.00-2.30 pm and dinner around 3.30-4.30 pm
Another choice was to move only with public transport.By traveling via bus, train, funicular, catamaran and internal flights, we covered more than 3000 km going from to

Don’t miss:

and both

in and the
absolutely to be tried the most local dish

funicular that takes on the top of the world in and
reindeer hot dog at

the most beautiful sea voyage ever

in the border with Finland and Russia and WW2 bunker visit

03/03/2022

Just returned after two weeks of travel, in training on a new tour of northern Italy,

14 days moving through 3 regions, 11 provinces and 4 Unesco World Heritage sites!
Lombardy, Trentino Alto Adige and Veneto are a bridge between Italy and Europe and the alps a unique blend of languages, cultures, traditions, identities and of course...great food

This journey, suspended in time between lakes and mountains, has given me back a part of myself, that part that in recent years I had had to close in a drawer waiting for better times.

What could be better than getting back to work seriously after two years of uncertainty and disruption?
To start working again in one of the most beautiful areas of northern Italy with a team of amazing colleagues.

Thank you
club

And now, let's rock!

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14/02/2022

The originally growing wild in all areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, is one of the oldest known cultivated trees in the world.

Traditionally it is a symbol of peace and friendship, this association began in ancient Greece, as early as the fifth century.

has it that proposed a contest between and for the control of Athens. Poseidon smashed his three-pronged trident upon the hard rock of the Acropolis, which unleashed a spring. Whilst Athena, produced an Olive tree, with its silvery-green leaves and abundance of rich fruits, gift chosen by the Athenians.

In Gallura, northern area of in the municipality of Luras, olive trees have literally lived for thousands of years.

Among the oldest in the world, the “Great Patriarch” is considered the oldest Millenary Olive tree in Europe.

Declared in 1991 Natural Monument and included among the 20 secular trees.

S’Ozzastru is the typical name given by the inhabitants of Luras to the wild olive Today it measures 14 meters in height, 18 meters of circumference of the trunk and the covers 600 square meters of surface.

The in my video is “only” 2000 years old, second oldest olive tree in Luras, and measures 8 meters high.

I spent two wonderful days in Sardinia looking for and I found more than I thought I would have.

Have you ever considered traveling to Sardinia?

30/01/2022

is better?

Women have been taking care of their since the earliest times, even with methods that may appear bizarre today, but which were the only ones available or the most effective in their day.

Through there have been several manuals of female dating back to the 1600s, all generous with tips and recipes to be more beautiful and to improve the appearance of the hair, which even then were dyed or lightened.

To become or to give their hair warm golden reflections, the ladies of the time frequently exposed themselves to the sun with their hair tied up and covered with a mixture of urine and vinegar. Their favorite to sit and wait for the hair to be ready were the , wooden terraces built over the Venetian palaces and still visible in the city nowadays.

The result, thanks above all to the natural reaction of ammonia contained in the p*e, were fashionable shades that ranged, depending on the starting color, from golden yellow to the famous

11/01/2022

Quanto vale una fotografia?
Come si valuta il costo delle fotografie d’autore?
Quanto saresti dispost* a pagare per immortalare un attimo, un’emozione, un istante preciso?

Le fotografie d'autore sono tali quando possiedono il requisito della creatività, ovvero quando rappresentano il risultato della creazione intellettuale dell'autore. Ciò significa che il fotografo non deve essersi limitato ad una mera rappresentazione della realtà.

Così ci ha “visti”

05/01/2022

Did it really happen?
Yes, it really did ( just a reminder for myself ).

A couple of years ago I met the ( event that for a girl who grew up in the is a dream of a lifetime ).

An exceptional guided tour for an exceptional person

If I had to use three words to describe him they would surely be:

1. Kind
2. Curious
3. ( VERY ) Tall

What would you like to know more about those days?

01/12/2021

The Florentine Academy was born in 1462 as a circle of humanists who used to gather around Marsilio Ficino by the will of the to study and translate some of Plato's works. The gave life to an unprecedented intertwining between and

Michelangelo’s sculpture is pervaded by Neoplatonic concepts:

👉 The idea of the eternal search for perfection through intelligence, which in fact translates into a continuous suffering of man struggling to get closer to God. Only through death the man will be able to free his spirit and get closer to God. This principle of struggle for the of the spirit is visible in many works by ,especially those left unfinished, in which the sense of oppression of man imprisoned in the struggling matter is evident to reach a goal that knows to be unattainable.

👉 For Michelangelo, the hand of the who performs the work is a simple instrument that mechanically executes the will of the intellect, which cannot have any that does not already exist inside the . The subject is "imprisoned" and is hidden in the core of the matter.

👉 The artist's task is therefore to "remove" (and not as usual "put") the material, so as to reveal the essence, the idea hidden inside.The marble is therefore the raw substance from which Michelangelo freed the Idea hidden inside. This also recalls the need of the human soul to "detach itself" from a material fictitious reality and rise to a higher spiritual state, closer to the truth.