For the 4th year in a row, Concierge in Umbria has been named to Condé Nast Traveler magazine’s list of Top Travel Specialists. Consumer News Editor Wendy Perrin manages the selection process and looks for “people who offer the best combination of specialized knowledge (based on firsthand travel experience), local connections, user-friendliness, and value for your dollar.”
We are very excited to be a part of such an elite group of travel professionals.
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Our listing from the August 2009 issue of Condé Nast Traveler:
Maria Gabriella Landers and Brian Dore, Concierge in Umbria
Opera singers who live half the year in Umbria, Landers and Dore maintain close relationships with local residents—restaurateurs, vintners, shop owners, artists, archaeologists—that are strengthened not just by the couple’s fluency in the language but also by Landers’s background in art history and Dore’s as a cook in top Manhattan restaurants. Their itineraries can incorporate Italy’s best organic farms and vineyards, musical events, or medieval-style festivals: They suggest that rather than braving the crush of spectators at the Palio in Siena, for instance, you see the less tourist-filled 900-year-old race in Gubbio (212-769-4767; info@conciergeinumbria.net; conciergeinumbria.net; $800*).
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