GRADARA - Traveling is an original way to celebrate Valentine's Day: you get out of everyday life, make new experiences and share romantic moments with your partner in unusual places.
We suggest 5 proposals in Italy to spend the day of lovers or the long weekend of Valentine's Day away from home.
In the Marche Gradara and its fortress, a jewel of fortified architecture, host "Gradara d'Amare", an event that allows you to spend the feast of St. Valentine in one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, immortalized by Dante Alighieri in the 5th song of Hell.
From 12 to 14 February the program of the event in the castle, which was the background to the love affairs of Paolo and Francesca, is full of surprises and romantic suggestions.
In the village you can stroll along the streets lit by scented candles and decorated with red hearts;
you leave love phrases in the dedication well and your signature in the register of lovers.
Four times a day - at 11, at 14.30, at 16 and at 18 - there are guided tours and animated itineraries in the footsteps of Paolo and Francesca,
the unfortunate lovers sung by Dante.
In the municipal theater you participate in recited readings, accompanied by live music, and on the evening of the 14th at the Rocca you can toast in a 1920s-style atmosphere.
In all the restaurants in Gradara, dinner is strictly by candlelight.
Info: gradara.org
Relax with your partner in a fragrant hot bath, indulge in a couple's massage and taste a chocolate mousse with strawberries in rose oil vapors: this is the recipe for wellness for couples proposed for Valentine's Day by MySpa in Terme Merano, elegant hotel structure in the heart of the South Tyrolean city overlooking the Alps. The "Special Night" also offers swimming pools and saunas open until midnight with plays of lights, special effects, projections and aromatic vapors;
the cost for 5 hours starts from 19 euros.
Those who want to enrich the evening with an unforgettable experience, can book a Pool Suite for two, full of every comfort, at a cost of 169 euros.
The Spa also offers the "Special for two" offer, a hydromassage bath with aromatic extracts for two of 20 minutes,
a 50-minute hot lava stone massage and two-hour admission to the Spa.
The cost is 198 euros.
Another proposal is the "Imperial Relax for Two": a 20-minute whey couple bath in the imperial tub, a 50-minute relaxing couple's massage with aromatic oils of your choice and entrance to the Spa for two hours. .
This package costs 188 euros.
Those who love snow sports can take advantage of the Merano 2000 ski area with 40 kilometers of slopes for skiing, cross-country skiing and sledding, a snow park and the new outdoor kids camp for beginners and children.
Info: termemerano.it
a 20-minute whey couple bath in the imperial tub, a 50-minute relaxing couple's massage with aromatic oils of your choice and entrance to the Spa for two hours.
This package costs 188 euros.
Those who love snow sports can take advantage of the Merano 2000 ski area with 40 kilometers of slopes for skiing, cross-country skiing and sledding, a snow park and the new outdoor kids camp for beginners and children.
Info: termemerano.it
a 20-minute whey couple bath in the imperial tub, a 50-minute relaxing couple's massage with aromatic oils of your choice and entrance to the Spa for two hours.
This package costs 188 euros.
Those who love snow sports can take advantage of the Merano 2000 ski area with 40 kilometers of slopes for skiing, cross-country skiing and sledding, a snow park and the new outdoor kids camp for beginners and children.
Info: termemerano.it
In the Trentino Dolomites Paganella area there is the opportunity to spend a weekend in the snow by participating in Eurochocolate, a sweet and romantic event scheduled from 11 to 14 February.
It is a festival dedicated to chocolate and love, between live cooking shows of great names in pastry and delicious recipes.
Among the many novelties of this edition stands out the "Red Pass", a heart-shaped postcard with a QR code which, once scanned, activates a game to share one's passions through social media and collect greedy heart-shaped chocolates.
To celebrate the day of lovers in the name of love and chocolate, Dolomiti Paganella has identified four ideas for a stay: those looking for romantic emotions and gestures can rely on "widespread circuits"
with discounts, packages and chocolate-themed offers in restaurants, wine bars, refuges, hotels, spas and shops in the area.
You can have dinners in the shelters, relaxing stays in the spa, walks in the moonlight and go up with the snowcat at sunset.
The second offer is for couples looking for total relaxation, without leaving their room or leaving the hotel spa: for them there is the "choco love express", a delivery service for guests in the Trentino area.
For the more nostalgic couples there are maxi frames where you can take your own selfies to remember your holiday in the snow;
in the workstation set up for photos are delivered chocolates that can be personalized with the name or photo of the partner.
For the sweet tooth there are guided tastings on different types of chocolate,
proposed by the official chocolatier of Eurochocolate.
Info: visitdolomitipaganella.it
In Venice, one of the most romantic cities in the world, it is possible to stay in a seventeenth-century villa with a refined noble atmosphere.
The dwelling furnished with fine fabrics and materials is the Romantik Hotel Villa Margherita in Mira, immersed in a centuries-old park a few kilometers from the city of love.
In the past it has hosted illustrious characters of literature and the aristocracy, including the adventurer Casanova.
For Valentine's Day the hotel offers a bottle of prosecco and a bowl of strawberries, a detailed map of Venice to explore the lagoon city and two masks of high local craftsmanship to relive the Venetian splendor.
Candlelit dinner is served at the Margherita restaurant, while a rich breakfast is offered in the Sala dei Putti.
The price starts from 90 euros per person for 1 night and 65 to extend the stay.
Info: romantikhotels.com
Cycling among the trulli and secular olive trees of Val d'Itria, in Puglia, is the proposal in Locorotondo of the Leonardo Trulli Resort, which organizes an original experience signed by Yuniqly from 12 to 14 February.
You cycle or run in the midst of nature, taste gourmet food and relax in the spa.
The "Training & Love" offer includes 2 nights at the Resort with breakfast, 2 dinners at the ArteCibo restaurant of chef Francesco Cataldi, awarded by Gambero Rosso as an emerging chef, free access to the solarium and heated salt water swimming pool and the program "training" with personalized cycling or running training, with the assistance of a Yuniqly sport leader.
The cost is 370 euros per person;
info: yuniqly.it
