Press Articles
Bellini Travel features in the following articles:
Departures May/June 2012
The Top Ten Villas in Tuscany
Bellini Travel features Castello Sonnino and Villa Laura.
Vanity Fair On Travel
April 2012
Australian Gourmet Traveller
The Italian Issue April 2012
A Perfect Ten
It was art that lured Emily FitzRoy to Italy. As a young lady she travelled to Venice to study art history, and since then she hasn’t been able to shake Italy out of her system. The Londoner, whose grandmother was Neapolitan, founded travel company Bellini Travel 15 years ago to share her “undiluted passion” for Italy. In this issue she writes about her top ten villas.
Tatler Travel Guide 2012
101 Best Hotels in the World – Bellini Travel is nominated with the Hotel Cipriani and Borgo Santo Pietro.
Tatler, December 2011
Where to go... for a breakaway Christmas
Most of Rome happens behind closed doors. But come at Christmas and it may be warm enough to eat outside, or cold enough for hats and mittens. This villa is where you get all the benefits of a Roman holiday staying with one of the finest families in the city. Ring the door bell and you’re pulled into an aristo townhouse with a dark-wood-panelled library, vast drawing rooms – and, in the basement, a spa. Book through Bellini Travel.
Times LUXX, November 2011
Make It A New Year To Remember
Palazzo Loredan is one of the grandest privately owned palaces on the Grand Canal... behave like a member of the Renaissance aristocracy, enjoy trompe l’oeil walls and Murano chandeliers along with some seriously slick butler service.
How to spend it, July 2011
The Lone Arrangers
High-end operators whose bespoke services are transforming the world of solo travel
Emily FitzRoy is the owner of Bellini and the UK’s pre-eminent Italy specialist. That FitzRoy has the general managers of the country’s top hotels on speed dial is a given; her real USP is her access to some of its most patrician citizens – those who’ll not just make their private country estate or city palazzo accessible for a dinner, but be present to host her clients.
Vanity Fair on Travel, April 2011
Florence gets edgy - Sophy Roberts
The quality now exists, with city insiders like Emily FitzRoy (FitzRoy's London-based company Bellini Travel is the best Florence specialist) opening up address books stuffed full of contacts. Let out a sigh of relief and hand over your entire trip to Bellini Travel.
The Times, February 2011
If you're looking for the inside track - Mark Hodson
If you want special travel experience, see a specialist. Many of these companies are owned and managed by true enthusiasts, who can take you beyond the brochure clichés to an authentic and unspoilt part of the world. Emily FitzRoy the founder, provides insider tours of Italy, getting under the sking of the country and offering unique experiences. Bellini can achieve what might be impossible and works with only 70 clients a year.
Tatler February 2011
Venice the Hot Ticket - Charlotte Eager
More importantly there are still the hidden gems, to book contact Emily FitzRoy at Bellini Travel.
Private Banking Magazine, January 2011
Venice Beneath The Surface - Jane Kelly
Our writer dips her toe into the water of this ancient seat of power, finance and culture, in hope of finding the real Venice – and to stay in a palazzo or two.
House and Garden, November 2010
Winter Escapes – a London based travel expert with a love of Venice's wintry charms Emily FitzRoy, a self-termed 'Italophile', reveals the city's quieter nature.
Departures, November 2010
The Venice Issue
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The Daily Telegraph Ultratravel Magazine,
Summer 2010
Victoria’s Secrets: Victoria defines the best and worst of tour guides. Read more
Financial Times Life and Arts, 3 March 2010
Canals, Canalettos, carnival… - Is it still possible to have an original, cliché –free travel experience in Venice?
Read more
The Financial Times,
February 2010
Roman Splendour. Read more
Celebrate: The Art of the Special Occasion, Autumn 2009
By Lucia van der Post. Read more
The Sunday Times (Travel supplement), August 2009
Don’t be a Tourist Read more
Corriere della Sera Style Magazine, May 2009
Summer at home Read more
Vanity Fair Travel Edition, April 2009
The 2009 Best List Read more
The Complete Guide to Palatial Italy Read more
Sunday Telegraph,February 2009Insider Guide Read more
Time Out Travel Guide Rome, 2009
By Anne Hanley Read more
Condé Nast Tatler Travel Guide, January 2009
New Direction, Tuscany Read more
The Times (Luxx magazine),November 2008
Access All Areas Read more
Vanity Fair Travel,
April 2008
Secret Agents Read more
The Sunday Times Travel, 24th February 2008
Rustic Sicilian, Italy Read more
Telegraph Magazine – The Travel Issue, 9th February 2008
Pizza Excess Read more
Financial Times Life And Arts, August 2007
Septimus would be proud Read more
Daily Telegraph, 29 June 2007
Bespoke traveller: Truffle treasures Read more
FT How To Spend It, June 2007
Palazzo Confidential Read more
Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2007
Why not throw your own billionaire bash? Read more
Vanity Fair, April 2007
Viva Siena Senza Piscina Read more
The Times, 27 January 2007
Marble, gilt… it’s the simple things Read more
Wallpaper, January 2007
Super Agents Read more
The Times, 18 December 2006
What do you give someone who has it all? Read more
The Times, 16 September 2006
50 people to know in travel Read more
Financial Times, 12 August 2006
Get away from it all - and from everybody Read more
Vanity Fair Travel,
April 2006
Our man in... Read more
Daily Telegraph,
Ultra Travel Magazine,
Spring 2006
What price a true expert? Read more
Guardian, 4 March 2006
Taking the Grand Tour Read more
Independent, 25 February 2006
Five best Venetian rentals Read more
Evening Standard Escapade,
Winter 2005
My Venice - and beyond Read more
The Insider - Emily FitzRoy
Read more
Financial Times, 12/13 November 2005
Travel Super-agent Read more
Daily Mail, 29 October 2005
A luxury weekend in Venice Read more
Conde Nast Traveller, September 2005
Venice made simple Read more
Sunday Times, 11 September 2005
Going topless, Tuscany Read more
Daily Mail, 9 July 2005
Where to pop the question Read more
The Week, 13 November 2004
This week's dream Read more
Evening Standard, 5 November 2004
Digging for Italy's white gold Read more
Style, May 2004
The alternative wedding list
A weekend for two in Venice from £750 Read more
Tatler, May 2004
Why weren't we invited?
Carnival time: Hotel Cipriani, Venice. The sublime long weekend Read more
Financial Times, 10/11 April 2004
The short break lifts off Read more
Sunday Times, 28 March 2004
Mediterranean classics: it's the clash of the
holiday titans Read more
The Week, 21 February 2004
Last-minute offers from top travel companies Read more
Financial Times, 3/4 January 2004 Travel Destinations 2004
Small trend: Bespoke Travel
More and more people are easing the pain of passing milestone
birthdays by inviting a few close friends to a fantastic
weekend... Read more
Tatler, January 2004
Travel guide 2004: 101 best hotels: sexy
JK Place in Florence, which can be booked through Bellini Travel,
is recommended in the Travel Guide Read more
Sunday Times, 28 December 2003
Weekend world — 52 quick getaways for 2004
Three holidays by Bellini Travel and Fine Art Travel
are suggested in this list of things to do in 2004 Read more
Daily Mail, 13 December 2003
All I want is a fabulous room somewhere
What makes a truly great hotel? And how much wil is cost
you to stay there? Victoria Mather, editor af the Tatler
Travel Guide 2004, selects the best Read more
Sunday Times, 16 November 2003
Big spenders: how they travel in style
A birthday in Rome arranged by Fine Art Travel Read more
Sunday Times, 16 November 2003
Big spenders: how they travel in style
A honeymoon in Italy arranged by Bellini Travel Read more
The Times, 18 October 2003
Luxury round the world
In search of the ‘perfect moment’ Read more
Evening Standard, 9 October 2003
With Pomp and ceremony
Read more
Tatler, September 2003
The goods Read more
PrivatAir, Issue 9
Grand tours Read more
Harpers and Queen, June 2003
Travel Portals
Log on and take off Read more
The Week, 24 May 2003
When in Rome Read more
Observer, 27 April 2003
Veni (for 3 days), Vidi (the lot), Vici (child boredom)
Tim Moore's family weekend in Rome goes surprisingly
smoothly thanks to an inspired tour guide and liberal helpings Read more
Food and Travel, April 2003
Feeding Firenze Read more
Tatler Travel Guide 2003
Best Experts
Emily FitzRoy: Best Guide to Italy
Victoria Mather
Emily is bilingual, enchanting and splendidly effective, and it is always fun to be with her...Read more
Evening Standard, 15 July 2002
Rome is cool for kids
Sandra Lane Read more
