'Art Safari' tours launched for Italy

(ANSA) - Rome, November 26 - Culture lovers are being offered an Art Safari across Italy that will feature the Forum, the Villa Borghese gardens and tourist-loved sites in Florence, Milan and Naples rather than lions and hippos, organisers said Friday.
    The project is the result of an idea by the Ara Macao association and includes a series of books, tours guided by art experts and a free app with information on the website www.safaridarte.it "Art Safari was born out of a need to stimulate the wish for exploration of the past and the conviction that culture is an enrichment for everyone," said the association's president, Raffaella Tiribocchi.
    On offer are 10 Play&Learn travel book titles in A5 format in Italian and English for tours in Rome, Florence and Milan including unconventional itineraries for young and old, tourists and citizens.
    Each game tour can be completed in some two hours walking around the city in search of 12 clues that are monuments and works of art, guided by a map with the relevant coordinates.
    The book includes historical and artistic texts relative to the artworks and a final quiz.
    Also offered is a Play&Learn Tour with an Activity Leader who is an art history expert speaking different languages who guides a sort of treasure hunt while providing information and curiosities.
    The Art Safari app is in English and Italian with free and paying routes in Lazio, Tuscany, Calabria and Campania.