My name is Natalia Rosiak, I am 38 years old and I come from the Poznań area, where I still live today, happily spending my free time between reading books and relaxing in nature with my Nordic walking poles, and in the autumn season, passionately picking mushrooms in the beautiful Polish forests. By education, I am a civil engineer. For more than five years, I divided my time between work and my travel blog about Italy. However, the growing popularity of the site and my desire to introduce changes forced me to make a decision. In May 2018, after twelve years of working in the design, construction, and modernization of the road and bridge network in the Wielkopolska region, I decided to end this chapter of my life and devote myself to my passion, Italy. Today, I know it was a very good decision. My husband, Artur, is my companion in some of my Italian adventures, and whenever possible, we travel together with our beloved terrier Gucia, whom we adopted eleven years ago.
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Blog about Italy – Italia by Natalia
The Italia by Natalia blog has existed since January 2013 and is the fulfillment of my dreams of being able to share my love for Italy every day with people who share my passion, which has been ongoing for twenty-one years. During this time, over dozens of trips lasting almost a year and a half in total, I have visited nearly all of Italy’s twenty regions, including Sicily fifteen times. Although I’ve seen many beautiful places, my greatest love has always been, is, and will forever be Sicily—its beauty, diversity, and wonderful people. This extraordinary island, alongside Campania, Tuscany, Trentino, Venice and Lake Garda, is also the most frequent topic of my blog posts, where I love to reveal places to my readers that are almost completely unknown in Poland and have not been previously described, such as the Cavagrande del Cassibile Canyon, Torre Salsa Nature Reserve, Marzamemi, or hiking up Monte Cofano, in Tuscany natural hot springs available for free or viewpoints in the Val d’Orcia valley, in Trentino, easy mountain trails accessible to entire families, and in Campania, the beautiful Cilento coast. Using my knowledge and frequent stays in Italy, I discover, describe, and promote places and services in Italy that I personally like. Sometimes, using the popularity of the blog, I also try to help by involving Readers in various actions.
Award-winning and Recognized Blog about Italy
My work was recognized by readers in February 2015 when Italia by Natalia was voted into the semifinals of Poland’s most prestigious blogger competition, “Blog of the Year 2014” (now called “Creator of the Year”), in two categories: “Travel” (6th place out of 230) and “Text of the Year” (5th place out of 520). This made it the first-ever blog about Italy and the only one to be distinguished in two categories. I am the author and co-author of guides on Italy and a speaker at the popular World Travel Show festival, which takes place as part of Poland’s largest tourism fair in Nadarzyn near Warsaw. I was listed among the 50 most influential travel bloggers in Poland in 2017 and among the top 20 travel bloggers in 2018, 2019, and 2020 based on the visibility of their blogs in Google.
Meeting with my readers at World Travel Show 2018
The Only Blog of Its Kind About Italy: What Can You Find Here?
- I travel and write about Italy based solely on my own experiences and observations. Except for occasional guest posts—where I give others a voice—you won’t find guides to places I haven’t been to or emotions I haven’t experienced. Honesty on this blog is the most important value, more important than my earnings. This is a fundamental aspect that sets Italia by Natalia apart from other blogs on similar topics.
- I inspire readers to slowly discover lesser-known Italy, far from museums and crowds.
- I promote Italian products in Poland, such as natural cosmetics from Tuscany, and the music of three very talented young people known as Il Volo, whom I had the pleasure of meeting personally.
- I photograph and film Italy from a bird’s-eye view, creating an interactive map of filmed places as part of my original project “Italia from a Drone“.
- I recommend accommodations, but only those I’ve used myself. I don’t collect other people’s recommendations because everyone has different preferences. What person X likes might deeply disappoint person Y. So if you notice that we have similar tastes, you can safely use my reliable list of verified accommodations in Italy.
My Offer to You
I hope you won’t take this the wrong way, but you should know that I have stopped giving email advice for a long time now. I had to stop when the number of messages requesting advice and help with travel planning exceeded 30 per day. At the time, I had a full-time job, and trying to advise individually led to a situation where new posts on the blog appeared about once every three weeks, and I was sleeping four hours a night. This blog about Italy is my passion, but it’s also my work, and since leaving my job, my main source of income. Therefore, if you haven’t found the information you need in my posts and are looking for advice, you have a few options:
- I warmly invite you to the blog’s Facebook group ITALY – Travel & Lifestyle, where together with 45k Italy enthusiasts, we share our experiences, offer advice, laugh, and joke. However, before posting, please review the rules available after membership approval.
- If you don’t use Facebook, ask a question in one of the blog comments. I will respond as time allows, and there’s a good chance that another reader will share their experience as well.
- I am the author of guides and advice books, which you can find in the blog’s online store.
- I am the author of a bestselling printed book, which is not a guidebook, but travel literature. “Italia – the Land of Contrasts and Diversity. Northern Italy” is available at Empik, among other places.
- If you run a business related indirectly or directly to Italy and would like to collaborate with me, and you understand that the benefits of this collaboration must be mutual, I detail my experience and provide current blog statistics in the collaboration section.
Thank you for stopping by and reading to the end. If you’d like to write to me, simply because you feel the need, or if you’ve used my advice or want to share something, I’d be delighted—here’s the contact page. I will respond when I have a free moment.
Buona giornata!
Natalia