The Vesuvius, with Naples’ industrial section in the foreground.
OUR GOAL IS TO PRODUCE REAL AND IMAGINARY JOURNEYS
CONNECTING POINTS CLOSE AND FAR
ENGAGING IN SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL
THRIVING THROUGH CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND PLURALITY
We at EduLeisure believe in experiencing Italy differently. We believe that travel is the best way to expand the human mind. Connecting across cultures, bringing people together, learning about local traditions and histories helps us realize that the world is a beautiful place, waiting to be experienced and loved.
At EduLeisure we organize events and produce textual and audio-visual content that aim to inform travelers and interested people about Italy and its cultures.
Donna Logan has spent her career helping people cross into another culture and feel genuinely at home there — first as an English teacher, then in the business world, and for many years with students abroad and consultant to travelers who plan to visit Italy.
Her early years teaching English gave her a lasting sensitivity to how people learn, adapt, and open up to a new language and a new way of seeing the world. That foundation carried into a five-year career in a significant international company, where she developed the organizational rigor and cross-cultural fluency that come from coordinating people, logistics, and expectations across two very different countries — skills that would later prove essential in an entirely different setting: leading students abroad.
As Director of the University of Rochester's study abroad programs in Arezzo, she has guided generations of students well beyond the surface of a semester in Tuscany, helping them build a genuine relationship with Italian history, art, and daily life. She was also the organizer and director of the University of Rochester's summer program in Procida, bringing students to the Neapolitan island's quieter rhythms — its harbors, its light, its unhurried pace — for an immersion few travelers ever get to experience.
What unites all of it is a talent for guiding people through Italy in the fullest sense: not just moving them from place to place, but giving them the context, the trust, and the attention needed to actually see the country they're standing in.
Federico Siniscalco is a documentary filmmaker and university researcher who has spent the last thirty years opening doors between cultures — first in the classroom, and now, increasingly, for travelers.
He taught Documentary Filmmaking, Digital Media Studies, and Intercultural and Business Communication at the University of Siena, where three decades of guiding students through American and Italian culture have given him a rare instinct for making complex history feel immediate and alive. That instinct has traveled with him: he was a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey, completed graduate studies in American Studies at George Washington University, and has been a frequent invited professor at the University of Rochester — years spent mediating between Italian and American ways of seeing, helping American audiences understand not just what happened in Italy, but why it still matters.
It's this same spirit that drives his passion for helping travelers experience Italy beyond the postcard. Federico believes that truly appreciating Italy means reading its layers — the Byzantine mosaics of Torcello, the Enlightenment ferment of Bourbon Naples, the quiet genius of Piero della Francesca's frescoes in Arezzo. He's as comfortable discussing the political drama of the Parthenopean Republic as he is pointing out why a particular chapel, castle, or coastal town holds a story worth pausing for.
Whether in a lecture hall in Siena, a seminar room in Rochester, or on the ground in Naples or Florence, Federico's goal is the same: to help people see Italy not as a checklist of sights, but as a living conversation between past and present.