Everyone thinks they’ve seen Italy,
Until they see the South

Photography and slow travel expert in Southern Italy

We know a place

Youlivo is a travel design studio for Southern Italy. Our private journeys and photo tours through Sicily, Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria are built around how you want to travel, by people who know these places from the inside.

The photographer's eye

Photo Journeys

We design private photo tours for independent photographers, photo clubs and tour operators, led in the field by a professional photographer. Every location is chosen for its season and its light, and every day is planned around what you want to shoot.

Stromboli erupting

A STORY OF YOUR OWN

Tailor Made Holidays

We tailor private journeys for independent travellers, couples, families and friends, designed from scratch rather than picked from a catalogue. We start by listening to how you want to travel and build every day around it, so no two journeys we design are ever the same.

Woman tourist in Palermo

Behind the screen

YOULIVO HERE

In English, it echoes "you live", the present tense of travel.

In Italian, it echoes "ulivo", the olive tree, an enduring symbol of the land we call home: the Mediterranean.

We're travel designers, photographers and Italians, and stubborn about the South. We only send you to places we keep going back to ourselves.

Woman embracing a sunset in Lipari island

By Region

A Regionally Diverse South

Ideas to start from

Journeys and photo tours to start from

Why Youlivo?

  1. Local Knowledge

  2. Beyond the Usual

  3. Tailored to you

  4. Travel at Your Pace

In their words

Every day felt made for us. We came home slower, and somehow lighter.

Anna & Thomas

Tell us how you like to travel

We'll shape a journey through Southern Italy around it

Southern Italy, slowly

Tell us how you want to feel.

We build one journey at a time, around the light, the table and the people you will meet.