Oh my goodness! I WANT TO WIN THIS!!!!! If only I could write….

DEi iTALY Divine Tours begin their new VOLTURI Audio Tour with the release of Eclipse on June 30, 2010 and to kick it off, they are organizing a contest for all Twlight Saga-Fans waiting for Eclipse and still remembering NEW MOON and the romantic kiss between Bella and Edward in Montepulciano/Tuscany!
Here’s the details:

ECLIPSE VOLTURI CONTEST: Win a holiday in Montepulciano, Tuscany and sleep in the room Kristen Stewart & Rob Pattinson spent their time when shooting NEW MOON

DEi iTALY Divine Tours, tourdesigner in Rome & Tuscany, in cooperation with STRADA DEL VINO NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO, the tourist board of Montepulciano, and HOTEL ALBERGO DUOMO in Montepulciano, is offering one lucky winner a holiday in Tuscany/Italy for 2 persons. Spend six wonderful days with your best friend or any other person in the room Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson spent their time when shooting NEW MOON in Montepulciano, Tuscany.

How to win: Show your passion for Bella and Edward and write down how you think the VOLTURI might threat their lifes in future.
Write a DIN A4 or letter size long chapter (350 to 400 words) about the VOLTURI. Think of all aspects Stephenie Meyer has not yet written about. You may write your story from Bella’s point of view – as Stephenie Meyer did in most of her novels – or choose any other point of view or style you find appropriate for your story and send it to volturi@newmoontour.com Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. .

Members of the FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION in Rome will select the winner!

Grand Prize includes:
- 5 nights in doubleroom in Hotel Albergo Duomo in Montepulciani, breakfast included
- one free NEW MOON MOVIE TOUR for 2 in Montepulciano including gadget and map
-  one free VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR for 2 in Volterra including brandnew MP3 Player

And their is more: 13 other fabulous prizes like free VOLTURI AUDIO TOURS, NEWMOONTEPULCIANO Shirts and Phone Socks are waiting for you!

DEi iTALYs NEW MOON MOVIE TOUR in Montepulciano is already a hit in Italy and on June 30, 2010, we are releasing our newly designed VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR: Learn everything about the VOLTURI and their life in Italy by listening to this very special AUDIO Tour at home or during your stay in Volterra or Montepulciano.
You can update your VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR with VIP Elements like a spicy drive to Volterra in a yellow Porsche and much more. For more information and listening to one chapter of the VOLTURI AUDIO TOUR click
http://www.volturitour.com
http://www.newmoontour.com

Deadline for entries is July 1, 2010. See their site for more details.

By Don Faust, www.DonFaustPhoto, for USA TODAY

Chris Gray Faust, of USA TODAY, had an informative article about Volterra, with its real Palazzo dei Priori, and Montepulciano, where New Moon was actually filmed. The photos from the New Moon Tour in Volterra are both beautiful and very interesting. The Volterra tourism board sponsors Twilight-themed weekends, including a reception with blood in what appears to be test tubes? Cool!

‘Part of a dark tradition’

Perhaps that’s because Volterra is doing everything possible to make sure that New Moon is synonymous with their city — even if it isn’t the one on screen. The town sent a team of colorfully dressed flag throwers to the Rome Film Festival last month, where they walked the red carpet behind the movie’s actors.

Not all cities would embrace vampires, particularly one with as proud a history. One of the 12 Etruscan power centers from the sixth to fourth century B.C. built on an economy of alabaster, iron and salt, Volterra boasts one of the largest collections of that civilization’s artifacts at the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum. A Roman amphitheater outside the town walls dates to the first century, and its medieval center remains one of the best preserved in Italy.

On his twice-weekly New Moon walking tours, guide Vincenzo Riolo sandwiches history between the fiction. “We try to connect the vampires to the Etruscans,” he says just outside Porta all’ Arco, a city gate built in the fourth century B.C. “It’s part of the dark tradition of the city.”

But of course, it’s the fanged ones that the teenagers want to see. The only English speakers in a group of Italian Twilight fans, Kunke and Regier, of Vancouver, giggle and snap photos in Volterra’s narrow alleys, trying to scare each other. “Omigod, is that a bat?” Kunke says.

Riolo leads the tour into a dark building, where they walk down a clammy staircase.

Waiting at the bottom: two cloaked men and a small woman, all deathly pale. “The Volturi!” Regier gasps.

The vampires walk silently among the tourists, pulling “victims” up on a stone table. The girls huddle closer together. “This is creepy,” Kunke whispers — before a vampire grabs Regier. As he attempts to bite her, she dissolves into laughter.

After the tableau, the tour-goers relive their New Moon moments over drinks. Turns out that the actors who played the Volturi are members of Compagnia della Fortezza — a theater troupe of convicts named after Volterra’s Medici-era fortress-turned-prison.

For once, Kunke and Regier are speechless. Guide Riolo laughs at their shocked expressions.

“Nothing is strange here,” he says later. “It’s part of our DNA.”

Read the rest of the article here and see more tour photos here.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart enjoy a nice lunch and some down time in Italy yesterday. New Moon filming is scheduled to begin today.

See more pics HERE at Gossip Girls.

Twilight Italian Moms and Twilighters Italia both spotted Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene and Charlie Bewely out and about in Iatly. TW Italian Moms also met Daniel Cudmore but there wasn’t a pic posted. Read their encounter HERE.

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 Twilight Italia’s Alice was in Montepulciano taking more pictures of the square that will be used for the Volterra scenes in New Moon, where she was only able to take a couple of pictures before being told she wasn’t allowed to be there.  Here are some of the pictures she was able to walk away with:

 

 

 

The first picture appears to be a statue of a saint, possibly Marcus.  The second picture is possibly the throne that Marcus, Aro, and Caius sit on.  The third is a storm drain that was installed in the square for filming.

 Special thanks to Alice for taking these pictures!  Thanks to Raven over at Twilight Italia for sending them to us.

Source: Twilight Italia

Twilighters Italia sent us new pics of the fountain and the red flags that they’re putting up in preparation for Saint Marcus Day.

Just a fast update on what is going on in Montepulciano…

They’re preparing for Saint Marcus day!

Today a pickup loaded with red flags and ensigns was spotted in the main square, piazza grande.

A few hours later all over the front of the cityhall there were those flags pinned.

Meanwhile the fountain is now almost finished and today it was painted with waterproof so now it seems a little more whitish!

Thanks to Twilighters Italia for sending us the update and pics!!

Twilighters Italia is sponsoring a Twilighters Meet Up in Montepulciano on Saturday May 30th:

With approval from the Municipality of Montepulciano and a partnership with the tourism association and the city press office, we’ll be glad to invite all of you on

Saturday May 30th in Montepulciano

for an unforgettable day among fellow twilighters!

Click HERE for all the details.

Twilighters Italia also is reporting some New Moon activity going on in Montepulciano:

Look at these posters that have appeared from around a week on the side entrance gate of the fortress, just where were held the casting a few weeks ago! It seems that the Italian double for Robert and Kristen were already there in the preliminary visit today!

See their report HERE.

~Kim C