My websites

MG Uberti

Over the past decade, my transformation from engineer to blogger has led me to create a series of websites that reflect my passions, experiences, and worldview. Each website is a stage in this journey, a piece of my world, a reflection of my experiences and thirst for knowledge.

Behind each of these websites and my many projects is the idea that one day, all together, they will form a coherent mosaic, telling a complete story.

Here is an overview of the various websites I’ve published:

My Promises

To all visitors of my websites, I promise to always provide honest opinions and thoughts. Here are my promises:

  • I will never recommend anything I wouldn’t use or buy myself.
  • I do not accept sponsorships for products or services I do not believe in.
  • I write everything myself: NOTHING is automatically generated by Artificial Intelligence.

This last point is very important: I encourage you to read more about how I use Artificial Intelligence.

 

Travel Websites

When I got married and moved from Rome to Germany, I radically changed my life: in Italy, I was a successful engineer with a great position in the aerospace industry. In Germany, I reinvented myself as a travel blogger. It was a bold (or perhaps crazy) choice driven more by intuition and instinct than by reason, but I needed a change. I wanted more time for the important things in life, and I decided to use my already good travel experience and a somewhat unique professional background: among the various roles I had in the company, I was also a travel manager for a large industrial group, which gave me both excellent connections with travel agents and great experience in contracts governing the travel sector.

 

uberti.eu

The first website I launched was named after me: uberti.eu is a travel blog (still online today) where I provide practical advice on how to organize trips and vacations independently by booking everything yourself through the internet. There were already many travel blogs back then, but I managed to stand out with my own style: I am and will always be an engineer, so instead of recounting travel emotions, I’ve always provided practical advice to solve the problems that arise while traveling or organizing a trip, all based on my personal experience.

This first website brought me great satisfaction: in 2019 (before the pandemic and the economic crisis), it had reached one million visits per year. The many positive comments I received from my readers encouraged me to continue.

It is an old site with a very basic design, but it still works well because the content is still valid:



In the near future, I plan to modernize it to make it even faster and more mobile-friendly, and above all, translate it into multiple languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Indian. These translations are now possible thanks to the evolution of Large Language Models (the models that allow us to communicate with what we call Artificial Intelligence).

But even today, it is a very useful website with many helpful travel tips: I have put effort and attention into it for over a decade, and I would be delighted if you found some useful advice for your trips here: Where do you want to go?

 

travelwonderer.it

My first travel blog, uberti.eu, is rich in excellent content, but at the beginning, I made a technical mistake: I developed it in Joomla, and over time, I realized it would have been better to build it in WordPress. In 2020, I decided to try a new experiment and create a new travel blog in WordPress, and from that experiment, the website travelwonderer.it was born:



I chose the domain name travelwonderer.it based on the wordplay between the English words “wonderer” and “wanderer”. This represents both the desire to explore the world with curiosity and the readiness to be amazed by the discovery of unknown and different places. These are, in my opinion, two fundamental aspects of every trip.

What you see online today here is the latest evolution of a site that has “changed skins” several times, though only from an aesthetic point of view: the quality of the content and the validity of my travel advice have remained consistent across all the travel blogs I have published over the years. However, I also made mistakes with this site: the domain name, although creative, was not ideal in the long run (the wordplay was fun, but the choice of a .it domain for English words was wrong and limiting, especially when I wanted to translate the site into English), and the site as a whole did not satisfy me. I knew I could do better.

 

esperienzaviaggio.it

The next evolution was esperienzaviaggio.it:



This new website had a graphic design that I really liked, but after launching it, I realized it was poorly built from a technical standpoint and was much too slow. Today, the speed of a website is crucial since most users visit my sites from mobile devices. This site initially scored below 50 on the Mobile Performance of the Google PageSpeed Insights Test (a fast site should score above 90). With a series of optimizations, I progressively raised esperienzaviaggio.it’s score to between 75 and 80, but the new goal was to create a site fast enough to score over 90 in Mobile Performance. I achieved this goal after an intensive study phase and continuous testing, thanks primarily to adopting a good WordPress theme that is lightweight and fast (in the end, I chose GeneratePress for my sites).

And even though with esperienzaviaggio.it I chose a better domain name, I made another mistake that I regretted and that pushed me to change once again: the .it extension limits it to Italian readers, whereas I wanted to address an international audience as soon as AI-based translators became available.

This process of growth in building and launching increasingly performant travel blogs eventually brought me back to the starting point: in the end, I decided to “renovate” and modernize the old uberti.eu by transforming it into a fast and dynamic WordPress site, updating its content, translating it into ten languages, and of course, continuing to develop it by constantly adding new guides to new destinations. The tourist destination I want to cover best is the country I love the most: Italy.

 

Best Travel Guides

Across these three travel websites, I have already published over 1200 pages. To help you quickly find the best content, below are links to the most important and well-structured travel guides:

In the near future, I will greatly expand the travel guide to Italy, particularly the guide to Rome and other major Italian cities. Also, see the map of UNESCO sites in Italy.

 

humantravelguide.com

Initially, instead of updating the old uberti.eu into a new modern, multilingual site, I had thought of reorganizing all my travel guides into a new .com site aimed at an international audience. I purchased the domain humantravelguide.com with the idea of developing a site that goes beyond a simple travel blog. The domain name declares the main intention: in a time when we are about to be flooded by websites automatically created with Artificial Intelligence, I want to focus on the human factor, convinced that a travel guide written by a human (who has traveled, tasted, and felt emotions) is certainly better than a machine-generated text optimized for another machine (Google) and aimed solely at making a profit.

But the domain name can also be read in reverse: this site would also be a guide to the human journey in history (a guide to the human travel).

After thinking it over, I decided to keep the travel content on uberti.eu and, in the near future, develop humantravelguide.com for the humanistic side of history, culture, art, religion, philosophy, and human society. This site will also be the launchpad for humanprospective.com: a site dedicated to visions and reflections on the future of humanity.

Given how long it takes to write a single page with truly useful content, you can easily imagine that all these are long-term projects: it may take me a decade to put all these sites online, but I have a clear reason for doing it, and I am a tenacious and determined person.

 

Other Minor Travel Websites

Among my various small websites dedicated to specific destinations, I highlight:

freevenicecitytour.com

A mini-site with just 2 pages but available in 5 languages (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish) dedicated to two specific aspects of visiting magnificent Venice: the free guided tours to discover the city’s most beautiful and interesting places and tips on how to save on gondola rides. Saving money in one of Italy’s most expensive cities is no easy task.

Other sites in development and coming soon: (all multilingual in the 5 languages listed above)

  • cracowguide.com
    A site dedicated to discovering the most beautiful and interesting places in Krakow, one of Poland’s most beautiful and visited cities.
  • ilovednewyork.com
    A highly critical site about traveling to New York City, highlighting its many negative aspects: as a young man, I wanted to go to NYC because I was attracted to the myth of this city, but now as an adult, I realize it costs too much for what it offers, and in recent years it has gotten much worse. In fact, “I loved” is in the past.
  • eternalcityguide.com
    A site dedicated to the eternal city, my hometown: Rome!

N.B. None of these URLs are active at the moment.

 

Shopping Advice Websites

After several years dedicated to travel blogging, I started thinking about diversifying my online publications. So, I decided to use another qualification I acquired as an engineer during my previous experiences in the large industry: my professional career was largely spent in the purchasing department, where I developed particular skills in the art of “buying well.” This is a skill I had honed since I was young: I was not born rich, and I always sought to buy the best with little money, which led me to gain solid experience in obtaining the best value for money.

 

sagaceacquisto.it

In November 2020, I published my first non-travel-related site: on sagaceacquisto.it, I provide advice on how to buy products and services online (and offline) wisely.



This advice is useful and important in these times of crisis when prices are constantly rising, and the purchasing power of our wages is drastically diminishing.

 

buywisebuybetter.com

The future development of this site will be buywisebuybetter.com, where I will translate my shopping advice into multiple languages. The domain name reflects part of my philosophy: in a world dominated by consumerism, where all influencers urge you to buy, buy, buy, I try to send a different message by advising you to buy wisely at the right price only what is necessary, because buying objects certainly does not bring happiness.

 

Other Minor Shopping Websites

As with travel, regarding advice on how to buy goods and services online wisely, I am developing some minor websites dedicated to specific topics or simple technical tests. Among these, the most interesting so far is siteperfect.net: a website where, in just 6 pages translated into 5 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian), I condense all my experience gained over more than 10 years on how to create a good, fast, and well-made website.

siteperfect.net/en/ homepage

Summing up the message of this site in a few words: good content on a website that is as fast as possible. Above all, fast: you can write very interesting things, but if your site is too slow to open, no one will read it. And for a fast site, two key services are crucial for making the right purchase choice: a lightweight theme and above all, a fast hosting (Note: the hosting service does not necessarily have to be in your country, especially if you are targeting an international audience). Between the two, the most important is web hosting: a lightweight theme on a slow server will still result in a slow site, which will attract few visitors.

 

I hate invasive advertising, and on all my websites there are no banner ads and there never will be. I do not use those annoying banners based on your interests that seem to follow you all over the web: you will never find ads tracking your past searches or visited pages on my sites. Not using these banners costs me a lot in lost earnings, but I don’t do to others what I wouldn’t want done to me.

Every now and then, you may find some static banners on my sites (which do not change based on the user viewing them) that link to services related to the page you are visiting, and only if I believe those services are useful.

However, these sites are my job, and I need to profit from them to support myself. For this reason, links are essential: if a visitor clicks on a link on my sites and then buys a product or service on the website they are redirected to (for example, renting a car for a trip, buying a book, or purchasing web hosting services), I receive a small commission. The sum of those small commissions at the end of the year constitutes my only income. Please note: these commissions do not affect the purchase price (the visitor would pay the same amount even if they accessed the seller’s website directly without using my links). Sometimes my links even include special discount codes that offer reduced prices not available elsewhere. In any case, all my advice is always aimed at obtaining the best possible value for money.

For this reason, it is important for visitors to click on the links that lead to websites where they can buy products and services online: this supports my work, allows me to continue publishing many useful guides and tips that I distribute for free, and is beneficial for those visiting my sites. It’s a win-win situation. And to facilitate this, it would be better to always accept cookies on my sites: I have minimized all invasive services to respect visitors’ privacy, but cookies are necessary to track this sales commission system.

There is also another type of link that is important for the survival of these websites: the sharing links created by visitors. Sharing is essential: if you find the content I publish online interesting, please share it on social networks or, better yet, on the websites or forums you frequent.

I invite you to follow me on social media and share the pages you find most interesting.

 

Social-themed websites

My travel blogs and shopping advice websites reflect part of my interests and, at the same time, help fund the publication of various websites and social projects that I want to promote. These social topics are the ones I truly care about.

 

I believe in Italy

In November 2021, I decided to use the homepage of my travel blog uberti.eu to deliver a completely different message. I felt an irresistible urge to publicly declare to all my readers (who, despite the travel crisis, were still many) that despite the worsening situation in Italy, I still believed in the country. I was strongly convinced this was important: the first step in solving a serious problem is to firmly believe it’s worth it. Many read that message, and it eventually spread to all Italians: Salvini chose my I believe in Italy as his main slogan for the 2022 general elections, and thus, my message reached millions of Italians.
Salvini never mentioned that I had written it (even though the Internet Archive shows with this page that I had published it months before he appropriated it), but I don’t care: what mattered to me was seeing how a simple social commitment text published on my website resonated so much that it reached the whole country.

Many people wrote to me, saying those words were important to them, and this gave me the energy and motivation to continue publishing pages and messages of social commitment on various topics.

 

Why I don’t publish news and politics websites

Initially, riding the wave of enthusiasm from the success of my ‘I believe in Italy,’ I had thought about launching a YouTube channel and a website dedicated to analyzing the current situation in Italy and abroad. But I soon realized that others are already doing this job better than I could. Among them, I particularly recommend following the Pubble YouTube channel: the talented Paola is a Roman girl like me, who almost always says exactly what I think, using the same words and Roman accent that I would use. Following her videos, I realized that she’s already saying those things better than I could, so it’s better for me to focus on other matters.

Among the many videos Paola has published, I especially recommend this one: published on October 2, 2024, it expresses exactly what I thought about the European public’s reaction to the escalation of hostilities between Israel and Middle Eastern states. However, the concepts apply to many other issues in our contemporary society, which is why I highlight this video. Our indifference to the escalation of conflicts in the Middle East is a clear sign of how frighteningly inhuman our society has become: we no longer feel anything in the face of others’ tragedies, the excruciating death of innocent civilians. Wars are no longer scary; on the contrary, they excite politics, the media, and the public. We no longer talk about stopping wars but about funding them and using deterrence, fueling an escalation of inhumanity. Paola expressed exactly what I think, and she did it better than me.

In my opinion, it’s essential to talk about these things, but as I said, others are already doing it better than me.
And most importantly: my time and resources are limited. I am alone, and already publishing all these different websites, in addition to my real-life social commitments, is a challenge at the limit of my modest current capabilities.

So I’m dedicating myself to other important social causes. In some fields, I work quietly behind the scenes, while in others, I will publish my contributions online.

For example, as an engineer, I feel the need to raise the alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence:

 

Artificial Intelligence

To put it very simply: the development of Artificial Intelligence, if managed well, could be a great opportunity for all of humanity, but given that we are generally governed by too many incompetent people, it will most likely go terribly wrong. We don’t even need to think about catastrophic Terminator-like scenarios where machines decide to exterminate us, much less is needed: just think of the economic and social crisis that will result from the loss of millions of jobs when (soon, much sooner than you think) machines and AI will outperform us.

The initiative is entirely in the hands of a few powerful private groups pursuing their interests cynically, while the governments that should be overseeing the process are completely absent. Don’t you think so? Shall we use a practical example? In Rome, they can’t manage the waste problem—a problem that has existed for millennia. Imagine how they will handle an issue they don’t even perceive, can’t imagine, and don’t understand. The Public Administration currently prides itself on having digitized some procedures, which means they are still catching up with changes brought about by the internet 20 years ago.

Even from the names of my domains, you can guess how I fear things will turn out:

aipocalypse.net

airmageddon.net

And I repeat: for disaster, Terminator isn’t necessary; the despair of the masses who will lose their jobs is enough.

We need to talk about it.

And we need to understand how AI works and what it does:

aiunderstand.it / .net

All these sites are still in the embryonic stages of development.
They will be published soon: follow me on social media to stay updated.

I’m a nobody, but I’ll do my part in trying to raise public awareness about the dangers of poorly managed AI.

 

Other projects

Future projects include the evolution of humantravelguide.com into humanprospective.com, a website where I want to reflect on the future development (or collapse) of human society, based on the insights developed in my other websites.

 

Religious-themed websites

Another sector where I invest time and resources is the rediscovery of the importance of religiosity, or at least interest in the transcendent, in our increasingly inhumane society. I’m working on publishing several websites on these topics: I aim to create a site dedicated to Romanesque religious art and architecture, with particular attention to the religious symbolism of Romanesque sacred art, as well as relaunching a series of websites dedicated to churches and cathedrals in Italy.
These sites dedicated to Italian churches and cathedrals are all domains that once hosted their official websites, which were then abandoned by ecclesiastical authorities (often due to negligence), sometimes taken over by private individuals who uploaded obscene or at least inappropriate content. I have now restored them to their original purpose.

I am focusing on important churches in Rome and cathedrals across Italy, with particular attention to large Romanesque cathedrals.

 

Romanesque

I have been fascinated by the Romanesque, a period of architecture and art that is now little appreciated, but whose symbolism in the simplicity of its lines, in my opinion, still conveys a powerful message: it’s worth rediscovering.

I’m about to launch the website romanico.it, dedicated to Romanesque art and architecture and its religious symbolism:

romanico.it“The Deposition” by Benedetto Antelami – Parma Cathedral

The multilingual version of this site will be romanesque.eu.

 

Websites dedicated to Roman churches

I was born in Rome, and from a young age, I was always struck by the abundance of churches in my hometown. There are so many, and so many of them are so exceptional that you eventually become accustomed to them and stop noticing them.

So, I was very surprised when I discovered by chance that one of them seemed particularly interesting to tourists:

 

Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Campo Marzio

While walking through the center of Rome in recent years, I was repeatedly struck by the unusual line of tourists that I always saw in front of the entrance to the church dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola in Campo Marzio: they were evidently not pilgrims; most were foreigners, including many Asians (who are rarely Christians)… what are all these people queuing to enter this church for?! Eventually, one day, I also entered and asked the custodians inside for an explanation: to my surprise, I discovered that this church became famous some time ago because some tourist guide or influencer started saying that taking a selfie at the inclined mirror reflecting Andrea Pozzo’s frescoed ceiling is really cool and must absolutely be posted on social networks.
What truly struck me, however, was seeing all these tourists (and we’re talking about hundreds of people in a constant flow) who, after taking their selfies, either left immediately or tried to look around the church, wandering aimlessly without understanding anything of what was in front of their eyes. I had the strong impression that many of them didn’t even understand what it meant to enter a church anymore. I mean it.

So, when I later discovered (by sheer chance) that the Jesuits had abandoned the domain that once hosted the official website of this important church, I bought it myself and, with minimal effort, published a website in five languages where I try to guide curious visitors to discover this church. I tell the story of the life and works of St. Ignatius of Loyola (a man who was first a soldier and adventurer before becoming a fervent worshiper of God and founder of one of the most influential religious orders in history), critically describe his spiritual exercises, illustrate the optical illusion of the fake dome, and much more:

https://chiesasantignazio.org/en/ homepage

But most importantly, I invite casual visitors and unaware tourists to sit on the pews, take a moment to rest, forget about the mirror selfie, and reflect. I invite them to take the opportunity to ask themselves: what does all this mean? This Baroque splendor, this enormous church full of works of art. Why? Why did they spend so much energy (and money) building it? There’s no correct answer to give: the important thing is to think about it and reflect, at least once in the frenzy of this modern life, which wants us to forget such essential questions.

The church is the place built by humans to meet God. Even if you don’t believe in God—actually, especially if you don’t believe in God—sit on one of the pews and, while looking at this church (or any other church that inspires a sense of transcendence), ask yourself: how did the universe come into existence? How did life come about? Is it just a chemical-physical process, or is there something more? Does some indefinable and unknowable creative force, which we simplistically call “God,” really exist, or is it all nonsense, and there’s nothing? And anyway: what happens after death?

There’s no correct answer to give.
No one knows the right answer.
But it’s essential to seek these answers.

And churches are the right place to ask these questions.
Especially for those who don’t believe. I say this from experience.

I believe this is a very important message to spread.

So, I started my small personal crusade to reclaim the official websites of important churches and cathedrals abandoned by ecclesiastical authorities. I bring these sites back to life by telling, to the best of my ability, the history and works of art of these marvelous places, then add at the end this invitation to personal reflection.

And I translate these websites into multiple languages to spread the message to a broader audience.

In Rome, I have also launched a website dedicated to the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Trastevere, known more for the adjoining Ancient Apothecary of the Carmelite monastery, one of the oldest pharmacies in Rome.

In the future, I may reclaim other sites of important churches in the capital, my city, but I want to focus my energy mainly on Italian cathedrals, especially Romanesque ones.

 

Websites dedicated to important Italian cathedrals

In the near future, I will launch websites dedicated to these cathedrals:

cattedralemonreale.it

cattedralediparma.it

cattedralefidenza.it

And perhaps, over time, I will add more.

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Social network and contacts

I have a complicated relationship with social media: on one hand, I like the idea of staying in touch with my readers and hearing their thoughts; on the other hand, I’m very private and deeply believe that spending too much time on social media is harmful. Over time, I’ve had ups and downs with various social networks: I explored and tested them early on (almost 20 years ago), then abandoned them, and now I’m making an effort to use them better, to maintain real and authentic contact with those who follow my work, and to better understand what my readers truly think.

The advent of Artificial Intelligence has given me a new reason to use them more convincingly: in a world increasingly dominated by artificial content, it’s important to stay connected with human beings.

For now, my presence on the most used social networks is limited to the travel world, but I invite you to follow me starting from there: follow me on my Facebook page esperienzaviaggio, where I’ll share travel updates and other news, and subscribe to my travel newsletter to receive exclusive content and reflections directly in your inbox.

I’m also working on new social channels dedicated to my other projects, so stay tuned!

To learn more about how I use social media and to subscribe to the newsletter, visit the Social network and contacts page.

 

 

I also invite you to read these other pages: