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August 2026Partnership
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express — the 2027 season
VELYA joins Belmond's legendary train as an Italian partner for 2027, pairing the journey with private villas, palazzo dinners and the ground we know best.
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01Who's VELYA
Experiencing, rather than having.
Italy, with its unparalleled heritage of art, gastronomy, fashion, and design, is the perfect stage for this new vision of luxury.
This is why VELYA was born — to curate off-the-beaten-path experiences that go beyond the ordinary: private access to iconic fashion houses, adrenaline-filled supercar driving on legendary Italian circuits, exclusive villa stays, and bespoke events crafted with Italian excellence.
Every experience we design is unique, personal, and impossible to forget.
From a single point of contact, VELYA composes the entire journey — the experiences, the celebration, the way you move, and where you stay. Each strand is handled by specialists, woven together seamlessly.
The VELYA promise
How we look after you.
What sets VELYA apart is not only what we arrange, but how closely we hold it. A few convictions run through everything we do.
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Obsessive attention
Every detail is checked, re-checked and owned by one team. Nothing is left to chance, nothing is delegated to luck.
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Real support, around the clock
A real person who knows your file, reachable 24/7. Not a call centre — your team, day and night, wherever you are.
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One client at a time
We take on one event at a time, so the whole of our attention is yours — from the first call to the final farewell.
03Events & Weddings
One day to remember forever.
Planning a luxury event in Italy demands vision, taste, and an intimate knowledge of the country's finest venues, suppliers, and experiences. We create exclusive events for discerning private clients and corporations — from intimate celebrations and milestone birthdays to high-end corporate events, product launches, and incentive travel.
— Empathy
A deep understanding of your expectations is the most important ingredient for a successful event. We listen before we act.
— Expertise
Hundreds of luxury events managed across Italy, a curated network of world-class suppliers, and every venue personally inspected.
— Creativity
We engage, surprise, and inspire your guests with original concepts, refined Italian aesthetics, and flawless execution.
Our secret? We only manage one event at a time. For weddings and celebrations, VELYA collaborates exclusively with the world's most acclaimed wedding planners — professionals who share our uncompromising vision of excellence.
Italy is the world's greatest open-air museum — and VELYA is your private key to its most exclusive doors. We design themed luxury experiences that go far beyond standard tourism, each handcrafted around your passions, your schedule, and your idea of the extraordinary.
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Fashion
Immersive fashion journeys with Italy's most iconic maisons — private access behind the doors of the houses that defined style.
Maisons
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Passion for speed
Heart-pounding supercar driving on legendary Italian circuits — adrenaline, engineering and the thrill of the track.
Circuits
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Cultural encounters
Curated cultural moments that reveal the true soul of the Bel Paese — art, history and beauty, seen privately.
Culture
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Bespoke stays
Exclusive villa stays and tailor-made itineraries, woven together with the same Italian excellence in every detail.
Stays
"Every experience we design is unique, personal, and impossible to forget."
The VELYA principle
05Villas
Where you stay, perfectly in place.
VELYA has hand-picked Italy's finest private villas — from the dramatic cliffs of the Amalfi Coast to the snow-capped peaks of Cortina, the emerald waters of Sardinia and the rolling hills of Tuscany. Each property is personally inspected and selected for its exceptional quality, privacy, and setting.
Spacious living areas, fully equipped kitchens, private pools, and breathtaking views — the ultimate retreat for families, couples, and corporate groups. A luxury villa in Sicily, a private estate in Umbria, an exclusive hideaway on Lake Como: VELYA will find your perfect match.
"From the cliffs of the Amalfi Coast to the emerald waters of Sardinia."
The villa collection
06Luxury Services
How you move, taken care of.
From private jets and helicopters to luxury yachts and chauffeur-driven cars, VELYA provides a complete suite of premium transportation services across Italy and beyond — every vehicle selected for the highest standards of comfort, safety, and style, because the journey is part of the experience.
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Private jets
A last-minute jet from Milan to Sardinia, arranged, met and managed with discretion and precision.
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Helicopters
Helicopter transfers to a secluded villa or hard-to-reach retreat, seamless from door to door.
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Yacht charters
Yacht charters along the Amalfi Coast and beyond, on a schedule that is entirely your own.
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Chauffeur cars
Chauffeur-driven cars from our network, carefully selected for comfort, safety and style.
07Inspiration
Ideas for your next Italian chapter.
A glimpse of the worlds we open — points of departure for a journey designed entirely around you.
Journeys · Coast
A summer between sea and speed
Mornings on the water off Sardinia, afternoons behind the wheel of a supercar on a legendary circuit.
Celebrations · Italy
The art of the private gala
How one event at a time becomes a night your guests will speak of for years.
Stays · Tuscany
Living like the family of the house
Behind the gates of a private estate, fully staffed and provisioned to your taste.
08Our logo
A tangled skein, and the hand that untangles it.
Gavino SannaAuthor of the VELYA mark
A tangled skein — the kind of complicated, hard-to-handle situation in which VELYA is, quietly, the solution to it all.
The mark was drawn by Gavino Sanna — among the most celebrated and awarded figures in Italian advertising, born in Sassari and shaped between Sardinia and the United States, whose work helped renew the language of Italian advertising.
A friend of the family behind VELYA and captivated by the project, he gave the brand its mark by hand — a gift, and a quiet statement of what the house is for.
09The houses we work with
Where we place our guests.
A selection of the hotels and houses we work with across Italy — chosen for the way they receive our guests. With many of them the bond goes well beyond business: years of working side by side have turned them into genuine friends. We consider them far more than partners, and that closeness is felt the moment our guests arrive.
Others coming soon…
Travelling with Trenitalia
10In their words
Quietly, the highest praise.
A few words from the private clients we host and the agencies who trust us with their own. Names withheld, as ever — discretion is part of the service.
Recognition · 2024
Named Italy's leading tour operator for the care of Saudi royal families — selected by the Gulf's foremost luxury travel agencies.
An honour we hold quietly, in keeping with the discretion our guests are owed
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VELYA understood, before we could explain it, exactly the evening we had imagined.
A private family · Hong Kong
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Our most demanding clients come back to us because of VELYA. The safe pair of hands on the ground in Italy.
Luxury travel agency · Dubai
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Not a single detail was left to chance. One event — and all of their attention.
Father of the bride · London
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A true DMC partner — fast, precise, and never once a surprise on the invoice. Exactly what we need.
Destination management partner · New York
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Doors opened that we did not know existed. That is the difference.
Private collector · Singapore
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When we hand a programme to VELYA, we stop worrying. The detail they hold on our behalf is remarkable.
