Diana Dopson

Focus: Designing custom travel filled with rich cultural experiences - to Italy and beyond.

Diana is an artist and art historian from Austin, Texas, whose love of al lthings Italian was sparked 26 years ago in a graduate course in Renaissance architecture. Her work in Italy began in 1998 for Butterfield and Robinson, a company of visionaries who pioneered the luxury active travel sector. She has designed and guided countless trips since then all over Italy, from Venice to Sicily. Her Italian friends joke that she knows Italy better than they do! Fluent in Italian, Diana lives part time in Austin and part time on the Amalfi Coast.

Diana received her M.F.A. in photography and her M.A. in art history from the University of Oregon, with a concentration in Italian Renaissance and Baroque architecture. In 1998, she completed the Corso Internazionale sull’Architettura di Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, Italy, an in-depth study of the buildings of Palladio in the Veneto near Venice. She holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was also an All-American tennis player and valedictorian of the College of Natural Sciences. In her free time, Diana enjoys reading about art history and natural history, playing tennis, and long walks with friends and her dog, Jack.