Imagine a weekend away, exploring exquisite mountain villages that overlook Lake Como, then making your way to the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia to round out your evening with newly-promoted Como 1907 at home to seven-time European champions AC Milan. How about Florence on a Saturday evening for Fiorentina vs Juventus, then a casual Sunday afternoon gondola ride to the picturesque Stadio Pierluigi Penzo for Venezia vs Inter Milan? 

Topped off with the finest food and drink that Veneto has to offer, this is a palatable sporting and culinary package that would appeal to men, women, children and everyone in between. And with Venice and Lake Como potentially hosting Serie A games fortnightly, Italy's tourism industry will be taken to the next level during the autumn and winter months by soccer, the nation's religion away from religion.