Stefano Cortinovis

Stefano is like a diesel engine. Takes some time to get started, but then becomes unstoppable and very reliable.

Stefano's an excellent couchsurfer, well travelled, smart & talkative. You won't regret taking him in as a guest, as he has hosted heaps of people himself. Respect.

Stefano ended up at my place after too many beers and pekets, and I was glad to host him! He's a calm and nice person but he knows when to drink!

Stefano is such a sweet guy. He showed me and another Canadian girl around Bursaporto and Bergamo, and when I wanted to go to Cremona he came along. See you around! :)

Stefano is very nice and friendly guy, it was my first experience of couch surfing and it went really cool, although it was short time, but i really enjoyed time, specially roaming in old part of Bergamo was fantastic.
have a nice titme dude!

Even though I only stayed one night in his house, he took me and other couchsurfers around the city during that night. Really nice and very active couchsurfer. Thank you very much!

Stefano is a very cool guy in his very strange way. He speaks very fast, drives very fast and likes to host a lot of different people at the same time - just to see what happens. We had a weird experience sleeping in his uncle's flat, where we couldn't open the windows, because the neighbours would see:D Anyway, my high recommendations. See you in Tartu.

..Stefano and his mother, Paola:):), are very very kind..he is helpful, he does everything for his guests what he can..

Stefano - the man that can do anything! A great host, simultaneously welcoming endless streams of guests! Thankyou, see you in England.

and now..........after our first meeting another week end together than another one again than more and more time to share together because Cortinovis is guarantee's name in friendly, simpaty, smiling, chatting, biking. A really good guy!

We travelled together in San Marino with a mutual friend. Stefano was the boss and the driver during our trip. He is a real traveller!

Stefano hosted me and my mum 1 night in Bergamo with other cute CS-ers, so his house was full of guests and Stefano was so helpful to arrange transfer to the airport at 6 a.m., i really appreciate his efforts, I think he is a perfect host :)
And his mum loves CS-ers, too ;)

hello stephano, short time, short party, short hillseeingtour and no ice-eating but i hope you have more from the dessert. a dessert was also his couch, in a great big house with a beautiful mother. i liked the weather in bergamo, it is warm and there is no car-smok than in milan. short time but a lot of experiences, i think with more time there were a good base for a funny friendship. thank you for the couch! and take sometime a break for your self! 100% from me for you, daniel

Spending time with Stefano was fun,especially if u enjoy in fast ''italian style'' driving :) He has crazy CS spirit,he's funny and with some interesting goals in his life.Lots of greetings to ur mom too and her delicious cooking :)

Stefano was the member of C.S. that gave me his welcome when I made my page, so I was so happy to meet him.
Filnally I met Stefano in Venice on 19 july, at the Redentore Night Meeting with many other C.S. members.
Great experience!
We got a good talk and I find him really smart and friendly, guess it would be a great experience to host him. I hope we can meet again soon!

Met Stefano in Istanbulwintercamp. We spen a whole evening chatting about CS and his plans to move to Estonia.
Ambassador in the behavior and in his spirit, was an honor meeting him.
***Update June 2008***
Met again In Galiga! it's alway fun and a Great pleasure to meet this man!

Stefano made me visit Bergamo. I spent very good time walking in Bergamo & hanging out in the evening with him! He's very welcoming (like the other CouchSurfers) but had a very interesting & uncommon opinion about CouchSurfing! xD! So, I really recommend with funny guy (and his very nice & good cook mum')! See you next time in Milan!

"Stefano from Bergamo" seems to be everywhere and friends with everybody - wherever we go, he is there with his infectious smile, his relaxed attitude and of course his camera.

I remember sharing some good conversations at the Paella 2007, cooking sunrise pasta at the Beach Camp 2008 together and now we just met at the Paella 2008 again - what's next?

I met Stefano via Roland and I really Had the impression I had saw him before! Very nice guy, friendly, polite and helpful as well. Nice to see You around!

I met Stefano on a day trip to Bergamo with another CSer. He had patiently waited for us as we had initially missed our stop and then gave us a walking tour of the high city - beautiful. Stefano is an honest guy and great for frank conversation so I enjoyed his company.

I met Stefano at the Mt. Royal Summer Camp 2008, but we also saw us at the BBC 2008 in Berlin. Thank you for the invite to Bergamo and I hope to welcome you at my place one day!

Stefano met me in Bergamo on my short visit there and take me arround in his car to the beautiful Lake Iseo and the mountains arround. He knows a lot about his home area and likes to show it his guests. Also he is very enthuiastic to the Couchsurfing project and is a great host too! I met Stefano at a lot of Camps in the last 2 years: Berlin Beach Camp 2007+2008, CS Paella 2007 and finally at the Traben-Trarbach Summer Camp 2008. After the Camp Stefano stayed for 2 days at my place and we had a lot of fun together here. As a guest he is much more quiet, then on the camps but its always nice to met him and host him again. You see, next time you come here, stay a week like my other guests doing it!
I hope we met soon again and that you will do ALL your planned travellings in the next time!

Stéfano is one of those travellers you envy, spending a lot of time on the road. Good to know him^^

He knows, what tired traveler needs! THX for dinner, wine and for walk and lift to the airport! Good taste of music!

Stefano is the PERFECT COUCHSURFER.He know to take care about you.Very nice, kind, sincer, strong, cerebral guy.He take care about us best is possible.
A GREAT HUG from us to your MAMA.

Stefano is a so sympatic, funny and pleasant guy. He was during this two nights a perfect host. Thanx again for the nice restaurants, the Illegard and the Zavood !!!!
By the way, Schnappi greets you ;-)

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We met in BBC 2008 , he is such a lovely and nice guy that you really feel you know him for a long time, he is so sincere and friendly and warm and helpful that I can't describe, when you talk to him you feel that he is so warm and really enjoy being with him.I am happy having friends like this.
hope to see you again.
cheers
Reza (Hark)

Actually it’s really hard leaving a reference for Stefano because I could easily write something down for the next few hours.
We met in Milano during my 4 months stay; of course we’ve seen each other at a lot of parties/meetings. During one of them I talked with Felix (great Couchsurfer from Canada) about going to Venice the next day. Stefano just said: “Why wait till tomorrow, let’s go now, I have my car here” So we really went at one o’clock at night from Milano to Venice, it was such an amazing day! And it was really one of the highlights of my time in Italy, thank you so much for that.
Seems as he became something like my driver, a few weeks later he was the one who drove 3 other Surfers and me to the airport after another typical Milan-CS-Party. We had Proseco at 6 o’clock in the morning waiting for my plane to leave.
Now we met again by chance at the Berlin Beach Camp ’08 and had a really great time together talking, hanging around, drinking and cooking.
It’s so rare to meet such an incredibly spontaneous and adventures person like Stefano and I really hope to seem him soon again (what I will do for sure) and I wish him all the best!

Stefano is very nice and cool person!! He's also easygoing and funny!! We had a great time chatting, drinking and playing together on the last night of the berlin beach camp! Also, met him accidentally after we left BBC and he also let me carried his backpack which contained lots of necessary thing for him to survive lol!

Meet very briefly at Beach Camp, but since I was busy didn´t really have the chance to talk.

Stefano. He is a friendly and funny guy.
Hope I could see your "kung fu" skill in the future. :-) Good luck on your Chinese learning. Take care. All the best.

Met Stefano in Vienna..went out to check Viennese nightlife and checked out the town together for a bit.What I remember mostly about Stefano is he always love to tease his good friends and his smiling face :).

Stefano is a nice, quiet, smart guy with loads of interests. He's one of the most active guy in CS. and is a skilled photographer too!! if you'll have the chance to meet him you'll find an interesting and richful person..highly recommended!

SO i finally was able to meet my dear brother from Italy and we have nice family photo :D
He has a great aura around him. It was nice to chat with him. I'm looking forward to have a chance to talk to him more. :D

Keep up Bro! :) Don't let down the guy from New Zealand :D
We are family :D

We met several times around Italy and shared the same host once. Stefano is an extremely helpful and valuable component of our local team and we'll definitely miss him now that he's leaving Italy. Good luck!

Stefano got good CH spirit.He can tell you a 1000 and 1000 interesting stories about CH and you never ever get bored with him.His company is always fun and food what he do...you know..:)So see you in Rome and anywhere:)))

Stefano picked me up from the airport and showed me around Bergamo while I had to wait for my flight to leave the next early (really early!) to Porto. He gave me a nice tour of the city, his mother fed me some food and we went out for dinner and drinks with his friends. It was really nice hanging out with him! Good luck with all of your adventures, and how did your mother take the news when you told her you were moving to Estonia??

I met Stefano during my trip by hitch-hiking in Northern Italy. He was really a good host. We shared a good dinner (Thanks a lot to your mother too, for her kindness), and after a short visit of Brusaporto surroundings, where he lives near from Bergamo, we went with nice friends of him to have drinks in Bergamo center. The day after, he kindly picked me up to the train station. Thanks for all Stefano!

Stefano and his parents were excellent host . he was our first couch surf experience in Italy and was really a nice guy and was good help in the first day of our trip. I and Marika wish him all the best in Estonia and maybe in the future in his traveling trips. good luck traveler !

It was a nice to be in Bergamo. I enjoyed the time I passed with him"very much, although I not always understood what he was speaking about, because I'm not so good at English. He was really nice he met me at the station. He was really open-mind and funny.

Stefano let me stay for a night at his place near Bergamo. We had a drink with his friends and a great breakfast the next morning.

With Stefano it is possible to talk about anything, he is friendly and easy going. Uh, I hope you'll do your bike trip around the world and will couchsurf a lot on the way.
Edit: Passing Bergamo on a short bike trip I got in touch with Stefano and he was so kind to invite me to surf his couch (actually, more it is more a bed than a couch). We spent a few hours with his jolly friends and Stefano accompanied me for a few kilometers the next day riding my heavy bike. If I start a trip around the world I'll let you know for sure. All my best wishes for your start in Tartu!

Very helpful, kind, easy going, fun, sincere and considerate person with a lot of positive energy! I really can't find anything about him that I did not like:) He was our first host and how fortunate we are that he was a true couchsurfer! Someone who truly believes in the couchsurfing project and lose his heart to it! Too bad that it is not possible to list everything that he did for us.. He picked us from the airport, showed us the city and feed us with the delicious Italian pizza and gelatos! Gave us a double bedded room and made us feel at home by providing a great company in our first night in Italy. His mother was also very nice too (hope the henna had worked:) He even helped us finding hosts from other cities!! Thanks a lot for everything (except my funny Cocabuton picture:)! For sure, we will see each other again soon!!

edit: We met him in Paris again, it is a shame that he had to leave so early. Thanks for introducing us to the Paris group, we had a great time during the meeting. See you on your birthday and Christmas, which is my birthday:)

edit: I don't know how many edits I will write for Stefano until he writes me a real reference!! I am a true Bergamo citizen now and you know what, I might even move to Bergamo for my masters in Domus:) Thanks for the wonderful Italian lunch and your good company once again! I don't think there is any place in Bergamo that I haven't seen twice:) So I am going there just for Stefano(maybe for the cheap plane ticket and the icecream also:P) I will probably come again to visit 'the holy three balls church'(!) and to get blessed.. Sorry that I couldn't come to London to see the bloody fighters (thanks God!:) and you should be sorry that you missed the legendary belly dancing dinner!!

edit: Stefano came to Istanbul for Istanbul Winter Camp and stayed with me, great memories and very fun times and of course, the pleasure of seeing an old friend... I taught him how to use "The Secret", he taught me how to speak Italian on the never-ending bus trips in Istanbul... We went to Ankara too! I know that we'll meet again, possibly somewhere in Turkey or Estonia or Italy or another city:P CS causes you to make great friendships with the people that you would never ever would meet otherwise. I'm very glad that I met Stefano.

Stefano is a very very nice person, I enjoyed my short staying with him a lot. Since I am actually living quite close to his city, I think we will keep in touch(of course you have a long term travel plan soon, however, at least when you come to Italy, ci vediamo!!) He took me to his second home, airport, for my flight to Poland, and we had aperetivo and dinner together, with some other couchsurfers same night, and I stayed in his house. I am really happy to know him, see you again, soon!

What a helpful guy you are: STEFANO. I met this young student at the airport of Bergamo while waiting for my plane to Frankfurt-Hahn. We went also to the Commercial Center. It was really a pleasure for me to speak and making jokes . With him I met also Veronica a very lovely girl. Stefano, for your studies in law get the best. I hope we will meet us very soon again.

Stefano met me at the airport and let me stay at his house for a night. Stefano was amazing. He showed me around the area, took me to a perfect local restaurant, and really made me feel like welcome! He's got a great sense of humor and is really easy to talk to and hang out with. Very trustworthy and I hope he comes to stay at my place soon!!!

It was Bergamo, February 2008. Stefano picked us up at the central station and took care of us during this weekend.

There are so much comments about Stefano and I'm sure it will be more and more. All written is true, he is really nice intelligent guy, a Renessaince man, outstanding ambassador and great guide. I doubt whether I can add something essential to his personality. So I will tell you rather unessential to his environment:
- Don't get into his car, if you are an opponent of brutal treatment with cars!
- Get into his car if you a lover of aggressive sport driving ;).
- Computer takes the central place in his universal. Sitting in his big chair before computer Stefano looks like general in control center :).
- It's a challenge to be quiet in a house with squeaking doors :).
- It's also not easy to get up in time when the shutters in guest room are closed. You suppose six or seven mornings but it is already nine!
- It's obvious that Stefanos parents had a lot of guests: they can explain with all people although they don't know language. My deep respect!
- He might be the person who made the most amount of walks to the uppertown in Bergamo :).
- Remember the right accent: LombardIa, BErgamo, monOdico.

Be careful and take care of him, he is the most valuable treasure of Bergamo! :)

Even tired (Stefano had just arrived from Rome), he showed to Freddy and me some really great points of Bergamo and told us some histories about the city. Very nice guy, soon we will have a new couch available also in Estonia =P

After 10 minutes he all ready invited me and my girlfriend to surf his couch, I think he really fell the couchsurfing spirit, and he enjoy to share it with the other surfer!

we met in different occasions in Milan CS meetings.He is very, very nice and he like speak Spanish ¡genial!.Te esperamos en España!!.

Grappppppa!Hope to meet you again:)

Stefano is a great traveller, he loves to share experience with poeple, is a strong CS supporter (as u can see from his profile). Is always a pleasure to have a chat with him ;)

Stefeno is very good person, in istanbul we attended winter camp so we had many dialogs about everthing.. So, Stefeno is Stefano :)

We met in Bergamo airport.. it was the craziest drive to Milano I ever had :D Stefano is a very nice, smart, friendly person and he cooks good :D I am happy to know him :) Hope to meet again soon..

Future austronaut and Rambo XXVII, rolled the red carpet out for me in Milan, cheerful, latent Globetrotter, with great sence of humor, and solid knowlege.
He has almost reached his ultimate dreams, but his hair is far too short . :-)..
See you soon young brother ...
Update DEC 07 we both were at IST wintercamp.. /his hair is growing,,
Update MAY O8 Berlin Beachcamp sharing Sarah s tent for a cold night.. . the brother is getting old..
Update JUL 08 on the road again to San Marino this time.. he is a
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We had a good time talking, dancing and partying in istanbul - very open minded!

Stefano is a nice and kind boy and I meet also the mam, a lovely and funny woman! In Stefano's house there is a beautiful air!Lara

I first met Stefano in Krakow, and then he hosted me for a night in Bergamo. I contacted him at the very last minute, and even during the holidays, and he welcomed me into his home. He picked me up at the airport very late at night after my delayed flight, and took me to the train station early the next morning. He was sick the whole time too! I felt bad that you had to do all that Stefano, but you are definitely an awesome host and epitomize what CS is all about. Buona fortuna in Istanbul and with the Estonian project!