August 17, 2010
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Cortina d’Ampezzo – paradise for sport lovers in Italy Updated: December 28, 2020 | By Claire | More In the Southern Alps, located in the northern part of Italy is where you will find the town of Cortina d’Ampezzo. The town is a well-known skiing spot which has many fine accommodations, restaurants and shops throughout […]
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Categories: Italy, Wellness, Relax & Sports
August 16, 2010
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Vicenza – golden city, Italy Updated: December 22, 2020 | By Claire | More In the northeastern part of Italy, one can find the city of Vicenza. The city of Vicenza has a rich and colorful history and an amazing culture. There are countless museums and art galleries located throughout the city. Situated only 60 […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 15, 2010
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Verona – the city of neverending love and paradise of open-air opera, Italy Updated: December 19, 2020 | By Claire | More About 30 km from Lake Garda you can find the second largest city of Venice area. Verona is the capital of the province of Verona located in northeastern Italy. The world’s awareness gained […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 14, 2010
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Padova – where the beauty meets spirituality in Italy Updated: December 26, 2020 | By Claire | More The city of Padova is located in the northern part of Italy along the banks of the Bacchiglione River. Situated only 40 kilometers from the famous Italian city of Venice, Padova has been a very popular tourist […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 13, 2010
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Lago di Garda – largest and most beautiful lake in Italy Updated: December 19, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More The largest and most beautiful Italian lake Lago di Garda is situated in the Dolomites at the foot of the mountain massifs in the northern part of the country. It is situated in the […]
Tags: 13th-century, adventure-lovers, alpine-glaciers, beach-volleyball, benaco, castle-dates, catullo, dolomites, foot-of-the-mountain, fun, garda-lago, glacier-lake, high-masses, history, hotels, interesting-places, italian-lake, italian-resorts, italy, jumper, lago-di-garda, lake, lake-garda, lake-lago, largest-lake-in-italy, lombardy, maximum-depth, mediterranean-vegetation, milan, mountain-hike, mountain-massifs, nature, northern-italy, parks-in-italy, relaxing-holidays, spa, sport, tennis, theme-parks, tourist-centers, tourist-destination, venice, virgilio, water-world, world-of-fashion
Categories: Italy, Nature
August 12, 2010
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Màntova (Mantua) is one of Italy’s greatest artistic and cultural centres — a Renaissance jewel in the Lombardy region, surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created in the 12th century, whose magnificent Palazzo Ducale (the largest palatial complex in Italy after the Vatican), Andrea Mantegna’s revolutionary frescoes, and deep connections to the musical heritage […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 11, 2010
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Grazzano Visconti is a surreal neo-Gothic fantasy village hidden in the countryside of Emilia-Romagna, Italy — a meticulously crafted ‘faux medieval’ hamlet built in the early 1900s by a visionary count. Every cobblestone, turret, and wrought-iron balcony was deliberately designed to transport visitors back to a romanticised Middle Ages, making it one of Italy’s most […]
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August 10, 2010
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Pavia is one of Lombardy’s richest treasure-houses of art, history, and culture — an ancient university city on the Ticino River, just 35 kilometres south of Milan, whose magnificent Certosa di Pavia (one of the most beautiful Renaissance monasteries in Italy), its Romanesque churches, and the Visconti Castle make it one of the most rewarding […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 9, 2010
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Milan (Milano) is Italy’s capital of fashion, design, and finance — a sophisticated northern metropolis that moves faster than Rome, dresses sharper than Paris, and contains some of the most extraordinary cultural treasures in the country, including Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper and one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in the world. Often dismissed […]
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Categories: Italy, Sights
August 8, 2010
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Bergamo is one of northern Italy’s most beautiful and authentic cities — a tale of two levels: the Città Alta (Upper City), an enchanting medieval and Renaissance hill town enclosed by 16th-century Venetian walls (a UNESCO World Heritage site), and the Città Bassa (Lower City), a lively modern Lombard city whose Piazza Matteotti and elegant […]
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