Updated: April 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Tindari is a small coastal town situated on a rocky hill (Capo Tindari) and contains the remnants of an ancient Greek site Tyndaris from 396 BC. Thanks to its strategic location, the city could easily control and prevent the sea between the Aeolian islands and Messina […]
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Updated: July 31, 2020 | By Claire | More Pantheon (also known as Santa Maria della Rotonda) is a Christian church located in the centre of Rome, in Italy. Pantheon was built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC, and was dedicated to three Roman gods, serving as a temple to the planetary deities. Unfortunately in […]
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Updated: July 31, 2020 | By Claire | More The most beautiful fountain in Rome is undoubtedly the Fontana di Trevi, and with its height of 25.9 m and width of 19.8 m it is also the largest fountain in Rome. This amazing work of art decorated with Baroque marble sculpture is one of the […]
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Montepulciano is one of the most beautiful hill towns in Tuscany, a medieval and Renaissance jewel perched on a limestone ridge between the Val d’Orcia and the Val di Chiana, famous for its Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (one of Italy’s great red wines), its elegant Renaissance palaces, and its starring role as Volterra in the […]
The Dolomites are arguably the most beautiful mountain range in the world, a UNESCO World heritage landscape of sheer limestone pinnacles, pastel-coloured rock faces that glow brilliant orange and pink at sunset, and some of the finest skiing, hiking, and via ferrata climbing in the Alps. Stretching across the northeastern Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige […]
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Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Elba is one of the most beautiful islands of Italy with crystal clear water. It is the third largest island of Italy – after Sicily and Sardinia. Its capital city is Portoferraio which is the largest city of Elba. The island is situated about 20km west […]
Pollino National Park is the largest national park in Italy, a vast, rugged wilderness of nearly 2,000 square kilometres straddling the border of Calabria and Basilicata in southern Italy, where the rare Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii), a living fossil from the Ice Age, still grows on the high limestone peaks of the Pollino and Orsomarso […]
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The Scala di Santa Maria del Monte in Caltagirone is not merely a staircase. It is a work of art, a feat of engineering, and a symbol of the city’s identity all rolled into one. This monumental staircase, consisting of 142 steps, climbs the hillside from the Piazza del Municipio to the Church of Santa […]
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The San Remo Music Festival (Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo) is Italy’s most important musical event, the legendary annual song contest held at the Teatro Ariston on the Ligurian Riviera that launched the careers of Italy’s greatest performers, inspired the creation of the Eurovision Song Contest, and remains the most-watched television event in Italy […]
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Segesta is one of Sicily’s most hauntingly beautiful ancient sites, a perfectly preserved 5th-century BC Doric temple standing in solitary splendour on a remote hillside in the Sicilian interior, its 36 columns silhouetted against the sky with no modern development in sight. Built by the Elymians, one of Sicily’s three indigenous peoples, this unfinished temple […]
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