Trento – traditions of Alpine countries, Italy

Updated June 10, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

Trento sits in the Adige Valley where Italian warmth meets Alpine crispness. The Dolomites rise to the north and east, their jagged peaks visible from the city squares below. This city is famous for the Council of Trent, the 16th-century church gathering that shaped Catholicism for centuries, but Trento offers much more than history. The […]

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Milano – the city of Italian fashion

Updated June 11, 2026 by europeexplored No Comments

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 as […]

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