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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Loket Castle is one of the Czech Republic’s most dramatically situated medieval fortresses — a 12th-century Gothic castle perched on a granite rock surrounded on three sides by the Ohře River, in the charming little town of Loket near Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia. With its well-preserved medieval interiors, gruesome torture chamber exhibition, and a […]
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