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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Deep beneath the Slovenian countryside lies one of the most extraordinary geological features in Europe: the Vrtoglavica Cave, home to the deepest single vertical drop of any cave pit in the world. The main shaft plunges 603 metres in a single, breathtaking drop, creating a space so vast that the entire Eiffel Tower could fit […]
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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The Valley of the Temples at Agrigento is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, the richest and best-preserved group of ancient Greek temples outside Greece, standing in golden sandstone splendour on a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean in southern Sicily. A UNESCO World heritage site and the crown jewel of Magna Graecia, […]
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Ostuni is la Città Bianca, the White City, one of the most spectacular hill towns in southern Italy, a dazzling cascade of whitewashed houses, staircases, and alleyways rising from the olive groves of Puglia’s Valle d’Itria whose uniformly white-painted architecture (originally a medieval sanitary measure using lime wash to disinfect the streets, now a beloved […]
Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco in Italian) is the highest mountain in the Alps, the highest in Western Europe, and the highest in Europe at 4,805.59 metres, a colossal dome of snow and ice straddling the border between France and Italy that has been the holy grail of mountaineering since its first ascent in 1786 and […]
Riomaggiore is the first of the five Cinque Terre villages when approaching from La Spezia, nestled in a valley carved by the river Rivus Maior from which it takes its name. Colourful tower houses climb the steep hillside, each painted in a different pastel shade that reflects the Mediterranean light. An old story traces the […]
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