October 23, 2010
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Pienza – the model of the Renaissance town in the heart of Tuscany, Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Pienza is a lovely town, whose small chamber center had been almost totally rebuilt by Pope Pius II. in 15th century. In 1405 in Corsignanu, as Pienza was called at that time, […]
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October 18, 2010
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Napoli – busy city under Mount Vesuvius in Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More Naples (or Napoli in Italian), with more than a million inhabitants, is the capital of Campania and lies in the Gulf of Naples. It is the third most populous city in Italy, the entire area has […]
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October 16, 2010
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Crete Senesi – Siennese Clays with its diversified “lunar” landscape in Tuscany, Italy Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Crete Senesi is the area not far from Siena, in the valley of rivers Arbia, Ombrone, and Asso. The area includes the towns like Asciano, Buonconvento, Monteroni d’Arbia, Rapolano Terme and San Giovanni […]
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October 13, 2010
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Ischia and Procida are the two often-overlooked gems of the Bay of Naples — Ischia, the thermal spa island of volcanic origins with its dramatic Aragonese Castle rising from the sea, and Procida, a tiny, impossibly colourful fishing island that was Italy’s Capital of Culture in 2022 and remains one of the most authentically beautiful […]
Tags: capri, cheap-accommodation, cheap-hotels, city, extinct-volcano, ferry-port, few-minutes, gems, gems-of-the-bay-of-napoli, grande-view, holiday-resorts, ischia, ischia-porto, island-in-the-gulf-of-naples, island-of-capri, italy, marina-grande, napoli, napoli-italy, neighbor, port-marina, procida, sant-angelo, southern-tip, tourists, town, western-coastline
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October 10, 2010
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Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) is the most famous volcano in the world — the brooding 1,281-metre giant looming over the Bay of Naples whose catastrophic eruption in AD 79 buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in metres of ash and pumice, preserving them in extraordinary detail for nearly two millennia and creating one […]
Tags: 18th-century, car-park, gulf-of-naples, herculaneum, italy, lava, monte-vesuvio, mount-vesuvius, nature, pompeii, pompeii-and-herculaneum, rediscovery, refreshments, roman-cities, roman-city, sidewalk, souvenirs, towns, troubled-history, vesuv, volcano, vulcano, weather
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October 9, 2010
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The Abbey of San Galgano is one of Italy’s most atmospheric and romantic ruins — a roofless Gothic Cistercian abbey in the Tuscan countryside near Siena, whose soaring walls and empty window arches frame nothing but sky, and whose nearest hilltop hermitage houses the legendary Sword in the Stone — Italy’s own Excalibur. Abandoned in […]
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October 5, 2010
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The Royal Palace of Caserta with the Park in Italy Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Caserta Royal Palace or the Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta) is the former Baroque residence of Bourbon family. It is situated in the south part of Italy, in the town of Caserta in Campania. […]
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October 2, 2010
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Siena – medieval traditions in the heart of Tuscany | Italy Updated: May 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Siena is the best preserved medieval city in Italy, surrounded with the ancient walls. It is located in the heart of Tuscany and has 55k inhabitants. It is said that the people of Siena speak […]
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September 30, 2010
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The Gardens of Ninfa (Giardino di Ninfa) are widely considered the most romantic garden in the world — a hauntingly beautiful English-style landscape garden created among the atmospheric ruins of a medieval ghost town in the Lazio countryside, just south of Rome. Declared a Natural Monument of the Italian Republic and described by The New […]
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September 27, 2010
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San Gimignano – Medieval Manhattan in Italy Updated: December 20, 2020 | By Claire | More San Gimignano – the city of the beautiful towers – is a small walled medieval hill town located in north-central Italy in the province of Siena, Tuscany. The town lies 56 km south of Florence and 38 km north-west […]
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