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Il treno si prende comodamente da Roma, avendo cura di sistemare il prezioso mezzo  ciclabile nell’apposito vano bagagli. Una volta giunti alla stazione Celano- Ovindoli, non rimane che la scelta di percorrere il tratto di strada che collega le due …

La riviera friulana, nella parte meridionale della provincia di Udine, è un territorio veramente ricco di attrattive di ogni genere, che la rendono attraente in qualunque stagione: paesaggistiche, ambientali, naturali, etniche, archeologiche, storiche, culturali, agroalimentari, ludiche, balneari, ricettive, di intrattenimento, …

You may know this about me already, but I have a thing for towers.  Bell towers, clock towers, castle towers – you name it.  So when I was planning my trip to Venice and discovered there’s a tour inside the …

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When part of the Biblioteca Marciana, across the piazzetta from the Doge’s Palace, collapsed during its construction in 1538 its architect, the eminent Jacopo Sansovino, was immediately thrown into jail. A group of Sansovino’s influential friends, including the great Titian, …

“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue”.  It was the first piece of poetry I ever memorized.   I was five years old and in Mrs. Lowe’s kindergarten class in Geneva, Florida.  Christopher Columbus is the first historical figure I …

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Fall is the perfect time to sip your way through Italy. Many choices are available from week-long tours to day-trip jaunts from Florence, Milan or Rome out into the surrounding wine regions.   For example, if you want to spend …

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Due momenti molto suggestivi hanno caratterizzato quest’anno, in Trentino, il X Forum Green-accord per la Salvaguardia del Creato: il primo si è svolto ad Arte Sella, precisamente a Malga Costa, dove sono stati inaugurati i lavori con una conferenza dello …

I left my hotel at 7am and walked to the SITA bus stop ready for a day on the road.  I’d heard about the narrow, windy mountain roads on the Amalfi Coast but thought everyone was probably just exaggerating when …

When I  made my first poorly-planned and short-lived attempt at the age of 26 to live in Venice in the early 1990s, I thought of it as the ultimate place of art and artifice. I imagined that by traveling to …

Like any good college graduate, I’m intimately – and painfully – familiar with Jägermeister, that destructive German digestif that left so many of us hating the world the next morning, and with its bottle that strangely features a stag with …

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