“If only I could be the dust on the road and the feet of the poor could trample me.” I’ve often thought about these lines by Fernando Pessoa lately, but especially while walking across the floor of Alexander…
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Along the roads that cross the Po Valley, Bologna has always been much more than just a stopover: since ancient times, the city can be considered a sort of living hinge, a restless crossroads where people, ideas, and artistic visions have…
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Bruges is so beautiful that, at some point, you almost feel like ruining it. You feel the urge to run a fingernail across the polished surface of its facades, to smudge the reflection in the canals, to take that obscene precision with…
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To help his readers understand just how steep and arduous the ascent of Antipurgatory was, Dante suggested they imagine a whole range of inaccessible places, starting with Noli, which—if we are to trust the fourth canto of *Purgatory*—…
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Travel Art and war National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art Rome World War II
If a tourist or traveler exploring the lands of Southern Italy finds themselves in Calabria, lost among the trails of the Stilaro, and stumbles upon that treasure trove of art that is the Cattolica di Stilo, they will find not only an…
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There are museums that add works of art. And then there are museums that raise questions. The FAMM—Femmes Artistes Musée Mougins —definitely belongs to the second category. Founded from Christian Levett’s collection, the museum is…
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Travel Academy Galleries Ancient art Six hundred That's amazing! Venice
Nestled among the pink folds of the Belluno Dolomites, where the Veneto region borders Friuli-Venezia Giulia, lies the Cadore: a land suspended between dizzying cliffs, shimmering bodies of water, and a rich historical heritage. Its…
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Right in the heart of Genoa, along that noble street that, starting in the first half of the 19th century, was known as “Strada carrettabile Carlo Alberto”—and is now called Via San Lorenzo—stands one of the most famous…
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To see the palace, you have to turn your back on the Duomo; if you want to see the Duomo, you have to forget about the palace. Two visions of stone and marble. The palace and the cathedral scrutinize and measure each other, standing face…
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The imposing monolith of Theodoric’s Mausoleum, as scholar Marisa Bianco Fiorin wrote in 1992, “has always aroused great curiosity among the general public and considerable interest among art and architecture specialists over…
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The understated elegance of its façade, located along Via Tonducci in Faenza, does not hint at the wonders that await the visitor beyond the threshold of Palazzo Milzetti: yet, that is how one might consider this jewel in the center of the…
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In 2003 a conference was held in Cesena celebrating the 550th anniversary of the opening of one of Italy's most illustrious cultural jewels, the Biblioteca Malatestiana, inaugurated in 1454: the organizers decided to give that day of study…
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The cultural heritage of the city of Odessa, Ukraine's great Black Sea port, is unique in the richness of contributions from different European cultural traditions. This is the result of the city's peculiar history, founded in 1794 during…
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The image of Siena is usually associated with its medieval past, but in fact in the urban fabric of the city one can still breathe the air of its Renaissance, and in particular, at the corner of Piazza Postierla and Via del Capitano…
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Dust, damp patches, dirt encrustations, cobwebs, walls covered with lime, Giambattista Tiepolo's frescoes hidden by heavy metal grates. Those who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, had entered Villa Cordellina, a splendid…
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As soon as you go up to the Belvedere of Albugnano, a village of five hundred inhabitants announced by the vineyards that, having finished the Turin hinterland, rise from Chieri to the bald hillocks of the Basso Monferrato, a sign explains…
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