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 city of ce...
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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 a title, T...
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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 the French ...
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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, stands one of t...
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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 neo-Palladian resid...
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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 that this ...
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If there is one aspect for which Reggio Emilia is famous throughout the world, it is the "Reggio Emilia Approach," an educational philosophy that is based on the strong developmental potential of children and their being considered as subjects of rig...
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There is no guidebook of the Garfagnana and the Middle Serchio Valley that avoids mentioning one of its most recognized symbols, the Ponte della Maddalena, known to all as the Devil's Bridge, which has always intrigued travelers passing through this ...
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For the past few years, in the florilegium of temporary capitals that, on the model of the European Capital of Culture, dot the peninsula, there has also been the recognition of Italian Capital of Contemporary Art, established in 2024. Nominations fo...
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It has been a few years since Costanzo Ciano's mausoleum in Livorno was last in the national news. It was 2015, to be precise. At the time, Daniele Caluri, the brilliant cartoonist who invented Don Zauker, had proposed painting it in the colors of Un...
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It may not be known to everyone, but Tuscany guards in its museums and historical palaces a relevant heritage of Japanese art, distributed capillarly over the regional territory and sedimented over the past two centuries centuries thanks to the passi...
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The mosaics of Piazza Armerina, the Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo and the Goddess of Morgantina are some of the best-known archaeological treasures preserved in Sicily. The island, over time, has returned extraordinary finds, outlining an unusual...
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In Nantes, there is a green line that winds across the asphalt like an uncovered, tense, pulsing vein that invites detour, slanted step, and the lopsided geography of desire.
It starts from a garden populated by imaginary creatures, stretching color...
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A trip to London involves certain rituals that cannot be avoided, among them undoubtedly a visit to some of the world's most famous museums such as the National Gallery, the British Museum or the Tate Modern. It so happens that even people who are no...
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Albert Camus had found at the age of twenty-four a fragment of his truth among the cells of the convent of San Francesco in Fiesole. He had climbed up here, on the hill overlooking Florence, in September 1937, and spent a morning among the Franciscan...
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Ten places to (not) visit on the June 2 bridge. Or rather: nine places, plus one off the list. Between the serious and the facetious, we try to point out those localities or places of culture that on the day after the long weekend holiday, ideal for ...
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