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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Of the places in the Potentino area of Basilicata, many stories could be told. Beginning with villages such as Abriola, the place that holds the relics of St. Valentine, where not only do so many bear this name in honor of the saint, but ancient trad...
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Each of us has a firm conviction not to be part of the masses, to break away from the qualunquialisms and common customs that a massified society has imposed: it is also with these intentions that we set out on vacation, certain that we will carve ou...
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In Caprarola, a small village in Tuscia in the province of Viterbo, surrounded by the Cimini Mountains, is Palazzo Farnese, one of the most extraordinary residences built in Italy in the 16th century. It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant jewel...
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Distant from the hubbub of the road, at 441 meters above sea level, isolated midway between the villages of Sarsina and Ciola, in inland Romagna, a small but precious church of mysterious age insists on the path of San Vicinio. It is the parish churc...
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Urbania enshrines within the walls of its Ducal Palace the poetry of Federico Barocci. Most enter here to get a close-up look at the Madonna of the Clouds, the beautiful painting attributed to him that is revealed at the end of a winding path through...
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Territories, some territories, also resist. To the outrages of time, to earthquakes and floods, to the disasters of History. They resist abandonment, they do not yield to the Siren song that whispers of other speeds, other places and escapes. Staying...
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With eight sites belonging to the Unesco World Heritage List, Tuscany is the second region in Italy, after Veneto, which boasts the highest number of sites included in the list, but in this special ranking it obtains first place if one refers to site...
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A region that seems tailor-made for those who love nature, outdoor walks among meadows and mountains, and a sustainability-conscious life : this is Vorarlberg, Austria. It is, after Vienna, the smallest of Austria's regions as well as the wes...
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Among the places of Gustav Klimt 's heart was certainly the Attersee lake in the Salzkammergut: in fact, the celebrated Viennese painter spent the summer months there from 1900 to 1916 in the company of Emilie Flöge, his muse, friend an...
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