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Earlier this year, northern Italy's lovely Emilia Romagna region - north of Tuscany, south of the Veneto - was highlighted by the influential travel-media giant Lonely Planet as one of...
Ondrej Prosicky
When you read about spectacular autumn foliage and leaf-peeping, the vast majority of the attention gets focused on places like the northerly regions of the USA. But many Europeans...
When it comes to canals in Italy, Venice pretty understandably gets almost all the love. But southeast of Milan's city centre one of the city's most atmospheric districts derives no small part of...
This week one of Italy's top annual extravaganzas is underway. Carnevale in Venice is a spectacle like no other in the world, with people in elaborate masks and costumes with...
Let's face it - Rome is magnifica, but because of all the grandiose monuments that make it so, it can also be exhausting. The perfect place to slow down and...
This city is famously dubbed "the Fat" - with affection, or course. And it's also known as "the erudite" and "the red" ("la grassa, la dotta, la rossa"). Why these three?...