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On a hot summers day, when we were blinded by the play of deep shadow against bright sunlight in the leafy, lime-lined avenues of Aix-en-Provence, we drove out of town, giving up the search for Czannes studio. But next m...
Think of animal welfare and Italy and if any one person springs to mind it is probably Giuseppe Garibaldi and his brave start in 1871 in establishing the Societ Protettrice degli Animali in Turin. Badgered by a redoubtab...
What kind of agonised soul would ever stay in an airport hotel? Would he be a plane-spotter? Someone afraid of city centres? And surely any individual wanting to stay among planes only half an hour from Rome must be even...
Do you like to touch and feel when shopping? Are you tempted to pick up items you have no intention of buying just to take a closer look? Have you been chastised for reaching into a window display as if youve defiled sac...
Christmas trees, Santa Claus and the presepio. These were the main elements of Christmas as I remember it as an Italian American growing up in New Jersey. Both my parents families emigrated to the US from Naples, taking...
Tivolis prosperity is evident from the immaculate state of the cobbled streets and the bustle of its numerous shops and eating places. This wealth derives from the great travertine quarries in the plain below and from th...
Finding just the right gift for someone can be as much fun for the giver as for the recipient. However, if you dont enjoy shopping it can bring on a nasty case of the bah humbugs. To aid the shopping-challenged here are...
The idea of moonlight strolls through the dark ruins of Pompeii has been a long-cherished dream of curator Pietro Giovanni Guzzo. This dream has finally become reality with the launch of a spectacular audio-visual experi...
Rome celebrates fashion with a series of fashion shows and related events from Monday 10 July to Friday 14 July.
The majority of the events will be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, however the Campidoglio, Tem...
Drive south from Arusha in north Tanzania for about fours hours (you calculate travel in terms of time rather than distance in many parts of east Africa). Then climb for another four hours into the hills above the small...
Rossinis musical invention throughout this sparkling comedy is always delicious and often sublime, with a wonderful array of those witty ensembles he so excelled in. The overture may not be one of his most inspired, but...
The editor and owner of a newspaper catering for what he called the most maligned immigrant community in Italy acknowledged: In the beginning, there was a real press campaign against us. We were attacked and held respons...
Three years shy of its 50th birthday, Alitalia is in a bad way coughing, spluttering, shivering with fever and getting worse by the day. The national airline has been in poor health for some time, ending ten out of the...
Above: Texan vocalist Ruthie Foster opens this year's line-up on
15 July. Photo
by Scott Newton.
Left: the waterfall in Isola Liri provides a spectacular backdrop for
the annual festival dedicated to
blu...
This guide gives information on how to tour Rome cheaply (updated September 2004). Backpackers are not Romes typical tourists so the city may seem inhospitable at times, especially accommodation-wise. The best zone to st...
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