Tag: “Italy”

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  1. Como

    Como is a city in Lombardy, Italy, 45 km north of Milan. Situated at the southern tip of the south-west arm of Lake Como, it is the capital of the province of Como.

  2. Street artisan

    San Gimigiano basket maker

  3. Italian morning

    Somewhere between Milan and, let's say, Salerno is a vast world of mountains and mists in which we have managed to leave a mere tracery of our passing, roads and railways that hug the deeper valleys, small towns that venture short ways up the slopes. The rest is as ancient as ...

  4. Stormy Tower

    The Leaning Tower of Pisa in the Tuscan region of Italy.

  5. a view down the centuries

    From the balcony of my room in the Hotel Isabella on Taormina's Corso Umberto, where you can buy all the Versace and Dolce & Gabanna that you need to bring home, I could have looked right, to where the sun had risen over the Strait of Messina. Instead I looked left -- first to see where the morning light fell, and then across a few centuries of apartments and churches to the Greco-Roman theater, a reminder of just how new a newcomer to Sicily I was.

  6. Transportation along The Cinque Terre

    The train line that connects all the villages of the Cinque Terre.
    ©Clinton H.Wallace/Photomundo International, all rights reserved

  7. bologna

    Bologna, Italy. Indeed, the heart of where Italian food may have gotten its praise.

  8. Santa Maria del Fiore

    The best-known site and crowning architectural jewel of Florence is the domed cathedral of the city, Santa Maria del Fiore, known as The Duomo. The magnificent dome was built by Filippo Brunelleschi.

  9. Portofino bay

    Former poor fishermen's settlement in Northern Italy, today Portofino is famous for its luxury boutiques and restaurants. You can meet Rod Stuart here playing piano in hotel just for pleasure.

  10. Pietra Bismantova

    This mountain is situated in Parco Nazionale dell' Appennines Tosco Emiliano, Italy. It was mentioned in Dante's "Divine Comedy" and is described in contemporary Wikipedia as well.