December 13, 2024 11:03 am

Travel

SPRING IN CENTRAL ITALY – Gubbio, Narni and Sezze: passion and precision, including ladies and minstrels

In the Italy Central, the year is marked by memories connected to the land, where planting and harvesting, harvesting and pressing olives perpetuate rites and peasant parties. To all this, for you are added pageants that have roots in the individual municipal reality, also gastronomically. Every hill is a microcosm waiting for you, with spring events that attract visitors from …

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FLORENCE, WAITING FOR THE DINNER- San Miniato al Monte and della Robbia ceramics, waiting for your romantic dinner at Cinghiale Bianco

San Miniato al Monte, you can recognize it from a distance, because a copper eagle (with a bale of fabric), stands on the church gable. With its polychrome facade in white and green marble – in the typical Tuscan Romanesque decor – this church, built in 1018, it continued for centuries to attract a huge amount of visitors. Upon entering, …

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THOUSANDS OF LAKES AND 818 ISLANDS – Tartu, Estonia: classical and baroque style, combined with delicious food

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. 47,599 …

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UNDER THE SKY OF PALO DURO – Insect repellent during the day and a sweater to protect yourself in the evening

The park occupies only part of the Canyon – 200 km long – that has formed over the millennia. The Palo Duro Canyon is considered one of the most beautiful in the world, for the extraordinary richness of its colors and the great variety of rock formations. You can go as you want this wonder of nature explore the canyon …

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DOWNTOWN CORAL GABLES & MIRACLE MILE – The Little Paris in Miami

Welcome to Downtown Coral Gables and Miracle Mile. Designer shops, art galleries, live theatre, great restaurants, bridal bliss, and houseware heaven. It’s all here. Relax, shop and dine with style, only at Miracle Mile. It is the main east-west road through the city’s downtown central business district, consisting of many shops, financial institutions, restaurants and arts institution. Downtown Coral Gables …

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BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS OF SIERRA ROSARIO – Cuba: 800 orchids and a castle in the clouds to the west of Havana

I was leaving early that morning from Havana, headed west in search of Soroa, who was waiting for me, in the mountains of the Sierra del Rosario. http://www.cubaculturaltrips.com/las-terrazas-sierra-del-rosario-biosphere-reserve/ The desire to see the wonderful park of orchids – full of life, 700 meters above sea level – had turned into reality. Observing nearly 800 orchids, I think the countries of …

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SEVEN FAMILIES IN SEVEN CENTURIES – The extraordinary cultural legacy of Považský Castle, Slovakia

Považský Castle, is a ruin of medieval castle on the right side of the river Váh, near Považská Bystrica in Slovaki, and it was one of the most important castles guarding the valley of the river Váh (on the opposite bank of the river Váh, there lies narrowest canyon in Slovakia called Manínska tiesňava, and there is a nice view …

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WADERS AND CARETTA CARETTA – Ponta do Ervatao and the encounter with the magic of nature. Boavista Island, Cape Verde

If you want an internet café you can go to Criola Gelateria, or at the Surf Center. I’ll wait at the beach, because the island Boavista offers us the possibility of an incredible hike, towards the Sanctuary of the Turtles. We’ll have to go over Curral Velho, looking the beaches of Praia de Joao Barrosa and Ervatao. Just in that …

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HORIZONS OF GLORY – When a bell can save a city: Brno and the Petrov hill

One of the strengths of this city is its compact historical center, almost completely devoid of traffic congestion in our cities. Corner above the old city of Brno, in the south-west we can find the most quiet streets of the whole city. All these roads embrace the Petrov Hill, the one where we’re going, walking for Biskupska. As you see, …

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WALKING TOURS IN ICELAND – Walking in Vesturdalur, facing south, looking Mjoifjordur

A good way to understand Iceland, is to walk. Yes, because it is through contact with the ground, by measuring your strength, you can understand what is a mountain, or a river, a fjord or lake. You could start going up the Vestdalur, around Mount Bjolfur, because this is really an ideal solution to compare yourself with your energy in …

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