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A Load of Bologna | Lee Marshall | Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Bologna
There is no doubt that the bolognesi are good eaters - and drinkers - but this is just one outward sign of their joy in the here and now
A Long Weekend in Ravello | Lee Marshall | Italy, Amalfi Coast, Ravello
Ravello is also a place that sharpens one's appetite for high culture
Amalfi Coast | Lee Marshall | Italy, Amalfi Coast, Amalfi
Sip a dry martini on the Hotel San Pietro's private beach, or eat spaghetti con le vongole next to a Polaroid-friendly spate of fishing-boats in a narrow cove...
From the sea, the villages of Cinque Terre seem impossibly precarious. Five brave stacks of houses are strung out like a difficult chord along the Ligurian coast just west of La Spezia
Costa Smeralda | Lee Marshall | Italy, Sardinia, Costa Smeralda/Porto Cervo
Few stretches of the Mediterranean coast look as good as the Costa Smeralda, a purpose-built millionaire's paradise on the rugged north-eastern coast of Sardinia
Eating & Drinking in Florence | Lee Marshall | Italy, Tuscany (Florence), Florence
Leftovers also play a role in the filling soups and mushes that take the place of pasta as the classic Florentine primo
Football in Venice | Lee Marshall | Italy, Veneto, Venice
As most regulars have credit-card style season tickets, those queueing at the booths are mostly passing trade - including a surprising number of tourists, who trek out to the stadium on impulse
Genoa | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Riviera, Genoa
Charles Dickens was struck by the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of Genoa when he passed through in 1844: 'it abounds in the strangest contrasts: things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful and offensive
How to Eat and Drink in Venice | Lee Marshall | Italy, Veneto, Venice
Gourmet Venice is like a huge snakes and ladders board. The snakes are everywhere - surly service in top-flight restaurants that should know better, hidden extras that double the price of the most innocent bill...
Ischia Gardens | Lee Marshall | Italy, Capri and Ischia, Ischia
Imagine a valley where frost is unheard of, where great, fleshy camelia flowers bob on trees and lie fallen at one’s feet; where New Zealand tree ferns unfurl with prehistoric langour, and where the bulbous dragon tree
Lake Como | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Como/Menaggio
It is a lake which in the savage beauty of its green and white shores, in the way the wind whips the surface into wayward textures, in the way it is very difficult to be there and not be in love
Lake Garda | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Lake Garda
Garda is the largest and the most comfortable of the Italian lakes. You might dally with Orta, or lose your head over a little flirt like Iseo - but Garda is the lake you come home to
Lake Maggiore | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Lake Maggiore
The Borromeo family has a bit of a monopoly on sightseeing around central and southern Lake Maggiore. They own the palaces and gardens on the Isola Bella and the Isola Madre
Lake Orta | Lee Marshall | Italy, Italian Lakes, Lake Orta
Orta is a place of mists and devotion. Morning mists come with the territory: this little jewel, just eight miles long and less than two miles wide, is the only one of the Italian lakes entirely in Piedmont
Letting the train take the strain | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome
Oh, the effortless elegance of rail travel. White linen in the dining car, watching the sun set over the Tuscan coast, then golden slumbers all the way to Paris, lulled by the clackety-clack of the wheels on the track
Notes From Jordan | Lee Marshall | Jordan, Petra, Petra
Jordan still has tourist kudos. Tell your friends you're going there, and likely as not they will exclaim "Jordan!" in that tone that's somewhere between surprise and trying to remember where the hell it is.
For those who value solitude and wide-open spaces, the Po Delta is a rare haven in a country where the line between land and sea is more often associated with free-for-all development and swimming bans.
Rome: A General Introduction | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome
Just across the grass from John Keats, whose name lies writ in water in Rome's Protestant Cemetry, is a pyramid. A pretty large one too - build in 12AD as a funerary monument for a wealthy praetor with exotic tastes
Rome: a personal memoir | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome
It’s the sheer theatricality of the place that hits you first. That obelisk, flanked by four Napoleonic lions spewing water. The symmetrical Baroque churches on the far side
Shopping in Milan | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lombardy, Milan
The sales happen in January and July. These are also the times to buy the latest must-have fashion items from the new collections before everyone else
The Palio: a practical guide | Lee Marshall | Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Palio Jockeys slash at each other with whips, box in their rivals, dash for the best angle and, not infrequently, end up sprawled beneath the oncoming hooves or find themselves dropping in on the spectators
Trieste | Lee Marshall | Italy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trieste
Under Allied military government after 1945 - it was contested between Italy and Tito's Yugoslavia - Trieste became a UN protectorate in 1947, and was finally assigned to Italy in 1954, part of an isolated Italian thorn
Unforgetable Capri | Lee Marshall | Italy, Capri and Ischia, Capri
“Capri makes you forget everything,” said one illustrious visitor to the island in 1910. It was not Oscar Wilde, André Gide, or Rainer Maria Rilke, though they all came, saw, and waxed lyrical. It was Vladimir Illich Lenin
When in Rome… | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome
Inexplicably, many visitors consider Roman traffic to be chaotic and terrifying. To cross effectively, do what the locals do. Pick your spot - zebra crossing or no zebra crossing
Why Go To Rome? | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome
Because it's there. Because it's dripping with history. But also because it is a vibrant capital city, which offers a slice of real life so often missing in tourist-swamped Venice or Florence