"Three skiers peek out of a porthole-like opening in the massive rock face of 2,800m Mount Lagazuoi, high in the spectacular and beautiful Dolomite mountain range above Cortina. They look down upon a sprinkling of skiers enjoying the wide, open..."
The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 2 of 28
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The Hidden Valley
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Alf Alderson
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Italy
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Dolomites
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Cortina d'Ampezzo
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A Walking Holiday in Mugello
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Rebecca Ford
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Montalcino
"It’s late morning when we stop for a rest. We settle down on a convenient rock and take welcome gulps of water. It’s October but the sun is unseasonably strong and we have to pull down our hats to shade our eyes. Far below us lies a lake, so..."
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La Kalsa, Palermo
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Stephen Emms
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Italy
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Sicily
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Palermo
"Palermo’s oldest district, La Kalsa, Arabic for ‘pure’, was neglected for years after World War Two, in which its inspiring hotchpotch of Moorish, Baroque and Norman architecture was nearly destroyed. Whilst it's still a city in progress, with..."
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Dario Cecchini, the Butcher of Panzano
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Kamin Mohammadi
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Chianti
"When I moved to Tuscany as a teetotal vegetarian, I had little idea what an anomaly I would be in the region famed for the quality of its wine and the tenderness of its steak. The marvellous grapes of Chianti aside, I soon learnt that to eschew..."
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Wild Swimming in Tuscany
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Kamin Mohammadi
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Siena
"It was one of those intensely cold March days in Tuscany where the dying winter puts on its best effort to freeze bones for the last time, and my new boyfriend was winding along roads off the motorway south of Siena. It was the beginning of our..."
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Sex on the Beach
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Tina Walsh
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Italy
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Emilia-Romagna
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Rimini
"You know you’re staying at the right place when Joaquin Cortes swaggers into the lobby of your hotel to pick up his room key, even if his bodyguard is eyeballing you for staring. The place in question is the Grand Hotel in Rimini, once..."
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Five Great Places to Stay in Venice for the Carnival
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Anthea Gerrie
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
" No other city does the mardi gras celebration, in Venice known simply as '..."
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Culinary Adventures in the Romance of Italy
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Shelley Seale
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Florence
"Here visitors discover how to prepare the regional cuisine, combined with trips to Chianti, wine tastings, and visits to Florence for boutique shopping and museums. The classes themselves are varied, from traditional pasta and Tuscan..."
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Florence: City Blossoming in Stone
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Daphne Beames
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Florence
" The River Arno rises on the slopes of Monte Falterona in Eastern Tuscany and..."
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Novecento
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Angela Moore
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
"The Novecento is a gem: a proper boutique hotel in Venice, and as such something of a rarity. Hidden on a narrow, canal-bound street off a silent square, it’s just a few minutes bridge-hopping walk away from Piazza San Marco. It has stylish, hand-..."
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