"Hotels in Venice - at least on St Marks - are amongst the most expensive in Europe. Lagoon and Grand Canal views can cost 800 euros a night and more, but given the scarcity of them, perhaps this is not surprising - there are just 120 hotel rooms for..."
The Best Travel Writing About Italy: Page 6 of 28
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Hotels in Venice
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Jamie Dunford Wood
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Italy
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Veneto Region
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Venice
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Roma - Insights into the Eternal City
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Lucy Hopkins
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Italy
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Lazio
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Rome
"1. Romans will almost always ‘give you the time of day’. However, they will rarely give it to you literally, as they tend not to wear watches. In a small Piazza del Risorgimento café, I counted three watches (one being mine) amongst eleven people...."
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Museo delle Anime dei Defunti (o Purgatorio)
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Lucy Hopkins
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Italy
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Lazio
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Rome
"If I were to think of one European city that embodies, embraces and epitomises ‘life’ more than any other, I would think of Rome. Roman culture emphasises religion, life-giving food, nightlife, social life, family life and simply..."
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Easy Pisa
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Marc Zakian
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Italy
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Tuscany
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Pisa
"My encounter with white Panda man made me realise that Pisa is different. He pulled up to let me cross the road. Surely some mistake. This is Italy, where the pedestrian is one step from eternity and the zebra crossing merely a way to brighten up..."
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Talking Italian
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Daniel Scott
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Italy
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Umbria
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Perugia
"It was on a balmy night during the Italian summer, sitting in a central Perugia night club, that I had the most cause to be thankful that I'd decided to spend time learning the language at the town's university. Nestled opposite me was Enrica, who..."
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The New Urban Inn
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Ken Scrudato
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Italy
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Lombardy
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Milan
"Nearly no one wants to think that share their parents’ taste ('tis pity, those who do). It's a perpetually youthful impulse to want to create a comfortable distance between the cultural and ideological desires of one’s self, and of those who first..."
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Unforgettable Capri
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Lee Marshall
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Italy
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Capri and Ischia
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Capri
"Capri: the Piazzetta, six o’clock on a balmy September evening. Four bars vie for custom on the world’s prettiest square. All the tables are packed, and the cream-jacketed young waiters have no time to snatch admiring glances at..."
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Sicily
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Lucretia Stewart
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Italy
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Sicily
"Sicily's best-known export is the Mafia, which, despite the best efforts of certain brave and incorruptible judges, continues to flourish. Fortunately, though it is impossible to pretend that the Mafia doesn't exist, its activities rarely affect..."
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Hunting the White Truffle
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Maureen Barry
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Italy
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Piedmont
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Turin
"The discerning gourmet knows that white truffles - tartufi bianchi - aren’t really white at all but look as venerably tawny as the crumbling campaniles of the Langhe, the fecund Piedmontese countryside north of Turin, whose medieval capital Alba is..."
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Venosa
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Gregory McNamee
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Italy
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Basilicata
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Venosa
"The province of Basilicata has historically been a poor place, so much so that only a few years ago residents of neighboring lowland Puglia- themselves none too affluent- customarily referred to their country cousins as indiani, “Indians.”..."
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