Inspiring Travel Writing from Gianni Carta
London-based Gianni Carta is a prolific journalist. He writes a column for Brazilian Vogue, is the European correspondent of CartaCapital, a Brazilian business fortnightly, and also finds time to write freelance features for South African GQ, Spanish Maxim, the BBC World Service and Radio France International. He has worked as a correspondent in New York and Paris and has covered political events in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990.
Articles by Gianni Carta
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Serenades Capital
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Brazil
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Rio and the Southeast
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Rio de Janeiro
Conservatoria, a town 120kms from Rio de Janeiro, lives thanks to the serenade: music sung or played in the open air at night to a beloved woman. Tourists come here from all over the world to sing with Jose Borges, probably the best seresteiro alive...
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Sunset Boulevard at 7pm
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United States
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California
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Los Angeles
California, Los Angeles: Drive down Sunset Boulevard at about 7pm. Jim Morrison was right: you have to see that 'bloody red sun of fantastic LA.' The best way to have this experience is to rent a car (can’t survive without one in LA, man),...
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Red Square
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Russia
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Central Russia
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Moscow
Russia, Moscow: Stand in Red Square. It might not be the centre of the world, as the poet Mayakovsy used to say, but whenever I go to Red Square I realize that history is still in the making here. Since the square came into existence, at the end of...
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Taormina
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Italy
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Sicily
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Taormina
Italy: Stroll along Corso Umberto I, the thoroughfare in Taormina, Sicily, that starts at Porta Messina and climbs up gently to Porta Catania: besides the fun of studying the different faces in the crowd, there are the tempting tables of restaurants...
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The Riviera
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France
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Riviera Cote d'Azur
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Nice
France: Visit Nice. Considered the capital of the Riviera, Nice is not only the ideal base from which to explore nearby posher places such as Cap d’Antibes, it is the perfect city to enjoy the real French middle-class beach life. There’s nothing to...
Reviews by Gianni Carta
Anse Chastanet | Gianni CartaA beat-up VW van is definitely not the appropriate vehicle to take guests from the airport to Anse Chastanet on St. Lucia's west coast. After one hour enduring the hot and humid air and the dilapidated road we arrive in Soufriere, the oldest village...