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Although I was based in Milan during my last trip to Italy, I was gallivanting around the country for roughly half of the entire trip. So, although I do know Milan quite a bit better than I did before, I still feel like there are surprises waiting for me around every corner. One of those [...]
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Milan isn’t usually the kind of city people come to spend more than a day or two, usually at one or the other end of a trip and only because they’re flying in and out of Malpensa Airport. Italy’s financial capital isn’t swimming in what most people would consider tourist attractions, but it’s an interesting [...]
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In Florence’s Oltrarno neighborhood, probably the biggest attractions are centered around the Pitti Palace, the former residence of the ruling Medici family. But for something a little less stately (but no less historical), you might want to take a peek into La Specola, the Museum of Zoology & Natural History. It’s right next to the [...]
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Bathed in the history of the Renaissance, Florence might seem like the ideal destination if you’re into the offbeat sights. But every city has oddities, and Florence is no exception. Now, I’m not suggesting that you skip seeing things like the Uffizi Gallery or the Duomo in favor of these “roadside attractions,” but if you’ve [...]
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Italy is intensely Catholic, being the home to the Roman Catholic Church’s headquarters, and statistics show that roughly 90% of the population identifies itself as Roman Catholic. (Of course, the fact that only about one-third of those people regularly attend church is another matter altogether.) The point I’m getting at is that when a small [...]
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Even if you don’t speak Italian, many games transcend language altogether so you don’t need to speak to understand them. Chess is one of those games, and it’s even more universally understood when you combine it with the notion of two men vying for the hand of a lovely young woman! What we’re talking about [...]
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Venice is like an adult theme park, with the possibility for interesting and unique discoveries down every crooked alley and over every tiny bridge. But most tourists will see the same Venice that every other visitor to this canal city has seen for hundreds of years. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with trodding along the same [...]
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Throughout Italy there are fabulous sights which are famous the world over, but not every attraction on your “must-see” list has to be of the caliber of the Sistine Chapel or Michelangelo’s David. For those who would like their Italy vacation photo albums to look a little different than everyone else’s, there’s always Weird and [...]
