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Urbino: A Warlord, a Pope, a Painter and the Queen of Reclining Nudes
The Marche region may lie in the centre of Italy but if you can imagine a Tourist’s View Of The Country – in the style of Saul Steinberg’s famous View Of the World From Midtown Manhattanposter where every town, state and country beyond the Hudson River disappears in a blur of vague uncertainty – it…
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Ancona – The Heart of Adriatic Italy
As we demonstrated in last week’s post, there are more reasons to travel to Italy’s Marche region than a visit of Parasol Paradise. Reasons of travel logistics, for example. Marche sits pretty much in the centre of the Adriatic coast, and the airport of Ancona, the region’s heart and capital, is – while small and…
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Iconic Italy on the Marche Coast
You want to break new ground: to find and explore a piece of unknown Italy? You are looking for a place with hotels, restaurants, railway connections and all the other mod cons (after all, you are a 21st century guy/gal who is not searching to “explore” anything on the back of a donkey, compass in…
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A Place To Visit Before You Die – The Plitvice Lakes
I am not a great fan of books that list 100 Places To Visit Before You Die or some such. The whole concept is built on the false assumption that the urge to travel is driven by the same needs and motives in all of us. If you don’t believe me, just visit any holiday…
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Baha’i Terraces of Haifa: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World
Israel is a small country, smaller than the state of New Jersey and roughly half the size of the Netherlands. Due to its long and narrow shape, however, the distances from one place to another can be surprisingly long. There is, for example, room enough in Israel for a 1-hour domestic flight from Tel Aviv…
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Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…
