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By Kathy Salvati Italy has been named the world's best travel destination for the fifth year in a row by readers of CN Traveler magazine. The Mediterranean country draws in visitors from all over the world looking to experience the culture, sunshine, great food and the history of this magnificent country.   Home to some of the world's...

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Il riconoscimento di 9 monumenti di Palermo, Cefalù e Monreale come Patrimonio dell'Umanità da parte dell'Unesco e l'attrattiva turistica della Sicilia sono stati al centro di una serie di appuntamenti negli Stati Uniti cui hanno preso parte tra gli altri il sindaco Leoluca Orlando, il presidente di Gesap, Fabio Giambrone e l'As...

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What traveler hasn't daydreamed of selling one's possessions and returning to live in the foreign country where one feels alive and full of joy? But how many people actually do it?   Salt Lake City native Lisa Condie did and is creating a new life in Florence, Italy, where she and another Salt Lake City native are building a tour compan...

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by Peter Jon Lindberg It's all here, looking entirely as it should, as it always has. The cove-hidden beaches reached only by boat. The terraced lemon and olive groves on near-vertical hillsides.   The glittering cliff-top resorts, the pier-side tavernas, and the Cubist-painting townscapes—Ravello, Amalfi, Praiano, Positano, Nerano—overlook...

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Before coming to Alabaster about five months ago, Alice Zanotti had never experienced softball, attended a Thanksgiving feast or fought Black Friday shopping crowds.   Today, she has a much better grasp of American culture, as Alabaster's Morris family has hosted the 17-year-old high school student through an exchange student program.  ...

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From the North to the South, Italy boasts many lesser-known yet wonderful small towns where you can breathe a fairy tale atmosphere and enjoy breathtaking landscapes.   Let Swide lead into a unique journey through the most beautiful little towns you can find in Italy. Looking for a not so crowded yet beautiful place in Italy to spend a relax...

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Catching a train in Italy is a complex subject worthy of an Open University course, which is why I'm sharing my knowledge with keen rail travellers who might find Italian train travel utterly bewildering.   For instance, it can never have occurred to those who devise station announcements that passengers always need to know, first and foremo...

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Tripadvisor has compiled the new ranking of the top ten Italian beaches based on votes and comments of millions of users, collected during 2015. In the "Traveller's Choice 2016" the beautiful 'beach of Rabbits', in Lampedusa, is no longer in the first place and slips in the fourth position. Cala Mariolu Baunei is the winner. Sardinia is still the u...

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At the start of the Italian film director Edoardo Winspeare's ''Quiet Bliss,'' a world-weary woman moves her family to live in an olive grove. Italy's enduring recession has brought the family to its knees and, forced to close their textile factory, they've come to work the land.   Here — amid the cream of stone, the green of olive, the blue...

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Italy is one of the most beautiful, historical, delicious countries in the world. From ancient ruins in Rome to couture boutiques in Milan to cobblestone streets in Florence, everyone will find something in Italy to fall in love with.   But culture shock is a thing, and it definitely happens in Italy. There are lots of things that Americans...

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