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Exclusive Rome: Discovering The Vatican Necropolis

Kirsten Amor goes where few tourists ever venture for a rare glimpse into The Vatican Necropolis.

Photo of the Moment: A Moment’s Rest, Sicily

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Photo of the Moment: Lone Red Boat, Venice

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Photo of the Moment: Sunset Over Santo Spirito, Florence

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Photo of the Moment: Vernazza from Above, Italy

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High Culture on a Low Budget: Bolzano’s Teatro Stabile & Christkindlmarkt

Christkindlmarkt Time is Here… © dustpuppy The holiday season has hit Europe full swing and there is no better place to start than in the land of eternal Christmas; the Alps. Located in South Tyrol, Bolzano (also going by the name of Bozen) is one of Italy’s best-kept secrets. Akin to walking in a snow [...]

Photo of the Moment: San Marco Deluge, Venice

© jtravism For further information on the secrets of Venice and restaurants in Venice visit http://www.simonseeks.com/travel-guides/europe/italy/veneto/venice.

Venice Hit By Deepest Flooding in 22 Years

Venice is regularly underwater. It floods often – as much as sixty times per year. However, on Monday, December 1st, the city experienced its deepest flooding in 22 years – submerging most streets. Sirens alerted the residents to the coming water. Normally, wooden walkways are raised throughout the city during the frequent floods. This time, [...]

Italy Deploying 3,000 Soldiers to Cities to Fight Crime

© hsivonen Rome is no longer a haven for honeymoons or a fancy place for spies to have sex. Italy is set to deploy 3,000 soldiers in major cities and top immigration detainment centers. In an effort to fight crime, these soldiers will guard presumably important buildings as well as fight everyday crime. Police unions [...]

Postcards from Rome: Rome’s Eighth Hill

Michelangelo designed the dome and the Lantern for St. Peter’s – at the time the tallest dome ever built over the largest church ever built. Tickets for the Lantern are 6 € each, and an elevator takes you to the drum – the first layer where the dome rises out of the basilica. There you [...]

Postcards from Rome: There Are TWO Kinds of Pizza

Pizza-cut-with-scissors and “real” pizza. Pizza-cut-with-scissors – and yes, they do cut it with scissors – is the fast food pizza in Italy. It is pre-made. You tell the guy at the counter how much you want, and it is sold by weight. Once they have cut the right size piece for you, they throw it [...]

Postcards from Rome: Uncorking Rome’s Table Wine

Drink the table wine. It is cheap. It may even be produced by the restaurant itself. Many Roman restaurants are generations-old establishments that have little farms out in the countryside which help to supply the produce for the meals. And of course, they also supply the grapes for the wine and sometimes the olives for [...]

Postcards from Rome: Discovering Rome’s Hidden Gems

Michelangelo’s Sforza Chapel is just one of the hidden gems in Santa Maria Maggiore © Angela Nickerson Simplicity does not exist in Rome. Churches, museums, restaurants – they are layered with the art from generation upon generation. The artists and architects of each era competed to leave their stamp on prominent buildings in the city. [...]

Postcards from Rome: Michelangelo Slept Here. Or Was It Dante?

Michelangelo’s house is gone. The façade of one of the last homes he owned is now preserved as the front of a water storage building on Via Garibaldi. That’s the only existing building that we know he slept in. However, knowledge can be overrated in Rome. Everyone wants to claim that Michelangelo – or Raphael, [...]

Photo of the Moment: Autumn Leaves, Rome

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Website Review: Magica Venezia

The Magica Venezia website belongs to a group who, in their own words: … rent luxury furnished apartments in the centre of Venice, Italy, next to the most important places in the city … starting from 200€ per night (for whole apartment) including breakfast, welcome prosecco cocktail and WiFi internet connection. The idea itself is [...]

Photo of the Moment: View from the Duomo, Italy

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Photo of the Moment: On the Water, Venice

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Italians Battle with Oranges in Centuries Old Food Fight

Locals in the northern Italian town of Ivrea recently took part in a tangy tradition that dates back centuries – they pelted each other with oranges in a mock reenactment of a battle that was fought in the Middle Ages. It’s not an inexpensive tradition. To be sure – every year 500 tons of oranges [...]

Odd Travel Gift: Milan Street Map Fly Swatter

Christmas has officially come and gone, so it appears you’ll need another excuse to buy this odd little fly swatter for your Italy-obsessed friends. This obvious death threat to all things buzzing around us made us smile when we first saw it on the cover of famed Abitare magazine. We were even happier when we [...]

Eighth Wonder of the World: Underground Temples of Damanhur

Buried deep underground in the valley of Valchiusella in the Italian Alps lies a secret so stunning the Italian government has dubbed it the “Eighth wonder of the world.” Unlike the other seven wonders however, this one isn’t centuries old. In fact, until a few years ago, few were even aware of its existence. More [...]

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