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Crazy about Ceramics: Deruta

While vibrant Vietri is a fun entry point into the colorful world of Italian ceramics, its knick-knack universe does not always present itself in bella figura – Italian stylishness. To meet the royalty of Italian ceramics we need to move closer to the renaissance...

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To the World’s Most Accessible Glacier

Alaska, Spitsbergen, or Tierra der Fuego come to mind when thinking of glaciers, especially the fancy ‘calving’ ones that end in an ocean or lake with big pieces of ice breaking off and spectacularly splashing into the water. There is a place,...

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Crazy about Ceramics: Vietri Sul Mare

Few landscapes embody the ‘Italian dream’ of pastel colored villages nestled between lush hills and turquoise waters more than the pearls of the Amalfi coast between Positano and Salerno. Yet, as picture book perfect as fabled Positano, Amalfi or Ravello may look and...

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The Patios of Córdoba

The patios of Andalusia are rectangular courtyards which are fully enclosed by a colonnaded portico (porch), i.e. a roofed set of columns which allow people to walk around their open courtyards shielded from sun and rain. Their overall design closely resembles so-called...

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Snowshoe Zen at the Great Saint Bernard Pass

In an earlier story I had been praising the area around the Swiss-Italian Great Saint Bernard Pass as an easily accessible alpine wonderland – between June and October that is, when the pass road is open bringing you conveniently up to some...

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Écija: 100% Andalusia

The road between Córdoba and Sevilla is dominated by the vast Andalusian sky, lined only by barren hills, give or take a few goats and sheep, and occasionally interrupted by seemingly infinite rows of gnarled olive trees and golden expanses of wheat....

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Eat, Love, Pray the Roman Way: Fortuna at Praeneste

Palestrina has definitely seen better times. Today it is – on the surface – a rather nondescript (if not rough) Italian country town of some 20000 inhabitants in the foothills of the Appenin mountain range about 35 km East of Rome. Back...

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A Spiritual Stroll Through Milan

Milan as Italy’s commercial powerhouse, home to its stock exchange and some of the world’s big names in fashion may not sound like the first address in matters of the soul, but scratch a little under the surface and you may discover...

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Day Trip to the Great Saint Bernard Pass

Although the actual Grand Saint-Bernard Pass is a stop-over magnet for travelers between Italy and Switzerland to grab some fresh mountain air and have a peek around the amazing setting or get a cuddle from the gentle giant St. Bernard rescue dogs,...