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Five Italian Villages You Can Only Reach on Foot

by Silvia Donati | Wed, 01/12/2022 - 11:44

Italy’s borghi preserve that fascination of places stuck in time where life goes on as if in a different era. This rings even truer in those villages you can…

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12 New Locations Added to 'Italy’s Most Beautiful Villages' Network

by Silvia Donati | Wed, 11/24/2021 - 03:32

Get ready to discover more of Italy’s charming historic villages. The association ‘I Borghi più belli d’Italia,’ which, as the name implies, includes Italy’s…

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Five Italian Ghost Towns to Visit this November

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 11/04/2021 - 04:33

November in Italy begins with the religious festivities dedicated to Saints and the Dead; the days get shorter, the temperatures colder and the fog often…

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The Villa Barbaro, designed byarchitect Andrea Palladio

Asolo and the Villa di Maser

by Myra Robinson | Thu, 10/21/2021 - 00:08

If you think that the Veneto extends for miles along a featureless plain, think again. The town of Asolo is perfectly situated among the cypresses in the…

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Italian Wine Villages to Visit in the Fall

by Silvia Donati | Wed, 09/22/2021 - 05:38

Fall in Italy is synonymous with vendemmia (grape harvest), so this makes it a perfect time to visit small towns and villages immersed among rolling hills and…

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Aerial view of the ancient town on Monterano

Italy’s Most Beautiful Ghost Towns

by Anna Lebedeva | Mon, 05/31/2021 - 06:44

Italy is filled with abandoned towns and villages. It is estimated that there are over 2,000 of them in the country, gradually crumbling and being swallowed by…

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Civita di Bagnoregio Vies for Unesco Status

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 04/15/2021 - 04:41

Classified as one of Italy’s most beautiful historic villages, Civita di Bagnoregio will be vying for Unesco World Heritage status. The proposal came…

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Tropea Named Top Italian ‘Borgo’ for 2021

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 04/08/2021 - 00:00

Tropea, the seaside village on the east coast of Calabria in southern Italy famous for its spectacular cliff-side position and beautiful transparent sea, has…

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Summer landscape along the road from Norma to Sermoneta

Italy’s Villages: The Walled Hill Town of Sermoneta

by Silvia Donati | Fri, 03/12/2021 - 03:39

Less than two hours from Rome is one of Lazio’s most beautiful villages, which looks like it’s suspended in time: Sermoneta. It is a walled hill town,…

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Abbey of San Michele Arcangelo Passignano

Three Day Trips from Florence That Are Little-Known

by Silvia Donati | Thu, 02/25/2021 - 07:45

It would be a shame to not explore the quaint beauty that surrounds Florence. There are many villages and hamlets set in the beautiful Tuscan landscape that…