As a major cradle of Western European figurative art, Italy - particularly its well-oiled travel industry - has come to define itself through its...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Pompeii, the ancient Roman city long buried by Mount Vesuvius' screaming-hot lava, lay dormant - frozen in time -- for visitors to imagine what daily...
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Despite having one of the highest concentrations of Baroque architecture and some of the most dramatic views of sloping fertile plains, Ragusa is...
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Regardless of how many figurative skeletons Italians might keep well stored in their decorative armoires, the country freely displays real human bones...
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We arrived at Genoa's Aeroporto Cristoforo Colombo on a prop plane in a humid drizzle - the port city's gritty romance seeping into our moistened...
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Despite a tumultuous and anguished life, early Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (a.k.a. Caravaggio) revolutionized his art form to...
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Fans of revered Italian architect Andrea Palladio may be so intent on visiting his well-ordered villas across Italy's Veneto region they could easily...
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Just below our balcony at the discreet Art Hotel Orologio in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna's heavily turreted civic heart, voices of varying timbres lulled...
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Forty hairpin bends. The idea nestled in my throat before traveling down to my respiratory tract and settling in my gut. A roller coaster, I realized....
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Mountains are such a common sight throughout Sicily that when my husband Joe and I finally made our way to the flatlands of Marsala, we thought we had...
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