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Aventine Hill Tours
Aventine Hill Tours Aventine Hill is one of Rome’s famous seven hills. It’s the southernmost hill, located on the eastern bank of the Tiber River. This hill is important in the myths involved with the founding of Rome. The brothers, Romulus and Remus, each chose one of the area’s hills on which to
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Madonna dell’Orto Church
Madonna dell’Orto Church The Church of the Madonna dell’Orto is a small church in Venice, built in the 14th century by a religious order that no longer exists. Roughly 100 years after it was built, it was taken over by a different congregation. After another 200 years, the church was again taken o
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Campo de Fiori Tours
Campo de Fiori Tours Whereas most of us know the term “piazza” roughly equates to a public square, we may not immediately think the same thing when we see “campo” - especially if we know that means “field” in Italian. But Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori - literally, “field of flowers” - is a square in the
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Livorno Cruise Port
Livorno Cruise Port Livorno is the ugly sister of the beautiful Tuscan city of Florence. Many tour itineraries will actually list Florence as the port of call because Livorno itself is a busy, modern container terminal with little to recommend it aside from its location. Within relatively easy rea
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Ancient Ostia Tours
Ancient Ostia Tours Ostia was the port city of ancient Rome. Once a thriving city of around 60,000 people, today it gives an excellent look into ancient lives with docks, warehouses, apartments and mansions, shops, baths and temples. Founded around 600 BC as a source for salt to preserve meats, it
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Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio (Sant’Ambrogio Market)
Mercato di Sant’Ambrogio (Sant’Ambrogio Market) Florences most famous and popular market is the aptly named Mercato Centrale – but its by no means the only market in the city. Another ideal spot to pick up picnic supplies, see whats fresh before you browse local menus or simply enjoy the colors of
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Roman Catacombs Tours
Roman Catacombs Tours Catacombs are ancient underground cemeteries; the catacombs here in Rome were mainly used by Christians (and occasionally Jews) from the 2nd to the 5th centuries AD. At the time underground burial was popular due to the high price of land, and for the sense of community it ga
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Parco degli Acquedotti Tours
Parco degli Acquedotti Tours The Parco degli Acquedotti is one of Rome’s green spaces, and also one with major Ancient Roman structures in it. As the name tells you, a visit to the Parco degli Acquedotti means you get to see a Roman aqueduct - but in this park, you can actually see two.Located jus
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Central Market (Mercato Centrale)
Central Market (Mercato Centrale) Designed by the renowned architect Giovanni Mengoni in the late 19th century, Florence’s Mercato Centrale is a cavernous, two-storey market hall that’sl full of Tuscan foods. The biggest market in the city, on the outside it’s all iron and lots of glass. Enter on
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Dolomites
Dolomites Its official: the Dolomite mountains in northeastern Italy are one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world: in 2009 UNESCO added them to the list of Natural World Heritage Sites. 200 million years old, these craggy, colorful, majestic peaks rise to 10,000 ft (3,000 metres) in heigh
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San Miniato al Monte
San Miniato al Monte There are so many churches worth visiting right in the streets of central Florence that you might think it’s no big deal to skip San Miniato al Monte, sitting as it does high above the city in the hills. But couple the fact that it’s an incredibly beautiful church with the fac
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Protestant Cemetery Tours
Protestant Cemetery Tours Rome may be home to the Vatican, but not everyone who lives - or dies - there is Catholic. In fact, with the many English travelers coming through Rome on the Grand Tour, followed by the many writers and artists who moved to Rome over the years, a cemetery for non-Catholi
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Testaccio Tours
Testaccio Tours The Testaccio neighborhood is one of the old districts of Rome. It sits along the eastern bank of the Tiber River to the south of the city center, and in Ancient Roman times it was the equivalent of the city’s shipyards.Many goods were brought into the city via the river, and were
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Brera
Brera In a city of many trendy neighborhoods, the Brera district in Milan is one of the most charming. Located very close to the Duomo in the historic center, this is the part of Milan that might make you forget about the city’s hustle-bustle reputation.The Brera neighborhood is a maze of narrow,
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Piazza Venezia Tours
Piazza Venezia Tours The Piazza Venezia defies many assumptions one might make from the name. It’s an open space, so it can be called a piazza, but it’s really a gigantic intersection and not a public square. And it’s in central Rome, not Venice. The name comes from the nearby Palazzo Venezia, in
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Ancient Rome Tours
Ancient Rome Tours The heart of Roman civilization, which once included some 80 million inhabitants, has now been reduced to a series of important ruins in the center of the city of Rome. It is believed that Rome itself was founded in 753 B.C. by brothers Romulus and Remus, decedents of a Trojan p
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Church of Santa Maria del Popolo Tours
Church of Santa Maria del Popolo Tours One of three churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary that face the large Piazza del Popolo in northern Rome is the church that bears the same name as the piazza - Santa Maria del Popolo. Of the three, this is by far the most popular tourist draw, primarily for
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Corniglia
Corniglia Historic vineyards and epic views set the 100-meter-high village of Corniglia apart from other towns in the Cinque Terre. Unlike Vernazza, Riomaggiore, Monterosso al Mare and Manarola, Corniglia’s borders don’t actually touch the sea. Instead, travelers must climb a steep set of brick st
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Piazza del Popolo Tours
Piazza del Popolo Tours The Piazza del Popolo is one of Rome’s many large public squares. This piazza is in the northern part of central Rome. The architect of the present-day piazza, built in the early 19th century, removed some existing structures to alter the shape from a trapezoid to a larger
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Vernazza
Vernazza Just north of Montrerosso al Mare is the idyllic fishing town of Vernazza. This quiet respite tucked into the Italian hillside has absolutely no cars and is best known for its maritime roots, as well as for producing the indigenous wine. It is the only official harbor in all of Cinque Ter
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