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Riomaggiore
overlooks a tiny cove, and fishing boats rule the roost, lying along the shore and even in the small square. Lovers' Lane links the village with Manarola, the most picturesque of the five villages.
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On Roman Land
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Italy has many stunning attractions from majestic snow capped mountains, placid lakes, idyllic islands, picturesque beaches, splendid historical cities and quaint walled villages The boot shaped land comprised 18 regions plus the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
Rome has 2000 years o history and religon with over 400 churches and four major basilicas, St Peter’s, St John Lateran, St Mary Major and St Paul’s gracing its present skyline. Rome is also a city of fountains. Immotalised in the film 'Three Coins in a fountain' - the magnificent gardens of villa d'este Tivoli (a short drive east of Rome) built in 1550, contains over 500 indoor and outdoor fountains.
Tivoli is a historic hilltown, situated on the Aniene river to the east of Rome, in the Monti Tiburtini hills. Rome's moneyed classes, built summer retreats in the area
Tivoli's two most famous tourist attractions are the magnificent gardens of the Villa d'Este and the extensive ruins of Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana).
Venice (capital of the Veneto region) is the only city of its kind in the world - built on over 100 islands in a lagoon four kilometers from land and two kilometers from the Adriatic Sea. The entire historic centre, crisscrossed by canals connected by hundreds of bridges, is a treasure of interesting artistic architecture with streets and piazzas that flood with a high tide.
Venice was built around 450 AD on the islands of the lagoon, as a refuge from the barbarian incursions following the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Piazza San Marco is one of the most famous piazzas in the world.
Its history began in the ninth century, it was the seat of the Venetian government and the Doges’ Palace and Basilica of San Marco were built.
A part of the large piazza still floods with the tide today.
Every year in February the farcical eighteenth-century Carnival comes alive in the piazzas and streets of the city. Open-air balls, theater representations and shows of every kind involve all of Venice, which is invaded by thousands of traditional masks. For the occasion, a special propitiatory rite is celebrated: the Venetians construct a dove full of streamers that, attached to a cable, flies through the Piazza San Marco from the Bell Tower to the Clock Tower. On its arrival it breaks open and from the flight of the streamers the Venetians can predict the fortunes of the upcoming year.
The Amalfi Coast lies on the south side of the Sorrento peninsula and is one of the most delightful seaside destinations in Campania. The village of Amalfi is a health and seaside resort laid out at different levels at the top of a cliff Positano is a fishing village, port for Capri and another health and seaside resort on the Amalfi coast
Naples (captial of Campania) is the third most populated city in Italy (after Rome and Milan), The historical centre of Naples ( designated as a World heritage site by UNESCO in1995) is on eof the largest in the world. Man has lived here for 27 centuries leaving villas, tombs and other momuments but none more revered than those of Pompeii. Pompeii, the ancient city buried by Vesuvius's eruption on the morning of August 23, AD 79. Pompeii is now a significant archeological site that provides an amazing glimpse into the daily life of an average Roman town over two thousand years ago.
The islands off Naples are all different from each other. Capri - Italy's most glamorous seaside getaway, is a craggy, whale-shape island tips one of the two points of the crescent formed by the Bay of Naples (Ischia tips the other).The town is a Moorish set of white houses, tiny squares, and narrow medieval alleyways hung with flowers.
Florence (the capital of Tuscany) is a maze of renaissance art, frescoes, open air markets, Bascillicas, palaces, an old oval city wall, cosy Italian eateries and a great place to walk.
The Uffizi Galleries house the world's greatest museum of Renaissance art. while Michelangelo's David, at the Accademia, is one of the most famous sculptures in the world,.
The River Arno,almost divides the city into two equal parts.
Four bridges cross the river, the most elegant being that of S.Trinità.
Mt Etna Sicily
Northwest Italy
