Rebuild That Wall: A New Dimension for the “Lecce Experience”
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Rebuild That Wall: A New Dimension for the “Lecce Experience”

For many years, Lecce was the only major tourist destination in the entire mezzogiorno, the bottom of the Italian boot south of Naples. The town likes to style itself as the “Florence of the South” and can bolster this claim with some great architecture from different periods … … but particularly with its richly decorated…

Proust’s Field of Dreams: In Search of Lost Paris Vol. 2
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Proust’s Field of Dreams: In Search of Lost Paris Vol. 2

Having familiarised ourselves with the style and the atmosphere of the bourgeois 8th arrondissement of Paris (the neighbourhood around the Champs Elysees), we are now ready to explore the other quartier that plays a key role in Marcel Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time: the Faubourg St Germain, the part of Paris where, in the…

Panoramaweg of Baden-Baden – Germany’s Most Beautiful Hiking Trail
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Panoramaweg of Baden-Baden – Germany’s Most Beautiful Hiking Trail

The southern German spa town of Baden-Baden has been attracting visitors since the dawn of the tourism age in the 19th century. It is renowned for its beauty … … as well as for its historic sites that include the elegant casino where the Russian writer Dostoevsky conducted intensive research for his novella The Gambler…

La Confluence in Lyon: Where Rivers and Iconic Buildings Meet
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La Confluence in Lyon: Where Rivers and Iconic Buildings Meet

When you visit a city for the first time and are not quite sure what you want to see, it is always a good idea to start with the unusual, the distinctive and – if possible – the unique. Our last post about Lyon, for example, concentrated on the Traboules (underground passages between buildings) and…

The Sacro Monte of Varese –  Disney World of the 16th Century
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The Sacro Monte of Varese – Disney World of the 16th Century

Italy was the birthplace of the tourism industry. For the 500 years since the invention of the “Grand Tour” by English aristocrats, foreign visitors have flocked to Italy in ever-increasing numbers to sing the praises of the country in any language and any medium at hand, from painting and poetry to TV programmes and Instagram….