VENICE DURING THE BIENNALE
Categories: Italy, Venice and Veneto
We revisited Venice a few weeks ago for the first time since COVID shut down the world for travellers. Venice has been one of our top favourite cities for many decades, and this was to be our 4th Biennale, so we were interested to see what chan…
Spectacular Capri – Southern Italy’s Isola Bella
Categories: Italy, West Coast
Lying at the southern edge of the Bay of Naples, beyond the Sorrentine peninsula, the rocky island of Capri has been renowned as a holiday destination for about two thousand years. It’s an island of myths, Roman emperors and their infamous orgi…
BELLA BELLAGIO, THE JEWEL OF LAKE COMO
Categories: Lakes District, Italy
Northern Italy offers a wonderful series of lakes, and Lake Como is generally regarded as the most spectacular of them all. Its unmistakable upturned Y shape was carved out of a glacier that was forced to split into two by the mountain that sto…
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA—AT THE ROMAN ARENA, VERONA
This year was the 96th season of opera to be held in the spectacular Roman Arena at Verona. A little older than Rome’s Coliseum, it was built around 30AD during the reign of the Emperor Caligula, and was said to be capable of holding more than…
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