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Napule, Napule

09/12/2025 13:29
“Il nome, il simplice nome di Napoli è uno dei più carichi di forza imaginativa che siano al mondo[1]”. From the air, or alternatively from the heights of Castel Sant'Elmo, the view of the gulf's waters confirms Naples' role as a gateway to the Tyrrhenian Sea, always with the unmistakable...

The Tyrrhenian Sea

22/11/2025 12:49
West of the Italian peninsula, off the coasts of Tuscany, those of Lazio, Campania, and Calabria, and enclosed by the large islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily, lies a marine area covering approximately 275,000 square kilometres. This is the Tyrrhenian Sea, an extension of the...

Maillol in Banyuls

28/08/2025 11:50
In 1861 Banyuls de la Marenda, in Roussillon, saw the birth of sculptor Aristide Maillol, one of the most representative of the 20th century, who at the age of twenty moved, like so many others, to Paris. When he returned to his native land, in 1910, he settled on a farm in the Roume Valley, on the...

The Farnese Collection

23/06/2025 14:01
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) preserves and exhibits one of the largest collections of ancient sculpture that was formed during the Renaissance, linked to the family of Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549) who was Pope Paul III and his nephews, the dukes of Parma. The origin of the...

Around the Zuider Zee

02/06/2025 09:47
The Zuider Zee, the South Sea, was a vast, shallow water inlet of the North Sea in the middle of the Netherlands. In 1932 this inland sea was enclosed by a dike of pharaonic dimensions, the Afsluitdijk, since then regulates the marine flow between both sides. Above, a highway runs through almost...

Aphrodite in Milos

26/02/2025 10:25
If there is one thing that made the island of Milos, in the south-west of the Cyclades, famous, it was the discovery of an extraordinary statue that ended up on display in room 346 of the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum in Paris: the Venus de Milo. Venus is the name of the goddess of love in the...

Two Deserted Villages

07/12/2024 10:49
The depopulation of rural areas is usually due to the search of work and better living conditions. It was a constant after the industrial revolution, but in these two cases, Belchite and Jánovas, in Spain, the reasons were completely different but they got common elements: the civil war and human...

A Square in Plaka

27/10/2024 08:17
Filomousou Etaireias is a popular square in the centre of Athens, also known as the Plaka Square, which, despite Lonely Planet's reputation as touristy in the extreme, is a pleasant place with curious details. Plaka neighbourhood extends below Acropolis north-eastern slope around the ancient...

Spanish Armada Castaways

12/10/2024 09:50
Spanish King Philip II said he had sent his ships to fight the British not the elements. And he was right. Just battled against the British a few skirmishes in the English Channel and had a little bit more than words in Gravelines, but nothing serious for the Spanish fleet. The truth is that the...

Edith Piaf's Square

12/08/2024 09:14
Gluges is a tiny town in the north of the Quercy region, today in the Lot department, south-west of France. The twenty or so houses that make up the place are lined up under the protection of a large rocky outcrop where, in the past, some troglodyte dwellings were built. Since 1997, the small...
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