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Venice Carnival 2011 Highlights
The present edition of Carnival in Venice will be themed ‘Ottocento’ – 19th century dresses, top hats, corsets and crinolines. The Carnival is dedicated to the tremendous spirit of Venetian and Italian women, who inspired the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1866.
Wine from Cinque Terre
The tourists who happen to visit Cinque Terre are amazed by unique landscape in the world. Tiny, colorful houses atop of cliff hills, and the slopes covered by infinite lines of stone terraces. The trees of forests, that once covered the hills were gradually taken away one by one by the workful hands,which build stone [...]
Venice Carnival 2010 Highlights
The new Carnival 2011 schedule < -please click here This year’s Carnival in Venice is going to be officially started in he evening of Saturday, February 6, 2010 with the performance Arlecchino, Servant of Two Masters, played by Ferruccio Soleri. There will be ten days of theatre performances, exhibitions, lights, fireworks, and thousands of masks [...]
Italian Restaurants
There are three types of Italian restaurants: ristorante – the most expensive one, with white table clothes, a wine list and more formal clothes trattoria – usually small place run by the family,more casual, cheaper but still good meals with paper table clothes and the wine sold by the decanter
Cristo degli Abissi
Somewhere deep in the waters of Riviera di Levante near Portofino rests an extraordinary bronze sculpture ‘Il Cristo degli Abissi’. The 2,5 m high sculpture of Christ with head and hands rising in the pose offering peace protects people of the sea: sailors, fishermen and divers. It has been placed near the spot where in [...]
