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What would you see if you travelled back in time to Renaissance Verona? Walk the streets of Romeo and Juliet. Discover t...
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Forget the usual tourist trail. Discover the real Milan: mysterious ossuaries, hidden canals, ancient bakeries, and the ...
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Lake Garda is Italy's largest lake and one of the most beautiful landscapes in Europe: Roman ruins, medieval castles, le...
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The crowds have gone home. The summer heat has softened into a golden, gentle warmth. The grapes are heavy on the vine, ...
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Beyond the fashion runways lies a Milan of hidden courtyards, Leonardesque mysteries and canal-side magic. Discover thre...
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For the Milan Expo 2015, Rome-based Nemesi and Partners designed the Palazzo Italia, a 13,000 square metre urban forest ...
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Milan was once crossed by a vast network of canals connecting the city to the Adriatic Sea. Discover the secret history ...
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The magnificent Grand Harbour of Valletta, Malta, with its ancient fortifications and golden limestone city rising from ...
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She was born a Duchess in Bavaria, became the reluctant Empress of Austria, and was assassinated on the shores of Lake G...
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Luxembourg is one of Europe's most extraordinary and most underrated capitals. From the 23-kilometre Bock Casemates and ...
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During excavations for the Crossrail Elizabeth line near Farringdon station, archaeologists discovered approximately 3,0...
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London is one of the most extraordinary cities on Earth, and some of its finest experiences cost absolutely nothing. Fro...
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Born in Puglia and based in Milan, Felice Lo Basso is one of the most passionate and innovative Italian chefs working to...
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From the magnificent Blue Mosque to the Hagia Sophia, from the Topkapi Palace to the Grand Bazaar and the Bosphorus Stra...
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Bavaria is one of Europe's great food regions. From weisswurst and soft pretzels to schweinshaxe, sauerkraut, lebkuchen ...
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From the tang of sauerkraut with fennel to the drama of a Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte layered with kirsch, cream and cher...
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Germany's Rhine region offers some of the most distinctive and deeply satisfying food in the country. From blutwurst and...
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Burgundy is one of the greatest gastronomic regions on Earth. From the slow-cooked depths of boeuf bourguignon to the ga...
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From buttery croissants to runny brie, from steak frites to a perfectly chilled glass of Champagne — the essential gui...
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Florence charges admission for many of its greatest treasures. But the city that gave the world the Renaissance also giv...
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Three hours at Fiumicino is not enough time to visit the Colosseum or the Vatican. But it is more than enough to visit t...
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The Christmas market is one of the great European traditions, and the finest examples transform already beautiful cities...
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Halloween is a European invention, rooted in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, and Europe celebrates it with extra...
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Edinburgh hits you immediately and comprehensively: the castle on its black volcanic rock, the Royal Mile descending bel...
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Dresden was called the Florence of the Elbe, then it was reduced to rubble in four nights of bombing in 1945, and then i...
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Cologne is far more than its famous cathedral. A world-class Chocolate Museum with a three-metre fountain of liquid choc...
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The Blue Grotto is magnificent. But Capri is far more than one cave. The imperial ruins of Villa Jovis on the clifftop, ...
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Bologna is Italy's most underrated city. The finest food in the country, forty kilometres of medieval porticoes, two ext...
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Berlin cannot be summarised. It contains more history per square kilometre than almost any other place on Earth, and it ...
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Belgium is a small country with an outsized claim on the world's culinary imagination. Moules-frites and waterzooi, carb...
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Every February, over 100,000 visitors from across the global technology industry descend on Barcelona for the Mobile Wor...
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Barcelona is an expensive city, but many of its greatest pleasures cost nothing at all. The Gothic Quarter at dawn, the ...
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Austria has 50,000 kilometres of marked hiking trails, one of the finest networks of mountain huts in the world, and alp...
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Athens is where the idea of the West was first most completely articulated, and where it is still most tangibly present....
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Amsterdam rewards the curious traveller at every turn. From the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum to the extraordinary...
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On a narrow canal in the Jordaan neighbourhood of Amsterdam, a house stands that contains one of the most important stor...
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Amsterdam is one of the most rewarding food cities in northern Europe, and Dutch cuisine is far more interesting than it...
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Planning to experience the Venice Carnival? Discover everything you need to know: best time to go, how to get around, wh...
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The Amalfi Coast is not merely beautiful. It is one of those places that reorganises something inside you, permanently. ...
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Just thirty kilometres from Rome lies one of the most extraordinary and least crowded archaeological sites in the world....
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Rome is a generous city. Free churches full of Caravaggios, free viewpoints over the skyline, free drinking fountains on...
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Rome has a thousand extraordinary things to offer, but three of them are not optional. The Colosseum, the Vatican and th...
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November belongs to the Romans. Fewer crowds, lower prices, golden autumn light and the city at its most authentic. Ever...
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Just 80 kilometres from Rome, Viterbo is one of Italy's most underrated autumn destinations. The Monster Park of Bomarzo...
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From the Colosseum to the Vatican, the Spanish Steps to Capitoline Hill — a complete guide to the five experiences tha...
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Beneath the streets of Rome lies a hidden city of the dead — more than 1,000 kilometres of underground galleries where...
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Beneath the marble floors of Saint Peter's Basilica, a stairwell descends 1,600 years into one of the most extraordinary...
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Planning your first visit to Rome? Essential travel tips, must-see landmarks and insider secrets for an unforgettable Ro...
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Samuel Johnson said it in 1776 and it remains true today. Italy — and Naples above all — is the journey that complet...
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From the UNESCO historic centre to Castel dell'Ovo, from the panoramic cliffs of Posillipo to the legendary islands of t...
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A tour or cruise of the Amazon Rainforest is a sublime journey into the heart of the most biodiverse place on the planet...