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Picture this: You’re driving in an Italian sports car from Milan on your way to dinner in a historic village about an hour east of the city. You pass through vineyards and catch sight of a 14th century castle, its stone walls highlighted in the late-day sun. Soon, you arrive at your destination for a meal of pasta, grilled meats (or veggies), and s...

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Three sisters in the Giacomini family are proudly at the helm of the Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, on a lush stretch of land on the California coast overlooking Tomales Bay, a beautiful inlet from the Pacific Ocean. “100% women-owned. We are dairy farmers and artisans, delivering happiness through cheese,” proclaims the bio on their Instagr...

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The village of Crespi d'Adda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995, is an important example of industrial archaeology. It is a real village with its factories, houses, schools and churches; an expression of the enlightened philosophy of European and American industrialists of the early 20th century towards their workers. Crespi d'Adda is located...

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Let’s have an aperitivo on the water, and then come back for dinner” suggests the frontispiece of a menu at a restaurant overlooking Lake Como’s sparkling shores. This just so happens to be the perfect way to spend an October weekend, but what is it about this particular Northern Italian lake? Foreigners have been drawn to Lake Como due, in part, t...

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In Val Camonica, you discover that art was born first. Since the beginning, this was an urgent need also for magical, religious and superstition reasons. If you visit these places, you are catapulted into a very ancient age, dating back to even before any complex civilization. Before the Greeks and Romans, before any ancient emperor, before Plato,...

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A new walking itinerary has been inaugurated on Lake Garda: the Cammino del Bardolino (Bardolino Way), 100 kilometers to be covered on foot or by bike exploring the backcountry, away from the crowded lakefront, amid small churches, remote hermitages, hilltop villages and vineyards, with stops along the way to taste the local wine. Sounds good to us...

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Bitto DOP cheese is produced in the Alps of Northern Lombardy for over a millennium. In the early 2010s, a battle arose between the staunch traditionalists and those who advocate for the most industrial versions of the DOP product. Until the agreement was signed at the end of 2014. But that may not hold up ... Can cheese really trigger what has bee...

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In Gardone Riviera, on the Brescia side of Lake Garda, stands the Vittoriale degli Italiani. A complex of buildings, parks, squares and museums built by the poet and writer Gabriele D'Annunzio to celebrate the exploits of the Italians during the First World War. Unusual environments and particular structures characterise the nine hectares of the Vi...

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On February 25th, the winners of the cultural contest have been announced. Let’s have a look at the podium of the Luoghi Del Cuore 2021 ( Places in the Heart 2021 ). The Bronze Medal: Brescia’s Castle. With a total of 43.469 votes, this Medieval fortress and castle gained the third place. It’s in the northern region of Veneto, not too far from Mila...

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Life becomes a time warp in Cornello dei Tasso, a golden stone medieval hamlet of unusual beauty perched on a cliff in the Brembana Valley at 800 m above sea level. Only eight kilometers north of San Pellegrino Terme and thirty kilometers from the city of Bergamo, it portrays Italy how it used to be.  Cornello dei Tasso seems to have stood still, u...

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