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Dear friends, the year ends as many things scheduled for 2024 overlap with the last things for 2023. For We the Italians, the year ended with participation in a prestigious conference entitled "Cultura ed identità delle comunità italiane all’estero: tra Turismo delle Radici ed internazionalizzazione del Sistema Paese." The event was organized in be...

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December 16 Lucca, Italy

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Despite its proximity to Florence and Pisa, Lucca is a Tuscan gem that is often skipped over by tourists. And if visited, it’s often only as a day trip. But with so much to offer, I can assure you that it’s worth spending a weekend in this splendid town. Lucca delivers all the charm one expects of a small Tuscan town, while still having a unique id...

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Discover one of the most important cities of art in Italy, which combines the thousand-year history told by its walls with a memorable gastronomy. To the streets where time seems to have stopped and to the hundred churches full of masterpieces, Lucca adds many events, and its people will conquer you. Lucca is one of the most visited cities in Tusca...

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Lucca’s historic city walls form a 3-mile greenway loop that completely encircles the city, and the bike path stretches for the entire loop on top of these walls. You’re not balancing on a narrow wall, as many people first imagine; the walls are 40 feet high but they’re also almost 90 feet across. The path is very wide (wide enough that it was once...

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The Romans are famous for their many amphitheaters. Some of them are well-preserved and continue to be used today while others are national icons (most famously the Colosseum of Rome). As Rome collapsed and with it so too is the security of the empire, some of them were re-purposed as fortified towns while others (such as the one in London) have la...

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Kept in the middle of the wonderful Natural Park of the Apuan Alps, it is among the most beautiful and complete caves in all of Europe: it is the Grotta del Vento, favorite destination for all those who love hiking and diving in nature.  The rocky complex is complete from a morphological and evolutionary point of view and allows visitors to follow...

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The Cave of the Wind, Inside the Apuan Alps Park, surrounded by a pristine environment with great landscape value, there is the Grotta del Vento, one of the most complete among the Italian tourist caves. Its itineraries, in fact, allow you to closely observe the deep galleries, the limestone formations and all the most characteristic details that m...

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As is often the case in the United States, the capital of California is not the largest city, and in this case not even the second largest. Sacramento is home to the California government, and also to a very active center of Italian culture, really very committed to promoting every aspect of our country. So, we welcome our guests in this new interv...

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The bridge at Borgo a Mozzano, called "The Devil's Bridge" or the "Maddalena Bridge" is certainly the most beautiful bridge in the province of Lucca, and one of the most suggestive in Italy. Many legends were born from its myterious construction and its singular design, with one large arch flanked by three smaller ones, inspired the works of many a...

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