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Nei primi quattro mesi del 2018 gli arrivi turistici internazionali sono cresciuti del 6% rispetto allo stesso periodo dell'anno scorso. A inizio anno le previsioni dell'Unwto oscillavano infatti tra il 4 e il 5% ma oggi sono state superate, a conferma di un trend in crescita dal 2017. E ci sono ottime notizie anche per l'Italia nello specifico: il...

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In central Italy’s Umbria region, the small village of Castelluccio sits atop a hill overlooking a broad, flat basin surrounded by the Sibillini Mountains. In October 2016, a significant earthquake struck the area, badly damaging the village and roads—but farming still takes place in the Piano Grande below, where fields of lentils and poppies bloom...

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On a balmy summer evening in the late 1990s, Daniel Elow Kilhgren, a young philosophy graduate of Italian-Swedish descent, took a trip on his motorcycle among the mountains and valleys of the Gran Sasso-Monti della Laga National Park in the heart of Abruzzo. He suddenly came upon the little village of S. Stefano in Sessanio and the discovery change...

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Campania’s birth and growth can be traced to the merger of two of the greatest civilizations in world history—the Greeks and Romans. The Greeks initially occupied the region as early as the 7thcentury B.C., at which point it became part of Magna Graecia. Several hundred years later the Romans arrived, and the region assimilated into a Greco-Roman c...

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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me,” Federico Fellini once said. The Academy Award-winning director of La Dolce Vita(1960) and Amarcord(1973) devoted a great deal of his art to reviving memories from his childhood, which was spent in Rimini, an old Roman town in the southeastern part of Emilia-Romagna (th...

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According to the statistics, 2018 will be one of the most successful for Italy when it comes to the overall number of tourists. Indeed, many tour operators who are leaders in the tourism market have indicated a higher percentage of European and overseas visitor arrivals (especially from the United States). Data show even a 74 percent growth compare...

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Il 5 maggio era stato inaugurato il nuovo volo diretto Venezia-Chicago di American Airlines mentre il 26 dello stesso mese è stata la volta della mostra Dimensions of Citizenship, curata dalla School of the Art Institute of Chicago e University of Chicago. La coincidenza è stata subito colta dall’ufficio del turismo di Chicago, da American Airlines...

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With 54 spots on the Unesco World Heritage list, Italy is the most Unesco-rich country in the world. But how many of Italy's Unesco sites have you heard of? This weekend the not-so-well-known industrial city of Ivrea became the latest of Italy's cultural treasures to gain world heritage status. While the historic centres of Rome, Florence and Pompe...

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Construction of a hydroelectric dam to exploit the river Gleno in the the Valle di Scalve (Scalve valley) began in 1916, but the project was immediately cursed by poor materials and poor workmanship. On top of that, due to funding problems, the plan changed from the original idea of a gravity dam to a multiple-arch dam while the work was still in p...

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A new digital mapping project by the regional government in Emilia-Romagna aims to help tourists and holiday makers explore the diverse region in north-east Italy. It's the home of luxury cars such as Ferrari, Ducati, Maserati and Lamborghini and hosts some of Europe's most popular beaches, such as Rimini and Riccione.  It's also the birthplace of...

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