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When we're talking about Italian food, it's impossible to pick just one favorite dish or ingredient. There are 20 regions in Italy, and each one is famous for its specific regional dishes. One of those regions is Veneto, located in the northeastern corner of this boot-shaped country (per Italy Heaven).  When in Veneto, most people will visit the re...

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Relax and let your worries be replaced by stunning aerial nature views from some of Dolomites’s most beautiful and iconic landscape locations, paired with a brand new calming music masterpiece. This video can be used to relax, sleep, meditate, do yoga, study, work, read, and more. The Dolomites are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. Th...

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On Aug. 4, the Viking Sea, a 930-passenger cruise ship, docked in Italy’s Venetian Lagoon. At first sight, the scene looked familiar: a towering white vessel, loaded with tourists, most of them from North America, making its way past centuries-old buildings and narrow canals. But this time the destination wasn’t Venice, but Chioggia, a smaller, les...

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Verona attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world every year because of the romantic story of Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare, but also because of the city's great artistic and cultural offer. Together with Venice, it is one of the most visited cities in Veneto. There are many activities to do. Among ancient palaces, theatre and...

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September is a perfect month to go on holiday in Italy. Temperatures are still mild but more pleasant than in July and August. The beaches and art cities empty out, without the large crowds of tourists. Prices for flights and accommodation are much lower than in the other summer months.  But where to go in Italy in September? The temperatures are s...

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Cinema’s biggest stars just seem to shine a bit brighter at the Venice International Film Festival, which begins this week in the Northern Italian city. Think of Lady Gaga, a woman who has never shied away from a grand entrance, somehow topping even herself delicately perched over the edge of a moving water taxi and vamping for the cameras like a c...

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Venice is a fascinating city with an equally fascinating history. In these historical fiction books that take place in Venice, you’ll learn about Venice’s history from convents to courtesans and the city’s historic workshops and traditional arts. These are my favorite novels about Venice.  Two of the things for which Venice is famous are gondolas a...

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To combat pollution, one of many sustainability issues Venice has to face when dealing with tourism, the city is encouraging tourists to drink from water fountains instead of using plastic bottles. While not many visitors may be aware, the city’s tap water is perfectly safe to drink. It is estimated that tourism is responsible for 28% to 40% of was...

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Summer weekends in Venice are best spent away from the main island. This is something adopted locals come to learn rather quickly, but that born-and-raised Venetians simply know, having absorbed earlier on all there is to know about life as it’s meant to be lived in the uniquely strange part of Italy that is the Venetian lagoon.  Save for a handful...

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It is the longest river in Italy and it gives the name to one of its richest areas, the Pianura Padana,  but the Po, especially for the people who live along its banks, from Piemonte to Emilia Romagna, it’s much more than that. It’s livelihood and fertility; it’s wealth and happiness; it’s history and family. It’s memories and future at once. It is...

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