From the balcony of my room in the Hotel Isabella on Taormina's Corso Umberto, where you can buy all the Versace and Dolce & Gabanna that you need to bring home, I could have looked right, to where the sun had risen over the Strait of Messina. Instead I looked left -- first to see where the morning light fell, and then across a few centuries of apartments and churches to the Greco-Roman theater, a reminder of just how new a newcomer to Sicily I was.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa in the Tuscan region of Italy.
Somewhere between Milan and, let's say, Salerno is a vast world of mountains and mists in which we have managed to leave a mere tracery of our passing, roads and railways that hug the deeper valleys, small towns that venture short ways up the slopes. The rest is as ancient as ...
San Gimigiano basket maker
Take boat, not car. There are plenty of water ways, except the only road for automobiles.
It was rainy day, but the clouds also are beautiful
Gifts, decorations for our Christmas Tree! Little nice souvenirs to bring home from the Christams Market in Merano.
The train line that connects all the villages of the Cinque Terre.
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