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This is a bonus article to complement our special report on the Cinque Terre: The Cinque Terre National Park, established in 1999, charges a fee for the usage of path #2 Riomaggiore-Monterosso. The objective is to collect funds necessary for the maintenance of the paths. This summer, the park will be introducing two new types of cards to replace …
This is an excerpt from the February 2014 issue of Dream of Italy: New Modern Museum: Florence, home to more than 80 museums, is gaining another one at the end of April. Museo del Novecento (Museum of the 20th Century) will open in a former Leopoldine convent in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. The city’s 2,300 works of contemporary art, which …
If you’re visiting the Vatican in the near future, you might want to plan on spending some time visiting the latest treasure now open to the public. The Roman Necropolis of the Via Triumphalis (pictured) opened to the public yesterday. Read more over at Italy Travel. Also new in Rome, archaeologists believe they have uncovered the city’s oldest temple near the Church of …
A new science museum, designed by celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano has opened in Trento, in the Dolomite Mountains. With its jagged edges, MUSE mimics the surrounding mountainous landscape. Inside is a museum that digs deep into the history of the local area. According to a local travel site, “This is a sensory journey through science and nature, with a full …
Venice’s Gritti Palace hotel will re-open in February 2013 following a 15-month renovation. (Unfortunately, it will not be in open in time for Carnevale which is at the end of January this year.) The palace which was originally built in 1475 as a private residence is part of Starwood’s Luxury Collection. All of the hotel’s 61 rooms and 21 suites …
Little is known about the Estruscans, the people who dominated a large swath of Italy for centuries before eventually being absorbed by the Roman Empire. They left no written works that might have chronicled their culture and their doings, and, until recently at least, scant artifactual evidence surface. Earlier this month, a group of U.S. and Italian archeologists announced that …
If you’re visiting Florence in September or during the fall of 2012, you will have the chance to be among the first in three decades to lay eyes on the original 15th-century gilded bronze door by Lorenzo Ghiberti which Michelangelo called “The Door of Paradise.” This medieval masterpiece weighs eight tons and had been part of the baptistery of Florence’s Duomo …
You’ve probably seen the red hop-on, hop-off buses in Rome and other cities (there’s even now a hop-on, hop-off bus along the Amalfi Coast)…Perhaps it was only a matter of time before a hop-on, hop-off tourist boat came to the waterways of Venice. Earlier this month a hop-on, hop-off vaporetto service began on Venice’s Grand Canal. Vaporetto dell’Arte runs daily from 9 a.m. …
