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Italy has so many faces that a lifetime isn’t enough to see them all. Rome, Florence, and Venice are just the beginning; just around the corner lie Umbria, Puglia, Calabria, and Sardinia places that guidebooks from bookstores barely mention. What to see in Italy depends on what you’re looking for.
In this section, you’ll find guides to Italian cities and regions. What to see, where to eat great food without paying tourist prices, how to get around by train, and why Italy deserves more than just a quick stopover. Sicily has its own sub-section. It’s big enough to warrant one.
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Choose a city or region and start reading. Italy awaits and always has something to offer.
It was March 2022 and my colleagues and I were planning our annual nomad trip. The choice fell on Sicily. We booked flights from Vienna to Catania and believed it would be ‘a nice trip to Italy’. Except Sicily isn’t Italy. Or rather – it’s more than Italy. This article...
Catania waited a long time for tourists. Palermo was always the first choice, Taormina the postcard star. But Catania – Sicily’s second-largest city – is slowly making its case as perhaps the most honest of the three. On every visit we flew into Catania and took our trips from there....
There are places in Sicily where you will understand why people come back. Zingaro Nature Reserve is one of them. But to understand why this place is so important, we need to go back a few decades. The whole story began in the 1980s, when a road was being built...
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We came to Katowice mainly as a transfer stop on the way somewhere else. But the city centre personally stopped me in my tracks – in a good way. I expected a grey industrial city and got a lively centre that breathes at first glance, and when I saw old...
