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  2. List of pastoral visits of Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia

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    Nations visited by Pope John Paul II During his reign, Pope John Paul II ("The Pilgrim Pope") made 146 pastoral visits within Italy and 104 foreign trips, more than all previous popes combined. In total he logged more than 1,167,000 km (725,000 mi). He consistently attracted large crowds on his travels, some among largest ever assembled. While some of his trips (such as to the United States ...

  3. Villa Palmieri, Fiesole - Wikipedia

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    Villa Palmieri on a postcard from 1896. Alexandre Dumas, père, Impressions de voyage - La villa Palmieri, 1899. The villa was certainly in existence at the end of the 14th century, when it was a possession of the Fini, who sold it in 1454 to the noted humanist scholar Matteo di Marco Palmieri, whose name it still bears.

  4. Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo - Wikipedia

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    Villa Medicea di Careggi, the first of the Florentine villas, was also created for Cosimo de' Medici by Michelozzo from an existing castle.. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Tuscan aristocracy, who had forsaken their medieval castles for the political expediency, comfort and greater security of town life, developed an aesthetic awareness which necessitated the seasonal occupation of a ...

  5. Tourism in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Italy is the country with the highest concentration in the world of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. [262] [19] As of 2021, Italy has a total of 58 inscribed sites, making it the country with the most World Heritage Sites just above China (56). [262] [19] Out of Italy's 58 heritage sites, 53 are cultural and 5 are natural.

  6. Villa Salviatino, Maiano - Wikipedia

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    Villa Salviatino Villa Salviatino. The Villa Salviatino, Maiano, in the frazione of Maiano on the steep slope south of Fiesole, is a Tuscan villa overlooking Florence.. A modest farmhouse in the 14th century, set among informally terraced slopes planted with vines and olives, the house in its vigna was purchased in 1427 by the Bardi family, bankers of Florence, who rebuilt it in such palatial ...

  7. Ponte Vecchio - Wikipedia

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    The Ponte Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo]; [1] "Old Bridge") [2] is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy.The only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during World War II, it is noted for the shops built along it; building shops on such bridges was once a common practice.

  8. Ferragosto - Wikipedia

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    The popular tradition of taking a trip during Ferragosto arose under the Fascist regime.In the second half of the 1920s, during the mid-August period, the regime organised hundreds of popular trips through the fascist leisure and recreational organisations of various corporations, and via the setting up of the "People's Trains of Ferragosto", which were available at discounted prices.

  9. Monty Don's Italian Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Italy: an example of "urban farming" in Naples: 3. Italy: Garden of Ninfa, Cisterna di Latina: called "the most romantic garden in the world" 4. Italy: Orto botanico di Padova, Padua: One of the world's oldest academic botanical gardens 4. Italy: Villa Pisani, Stra: Monte gets lost in the maze of "the Queen" of the world famous venetian gardens ...

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