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2. Tourism in Italy - Wikipedia

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   The Colosseum in Rome, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world The city of Venice, ranked many times as the most beautiful city in the world [1] [2] The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi, which has the largest brick dome in the world, [3] [4] and is considered a masterpiece of world architecture The Sassi di Matera have been described by Fodor ...

3. Transport in Italy - Wikipedia

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   Major works to increase the commercial speed of the trains already started in 1967: the Rome-Florence "super-direct" line was built for trains up to 230 km/h (143 mph), and reduced the journey time to less than two hours. The Florence–Rome high-speed railway was the first high-speed line opened in Europe when more than half of it opened in 1977.

4. Monty Don's Italian Gardens - Wikipedia

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   Villa Gamberaia, Florence: characterized now by its eighteenth-century terraced garden, that Don calls "enormously influential" 2. Italy: Villa I Tatti, Florence: Cecil Pinsent's first Italian Garden, influencing the notion Renaissance gardens were devoid of color except green 2. Italy: La Foce, Val d'Orcia

5. Grand Tour - Wikipedia

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   A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...

6. List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy - Wikipedia

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   Broni, Italy; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Formia, Italy; Giessen, Germany; Highland Park, United States; Kallithea, Greece; Kaufbeuren, Germany; Koper, Slovenia ...

7. List of city nicknames in Italy - Wikipedia

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   Rome: the ethernal city Florence: cradle of Renaissance Venice: the Most Serene Milan: the Fashion capital Naples: city of Parthenope Bologna: the learned. the fat, and the red Pisa: the glorious. Agrigento: la città dei templi (The city of temples) [2] Alatri: la Città dei Ciclopi (the City of Cyclopes) [3] Anagni: la città dei papi (The ...