Italy’s best beaches 2018

It is needless to say how important Tripadvisor and similar apps have become lately when planning our travels. Tripadvisor every year classifies the world’s best places, hotels, restarurants, sights, beaches. Travelers’ Choice awards are the highest honor TripAdvisor can bestow. Based on millions of reviews and opinions from travelers around the world, these annual awards reflect…

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The Piaggio story: everyone loves Vespa

The world famous scooter , Vespa is so much part of Italian national image that no stock photo or postcard can be found without at least one of them parking/circulating/taking on board a complete family. Everyone loves vespa. But how was this epic vehicle born?   The company producing Vespa, Piaggio was founded back in…

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Heaven made of pesto

If you should describe Liguria, this tight region between the Maritime Alps and the Ligurian sea with only one word, it would definetely be Genova’s basil, and the pesto made of it. This fragnats plant grows everywhere in the region and you can find it in gardens, window sills and balconies. Local urban legends say…

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Italy, the streetfood heaven

Streetfood is unbelievably trendy nowadays and lucliky it does not only mean pizza slices and boring sandwiches. It has a variety in Italy that we can only envy.  Meals vary obviously according to the region you happen to be in. Below we have gathered the most important excelencies of Italian “cucina povera” ( poor men’s…

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Bored of pizza? Have a farinata!

When talking about Italian cuisine, the  first thing coming to your mind is normally pizza or pasta, but keep calm, Italian culinary culture is way more various, even the so-called “cucina povera” (poor cuisine) has its fantastic surprises. Just like the farinata. This is a super cheap and super delicious street food, you can have…

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Take a deep breath – Christ of the Abyss

Everyone know the Colossuem in Rome, the Rialto bridge in venice, the Uffizzi gallery in Florence or the Duomo in Milan, but Italy is full of hidden – in our case literally- treasures , that are as fantastic that the once I have just mentioned, they just miss a bit of marketing. Well, here we…

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