Italy is so beautiful with sublime cities like Rome, Milan, Florence, with miles of coastline , romantic villages like Positano or Portofino. Vieste is a charming town located in the south of Italy. The country looking like a boot, Vieste is located on the spur of … Read More
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Atrani Beach – Italy
Atrani is one of the most beautiful cities in the Campania region, in the south west of Italy, near Naples. The tiny village of Atrani is famous in Italy and regarded as one of the most beautiful villages in the country. … Read More
Craco – Matera- Italy
Craco is a ghost town and comune in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The old town was abandoned in 1963 due to recurring landslides. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location. … Read More
Balestrino – Liguria – Italy
Balestrino is composed by the old historic town, upon a hill, and the new town below it. Abandoned in 1953 for hydrogeological instability, the old center is a ghost town where the modern center is still inhabited today. Source
Places to See Before They Disappear: Venice – Italy
If your bucket list features a romantic gondola ride on picturesque canals, there’s no time like the present to book a trip to Venice. Due to rising sea levels and natural tectonic processes, the stunning ‘Floating City’ is sinking at … Read More
Best Hidden Gems: Trieste – Italy
Trieste was one of the oldest parts of the Habsburg Monarchy. In the 19th century, it was the most important port of one of the Great Powers of Europe. As a prosperous seaport in the Mediterranean region, Trieste became the fourth largest … Read More
Best Hidden Gems: The Cinque Terre – Italy
The Cinque Terre represent one of the best preserved natural and semi-natural areas of the Mediterranean. Historical and geomorphologic reasons have forbidden excessive housing development and the creation of major roadways (which instead are present inland in the Val di Vara). Human activity and especially … Read More
Best Hidden Gems: Burano – Italy
All visitors of Burano remain intrigued by the many colours and the coloured housesthat are reflected into the green waters of channels, by the Oblique Bell Tower, by the tranquility and the calmness with which the elderly ladies embroider original Burano lace by … Read More
Best Hidden Gems: Portofino – Italy
A small village, Portofino, stretches crescent-shaped along the edge of this calm bay.” Thus wrote Guy de Maupassant when describing Portofino, tiny sea village on theItalian Riviera circumscribed by the green of the Natural Regional Park and Marine Reserve. This splendid sea … Read More
Best Hidden Gems: Alberobello – Italy
The trulli, the characteristic cone-roofed houses of Alberobello, Apulia, make up one of the 50 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. The name derives from the late Greek word for dome (τρούλος; in Italian, cupola), and refers to the ancient stone houses with … Read More