Ventimiglia is a town located in the far western part of the Italian region Liguria and… no! It has nothing to do with measuring distance – the translation of the name is literally “twenty miles”, even if you might thing so! Its name derives from the Latin word Albintimilium (hence Bintimilium, Ventimilium), formed from “albom” […]
Beyond the westernmost point of Sicily, beyond the confines of the western sea, the Egadi (Aegadian) Islands stand out against the Caribbean blue of a dreamy sea. You’re surely familiar with them, you’ve certainly heard of them, and the latest cinematic success—The Odyssey, by Nolan—partly filmed here has further relaunched them as a holiday destination. […]
What lies across a border? Often there are walls, barbed wire, ditches… between Sweden and Finland there are fjords. Long wounds in the land that the sea fills with its waves, over centuries, until they transform into endless navigable lakes. We take you right to the edge of the line separating these two Nordic nations […]
There was a time, between the 1980s and 1990s, when honeymooning in Hawaii was a global trend. Cruises to Hawaii were the prizes of many TV game shows. A week in Hawaii was the ideal vacation for big companies and the wealthy families. And what about today? Now that travel is affordable for everyone, […]
The roof of Sardinia, or rather the island’s highest point, is located within the Gennargentu massif, a mountain range located off the island’s eastern coast in the district of Nuoro-Ogliastra. Among its many peaks, Punta La Marmora (1,834 meters above sea level) stands out. In Sardinian, it’s called Perda Crapìas—meaning “broken rocks”—and is the highest, […]
Germany has two capitals: Bonn and Berlin. Or rather, it “had” two capitals in the past, when for too many years after World War 2 it was divided into two nations, West Germany and East Germany. This shameful wound was healed in the 1990s, and the country reunified, choosing the tormented Berlin as its only […]
Until thirty years ago, just hearing the name… Medellín… made your bones shake. This word was synonymous with drug trafficking, bloody wars between traffickers, social unrest and terror. Today, all of this seems to have disappeared into thin air, and a new rediscovery of this Colombian city is allowing its rebirth thanks to tourism. Medellín […]
Madeira has proclaimed itself the “Pearl of the Atlantic” and it is a true treasure. Not a physical treasure, but a cultural and economic one, as for centuries it was the last European outpost before the great ocean and the colonies. Commercial and tourist ships stopped in Madeira before embarking on the great journey to […]
Don’t panic! This is the first rule. Here is another heat wave coming, and this time, they tell you, it will be terrible: temperatures above 40C degrees, fire risk, very high humidity. Your instinct tells you to hunker down indoors with the fridge open and the air conditioning on full blast… but what if […]
