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Where are we? The pink-striped building with the Venetian-Gothic windows and the lion on the column may make you think of Venice, and...

Milan Cathedral is riotously Gothic--a joy to behold from every angle, and there are certainly plenty of angles, especially considering...

Meteora is one of the most unworldly places I've ever been to: the rock formations are unusual enough in themselves, but the medieval...

Just below the hill you're standing on, you can see a Greek-style temple, never completed but still standing since the 400s BC. This is...

These are the ruins of a Greek theater built in the 200s BC and modified by the Romans. The gaping hole in the skene ("scene," in front...

You're looking down on the gardens of the Villa Rufalo and then farther down to the town of Ravello and the Amalfi Coast, south of...

Naples is the kind of city where you might turn a corner and find yourself facing an ancient (c. 200 AD; head added in 1657) statue of...

You are looking at the Umbrian countryside, from the hill town of Orvieto, just behind the Cathedral. When my friends and I discovered...

Guidebook(s?) in hand, I'm standing on a hill above Florence during my 1973 trip to Europe. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had...

One of my favorite experiences of any of my trips to Europe was visiting a former star of Italian opera, living in retirement in the...