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Posts and pages with a map

  • Exploring the Ghetto: A Tour of Rome’s Jewish Quarter [Review]

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    Learn more about the ancient and contemporary history of the Jewish people in Rome with a tour through the ex-Ghetto.

    Commemorative plaques on a wall in Rome's Jewish Quarter
  • Veneto Spa Hotel Has the World’s Deepest Thermal Pool

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    About half an hour by train from Venice and even closer to Padua is Hotel Millepini Terme, a spa hotel that has the Guinness World Record for the world’s deepest thermal pool. The Y-40 The Deep Joy is 137-feet deep (40 meters) at its deepest, with four underwater grottos along the way. There’s a viewing tunnel at…

  • Enrico Toti: Italy’s One-Legged Cyclist Turned World War I Hero

    Italian cyclist Enrico Toti may have the most fascinating World War I story I’ve ever read.

    Enrico Toti statue (from behind), Villa Borghese
  • The Best Ever In-Depth Video of Siena’s Palio

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    Inspiration always seems to find me when I’m not looking and that is exactly what happened as I settled in to watch a few minutes of television last night. Lucky for me, I clicked over to Kenny Mayne’s Wider World of Sports, a show on ESPN that puts sports into a cultural context. One of…