Tag: Parks and Nature

  • Falling For Italy: Three Fun Activities to Put on Your Italy Itinerary

    Enjoy the outdoors in Italy with these three “fall” activities.

    Tandem Parachuting in Northern Italy
  • Five Best Beaches in Calabria

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    With more than 500 miles of coastline, wrapping around seaside villages and swooping cliffs, Calabria is packed with beaches in every shape, size, and color.

    Tropea beach in Calabria
  • Exploring Italy’s Parks

    Fall is a great time to explore Italy’s national and regional parks, what with the beautiful foliage changing colors and the majority of tourists – both Italian and international – having packed up their bags and headed home. Italy currently has 22 national parks – with two more in the process of being established –…

  • The Real Pinocchio

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    Last November, the New York Review of Books released Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio under its NYRB Classics imprint. The tale, as reviewed by Tim Parks in the latest issue, is much darker than the Disneyfied version. After the jump is Parks’ full review. As always, I urge you to subscribe to NYRB; they…