Costa del Montenegro

On April 15, 1979, a magnitude 7 earthquake shook the Montenegrin coast, cracking the Venetian walls of Kotor and sinking part of the pier in Budva: it was precisely from that wound, and from the reconstruction work that...

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Tessaglia

Anyone crossing Thessaly by train or car immediately notices a tear in the landscape: kilometres of wheat and cotton fields as flat as a table and, suddenly, without warning, towers of grey rock dozens of metres high tha...

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Montenegro Settentrionale

In January 1916, on the snow-covered heights above Mojkovac, the army of the small Kingdom of Montenegro held out for three days against Austro-Hungarian troops, buying the time needed to bring the government to safety a...

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Creta

Crete is not only the largest island in Greece, but a true miniature continent floating in the heart of the Mediterranean, suspended between myth and reality. Defined by the ancients as the 'land of the center', this isl...

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Albania Meridionale

In 48 BC, fleeing from Pompey across a storm-tossed Adriatic, Julius Caesar's legions came ashore near Palaeste, a fishing harbour on the coast we now call the Albanian Riviera. Two thousand years later, that same coastl...

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Riviera Albanese

There is a coast in Albania that the first European travellers of the twentieth century called the Riviera of the Flowers of the Orient, and not without reason: the Albanian Riviera drops steeply from the Ceraunian Mount...

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Isole Ionie

Suspended between the deep blue of the Ionian and the emerald green of luxuriant vegetation, the Ionian Islands represent a cultured and refined exception in the Greek landscape. Also known as the Heptanese, or the «Seve...

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Grecia Centrale

According to myth, Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of the world and sent them flying toward one another: they met over a valley at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and it was there that the stone of the omphalos,...

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Albania Centrale

In 1920 Tirana was little more than a large Ottoman town of twenty thousand souls gathered around a mosque and a covered bazaar: today it is a capital of almost half a million inhabitants, and it is precisely in this gap...

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Grecia Occidentale

Travelers arriving by ferry from Ancona, Bari, or Brindisi first see the lights of the port of Patras, and then, looking west, the suspended arch of the Rio-Antirrio bridge that welds the Peloponnese to mainland Greece:...

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Albania Settentrionale

In 1444 Skanderbeg gathered the Albanian princes in the cathedral of Lezhë and swore the league that for a quarter of a century held off the Ottoman army: from that pact onward, northern Albania has cultivated a proud, a...

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Veneto: From the Dolomites to the Venice Lagoon

Veneto is a mosaic of landscapes and civilisations packed into a single region: the Dolomite peaks of Cortina and the Marmolada, a UNESCO World Heritage site, descend toward the Prosecco hills and the Euganean Hills, the...

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