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Pope Francis (Francesco), who in the world bore the name of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), was born December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires. Comes from a family of Italian immigrants, his father worked on the railway. The first head of the Catholic world from the New World, as well as the first Jesuit Pope.
The American news agency CNN has published a rating of the most beautiful subway stations in Europe. According to an authoritative publication, the most amazing and original platform in the metro is located in the Italian city of Naples and is called “Toledo”. Another world-famous newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, approved the choice of its American counterparts.
Whatever city of Germany you go before Christmas, be sure to visit the Christmas market, at least one. Without a walk through the Christmas markets, you simply won’t have a complete impression of Germany! Christmas Market in Nuremberg, photo by Rick Nuremberg Germans believe that the country's best Christmas market is located in Nuremberg (Nürnberg).
Today we will learn how to make salt. After all, vacation in Sicily is not only the sea and the beach, but also many educational sights. Personally, I try not to eat salt in food, but it turns out not so scary. Salt is so commonplace that we don’t even think about where it comes from.
Losing a passport abroad is a very unpleasant situation. In any case, you have already hit at least 1000 euros, exhale and reconcile, try to calm down. In the next 3-4 days, you definitely will not fly home. Let's think what to do next? How long will it take to return home? How to fly home?
The owner says that he lived quietly in a mini-loft with an area of less than 10 m2 with his wife, until they had a daughter. If this is not a world record, then it is very close to it. Casevacanza.it offers the smallest apartment in Italy for tourists to rent. On an area of less than ten square meters (seven, except for the intermediate floor), all the necessary equipment is installed: as a result, the additional area of standard hotel rooms becomes redundant.
The Basilica of St. Clement (Basilica di San Clemente) is a church that is worth visiting for everyone who wants to feel that the "Eternal City" is not a figure of speech, but a reflection of reality. In this small church, located east of the Colosseum (Colloseo), under the very usual guise of the Italian Seychento, there is a real storehouse of Christian shrines, works of art and a layer of historical layers from the emperor Nero to the 18th century.
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Florence - the former capital of the Italian Republic and the current - Tuscany, successfully combines the spirit of the Renaissance and a vibrant modern atmosphere. In fact, every corner of this amazing city is a historically significant place, and Florence Square is rightly called open-air museums.
You can see Rome as it is depicted on glossy postcards while walking in the center. The city looks completely different in the eyes of an indigenous resident who has lived his whole life in the Trastevere area. Located on the right bank of the Tiber River, this part of the capital retained the features of the former city: winding ribbons of streets, small restaurants, ordinary people immersed in their own affairs.
Although the best beaches of Sicily (Sicilia) are located in the south and southeast of the island, beach holidays of varying degrees of comfort are possible on almost its entire coast. There are coastal areas where it is difficult to get to the water, there are many unequipped beaches, but in general there are plenty of opportunities to find the beach of your dreams.
In ancient times, the inhabitants of Sardinia compared the native island with the imprint of the soles of the sandals of Apollo himself, adopting Christianity - with the first trace of God after he decided to look at the world he created. However, such associations can come to mind not only to sard patriots or meticulous geographers, but also to all those who have at least once been able to see the island from the porthole of a liner landing at one of the airports.
The last month of winter in Italy is a mixture of unrestrained and fervent fun, smiles, dances and competitions, which one of the most popular carnivals brings with it not only in the land of sun and wine, but throughout the world. From year to year, the Venice Carnival attracts thousands of tourists who want to plunge into the amazing atmosphere of the holiday and fairy tales.
Stromboli (Stromboli) - a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Mar Tirreno), belonging to the group of Aeolian (Aeolian, Isole Eolie) islands north of Sicily (Sicilia), unique in that it contains a volcano that has remained active for 20 thousand years. The island is 12.5 km² in area.
Now any tourist for just 10 euros can get to the new attraction of Genoa - a huge cruise ship, which crashed in 2012. Only a few weeks after the wrecked ship Costa Concordia made its last journey and found refuge in the port of Genova, local authorities invited tourists to visit the ship with a guided tour.