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Enjoy the view over Trieste from the Saint Just Hill, overlooking the Adriatic, and the draught-board of the modern city that the Romans founded, Tergeste, where most of the ancient and medieval remains of the city are concentrated today. The Piazza della Cattedrale is a square located on Saint Just Hill, in the center of [...]

We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek [...]

As might well be expected from what they accomplished for music in other ways the inventions of Italians in musical instruments are many and various and most important. The violin in the form in which we have it comes entirely from their hands and it is besides to Italian makers that we owe the perfection [...]

Italians are good at custom luxuries. At Alfa Romeo, the Italian motor car manufacturer, they play a nostalgic tune to reaffirm a sporting identity lost a long time ago. The alfists whose passion survived so many decades started to despair to see one day the 8C Competizione passing from a motor show dream to luxury [...]

In the history of Italian art, Raphael stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of English literature. Everywhere we recognize his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated, never improved.
Raphael of Urbino was born in Urbino, in 1483. Urbino is located in the Marche region of Italy, between Ravenna and Perugia. As you [...]

A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy.
Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. And [...]

A varied country from North to South, Italy benefits from attractions in every little town and village. With the exception of the three great cities (Milan, Rome and Naples) the rest of the population is scattered in a myriad of towns, countries and villages that constitute the true fabric of the country.
3,550 museums, [...]

The Sardinia booth at the Fair of Madrid is inside of the Enit (Italy Tourism Office) space. Present are the provinces of Cagliari, Olbia-Tempio and Carbonia Iglesias, in move to support Sardinia tourism. The Region insists on tourist promotion. Sardinia confirms that the arrivals of tourists in Sardinia are on the increase. The president of [...]

Nearly all the accessories of the modern theatre were invented by the Italians. In the chapter on architecture the story is told in some detail. The Venetians first constructed the theatre with two tiers of boxes arranged circularly round a pit sloping backwards as at present and Pontana, a generation later, invented the horseshoe form. [...]

Kereke.com has just opened for business. It is a martial arts webstore and its corporate site is still under construction at Kerekemartialarts.com We are currently looking for ideas to help our corporate website have relevant links to information about the martial arts whose supplies we carry. If any individuals have suggestions to [...]