OUT OF TOWN

THE DISCOVERY OF SEVERAL PLACES TO ESCAPE FROM THE CITY

Salvore, the southernmost tip of the Istrian territory

Attention: open in a new window.

Last Updated (Monday, 09 November 2009 17:14)

Protagonist of the European Festival of Gusto 2009

The first tourist town that meets arriving from Slovenia to Croatia, just the tip of the westernmost region of Istria, is Salvore. According to ancient legend, the name of the town was founded in 1177, when Otto, son of the German king Barbarossa, fought a naval battle against the troops of Pope Alexander III to its coast. The young king, to survive, decided to hide inside a tank. "Safe the King" became the place name of Salvore.

Volterra, city of many faces

Attention: open in a new window.

Last Updated (Thursday, 29 October 2009 18:22)

It is fascinating come through the road from Siena. It is located nearly 600 meters on the spur of hills separating the valley of Cecina from the Era. On the other side, however, you get the best-known tourist village of San Gimignano.

Volterra is suggestive. "It only takes three hours to visit - his first warns citizens - need at least three days and then we fell in love with this picturesque Tuscan center." In essence, this is not a place to "hit and run. You arrive to admire the famous "balze" in the surrounding hills, due to a large erosion sinking land and all that is above, and the imposing walls of Volterra, which also appears in the film of '65 "Vague stars of Bear" by Luchino Visconti, Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, starring a young Claudia Cardinale.

In Trentino the "sanctuary of bears'

Attention: open in a new window.

Last Updated (Monday, 19 October 2009 17:17)

In the northwestern part of Trentino, in the magnificent setting of the Val di Non, atop a rocky peak nearly a hundred feet high, stands one of the most distinctive sanctuary of Europe, the San Romedio. The uniqueness comes from the legend that gave the name "Sanctuary of bears" as well as its form: an architectural complex consists of five overlapping churches in height, built at different times and linked by steep steps.

Fagnano Castello, the city of Chestnut in Calabria

Attention: open in a new window.

Last Updated (Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:27)

The name of this small Calabrian village is still a source of debate. The accepted view is that the country takes its name from an ancient castle, which stood throughout the municipality of whose existence, however, there is no tangible evidence, but there being traces in a town in the mountainous area that seems an ancient tower . In reality, this is only hypothesis that can not find any historical confirmation, which is why the word "Castle" still it fails to recognize the meaning.

The Shrine of Cercemaggiore in Molise

Attention: open in a new window.

Last Updated (Monday, 28 September 2009 11:24)

It was the distant 1412. It is said that among Molise’s campaigns, a farmer, plowing the land, cames across unusual something. It was a wooden Byzantine statue, enclosed in a large bowl of clay, depicting the Virgin in an attitude of prayer.

Page 6 of 11