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ALGHERO (SARDINIA)

Catalan echoes and coral-red walls on a Sardinian headland above the Med.

ALGHERO SARDINIA

Catalan echoes and coral-red walls on a Sardinian headland above the Med.

Paper mills and lemon groves cling to cliffs above a medieval sea-republic.

Old women press orecchiette by hand in Puglia's sun-bleached old quarter.

The Appian Way ends here, at the Adriatic's edge and the start of Greece.

CAGLIARI (SARDINIA)

Pink flamingos wade in salt lagoons below the ramparts of Sardinia's capital.

CAGLIARI SARDINIA

Pink flamingos wade in salt lagoons below the ramparts of Sardinia's capital.

Baroque lava-stone piazzas smolder in the permanent shadow of Etna.

CIVITAVECCHIA (ROME)

Michelangelo's fortress guards the port from which Rome's eternal story begins.

Brunelleschi's dome still announces the city where the Renaissance was born.

Caruggi alleys riddle a medieval republic that once held the keys to the east.

GIARDINI-NAXOS SICILY

Greece's first Sicilian colony sleeps at the foot of Taormina's clifftop stage.

LA SPEZIA (FLORENCE)

The Ligurian key to five painted villages clinging above the sea.

LIVORNO (FLORENCE)

Medici canals opening onto a Tuscan plain of towers and Renaissance art.

Where Sicily's strait churns with currents, myths, and cross-sea light.

Lombardy's landlocked capital: Duomo marble and da Vinci's hidden fresco.

Vesuvius broods over a sprawling city of ancient hunger and beauty.

Granite cliffs and turquoise bays along Sardinia's emerald northern coast.

Granite cliffs and turquoise bays along Sardinia's emerald northern coast.

Where Arab-Norman cathedrals rise from a Baroque street maze.

A horseshoe harbour of painted villas where the idle and rich drift.

Pastel houses cascade down vertiginous cliffs to a cobalt cove.

Byzantine gold shimmers in mosaics laid by the emperors of Rome.

Two millennia of empire still walk the seven hills and forum stones.

Gateway to the clifftop coast road above Italy's most storied shore.

SANTA MARGHERITA LIGURE

Pastel Ligurian elegance in a sheltered bay steps from Portofino.

The quieter Riviera: Ligurian hillsides behind a working harbour.

Cliff-top terraces heavy with lemon groves above the Gulf of Naples.

SYRACUSE SICILY

Greek theatres and Baroque piazzas on Sicily's luminous eastern shore.

Greece's first Sicilian colony sleeps at the foot of Taormina's clifftop stage.

An island city between two seas where Magna Graecia meets Puglia.

Salt marshes, windmills, and Sicily's sun-bleached western tip.

Habsburg melancholy where the Adriatic meets the Central European soul.

Gondola canals, basilica mosaics, and a floating city built on wooden piles.

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