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Florence, Italy always reminds me of Sandra Bullock’s movie While You Were Sleeping. Since I’ve never been there (and this post is more out of jealousy than anything else), I’m imagining which cathedrals to see when I’m in Florence. My online search for beautiful cathedrals in Florence gave me these results:
1. Duomo
Construction of the Duomo […]

The Basilica of St. Peter, commonly called St. Peter’s Basilica or Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano in Italian, is the most prominent building in Vatican City and covers an area of 5.7 acres and has a capacity of over 60,000 people.
There are over one hundred tombs located within St. Peter’s Basilica, and this is […]

Traveling to any new location will bring surprises of many kinds. You will encounter both pleasant and uncomfortable surprises. This is certainly true of Italy as well.
In this article we highlight eighteen different things that surprise most first time visitors to Italy.
18 Italian Surprises
1. Italy can feel like one big tourist […]