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Travel tips and stories from the places where our houses stand: what to see, when to go, how to get there.
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Torre Annunziata, between Oplontis, Pompeii and Vesuvius
Torre Annunziata lies at a point on the Bay of Naples where history can be read in layers: beneath the modern town there is a frescoed Roman villa, Pompeii is…
Near Villa Tiberiade
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Sant’Agnello and the Sorrento Peninsula, in the footsteps of Marion Crawford
“In tempestate securitas”, a safe place in the storm: the American writer Francis Marion Crawford had these words carved on the ramparts of his villa in Sant’Agnello, perched above the…
Near Villa Crawford
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Naples on foot, from one church to the next: a walk through the historic centre
Naples has more than five hundred churches, and many of them stand within one square kilometre of the historic centre. For those travelling with a parish group, on pilgrimage or…
Near Casa FMA Napoli
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Rome from Termini: Don Bosco’s church and the papal basilicas
A short walk from Termini station, in Via Marsala, there is a basilica that Don Bosco had built with the last of his strength: the Sacred Heart of Jesus at…
Near Casa per Ferie Maria Ausiliatrice
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Caorle: the fishing village, the lagoon and the sea
Caorle is a fishing village with colourful houses, a thousand-year-old cylindrical bell tower and a sanctuary on the rocks. Behind it lies a lagoon of canals and reed huts, in…
Near Casa per Ferie San Giuseppe
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Cesuna and the Asiago Plateau: woods, memories of the Great War and mountain flavours
In Cesuna, on the Asiago Plateau, the beech and fir woods hide trenches, war cemeteries and paths that climb up to the pastures. A century ago one of the hardest…
Near Villa Tabor
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Verbania and Lake Maggiore: Villa Taranto, the Borromean Islands and places of silence
Seen from the hill of Zoverallo, Lake Maggiore looks like a still sea enclosed by mountains: in the middle of the water lie the Borromean Islands; on the shores, nineteenth-century…
Near Casa per Ferie Maria Mazzarello
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Soverato and the Orange Coast: the sea, Gagini’s Pietà and Squillace
Soverato looks out over the Gulf of Squillace, on a stretch of Ionian coast that Calabrians call the Costa degli Aranci, the Orange Coast. It has beaches of pale sand,…
Near Casa FMA Soverato
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The history of the Asiago Plateau
The Asiago Plateau has its roots in the Roman era and in particular in Celtic culture. Traces of this presence can still be found today in the local dialect and…
Near Villa Tabor