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From music to architecture to local food and drink, iconic images from around this Italian city.
Raise your glasses and loosen your corsets: Venice Carnevale offers an extra weekend of parties in 2011, extending the city's marathon pre-Lent celebrations to three weeks.
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With its medieval walled villages and ochre-coloured villas, set within a landscape of vineyards, cypress trees and hills rolling down to the coast, you could spend a lifetime exploring the best of Tuscany.
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Imagine you’re a medieval lord or lady in historic San Gimignano; watch the world go by in Siena’s busy central square; walk or cycle through the magnificient, Renaissance-style countryside of Le Crete Senesi; then enjoy a tipple or two in wine-making Montalcino; before hitting the waves and exploring the Maremma coast.
The Eternal City has a thriving ex-pat community, eager to fit in and enjoy la bella figura.
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It is hard to imagine anywhere more romantic than Lucca in the spring. From late March to early June, the surrounding meadows are splashed with colour, as wild flowers run riot.
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