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Rediscover some of the world’s greatest writers, like Boccaccio, Petrarch and Dante, by visiting the places that inspired them and walking in the footsteps of their characters.
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Explore behind Siena’s mesmerising, well-preserved Gothic facades, and dine on handmade pasta in the city’s finest restaurants.
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The museums in the birthplace of Renaissance art can get expensive. Luckily there are a few artistic treasures that cost nothing to enjoy.
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Though Napoleon Bonaparte escaped less than a year after being “banished” to this Tuscan island, he left such a lasting mark that its inhabitants still pray for his soul.
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Siena’s Il Palio features a series of colourful pageants, and most famously, a wild bareback horse race around Piazza del Campo.
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Spain’s third-largest city has urban beaches, a futuristic arts complex and even its own Holy Grail.
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A church that trades stone for saplings
Learn to cook with traditional French techniques
A look at the age-old tradition of viticulture
America’s country music heartland
Road Trips
Tanzania’s overlooked coastline
Tanzania
Australia’s new cultural cathedrals
Australia
The world’s many cups of coffee
Food & Drink
Hiking in Tanzania
Tanzania
Out and about in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Unspoilt southern Thailand by train
Thailand
Tanzania without the crowds
Tanzania
The Summer Redneck Games begin
USA
Event guide to the Diamond Jubilee
London
Mapping the world: Vancouver
Vancouver
Whisky on the Isle of Islay
Scotland
Reversing the holiday brain drain
Hotels
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