December 2011
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Fun Fact
Galileo Galilei, the famous mathematician and astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy in the year 1564.
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Fun Fact
St Peter, one of the twelve Apostles, was the first of two hundred and sixty-five Popes.
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Spartacus the slave, fought as a gladiator in the Roman Colosseum. He miraculously escaped, then went on to lead a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic and was eventually killed in battle in 71BC.
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust
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“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
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Fun fact of the day
The city of Syracuse in Sicily was once the largest Ancient Greek city in the world.
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Fun fact of the day
The name “Italy” comes from Greek “italos”, which means calf. It was originally given to the region of Calabria by Greek settlers in the 8th century BCE, and was extended to the whole peninsula under Roman emperor Augustus.
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Fun fact of the day
Italy has 20 regions and 6 islands
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“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and...”
– Miriam Beard
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“Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.”
– Milton Glaser
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
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“Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves”
– Euripides
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“Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.”
– René Descartes
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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.”
– ~James Baldwin
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Fun fact of the day:
Parmesan cheese originated in the area around Parma, Italy. Italians also created many other cheeses, including gorgonzola, mozzarella, provolone, and ricotta
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
– ~Aldous Huxley
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Ancient History Fact of the Day
At its height in A.D. 117, the Roman Empire stretched from Portugal in the West to Syria in the east, and from Britain in the North to the North African deserts across the Mediterranean. It covered 2.3 million miles (two-thirds the size of the U.S.) and had a population of 120 million people. During the Middle Ages, Rome had perhaps no more than 13,000 residents.
- Hearder, Harry and Jonathan...
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Fun Fact
Vatican City is the only nation in the world that can lock its own gates at night. It has its own phone company, radio, T.V. stations, money, and stamps. It even has its own army, the historic Swiss Guard
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“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
– Seneca
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Fun Fact
The University of Rome is one of the world’s oldest universities and was founded by the Catholic Church in A.D. 1303. Often called La Sapienza (“knowledge”), the University of Rome is also Europe’s largest university with 150,000 students
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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and...”
– Anatole France
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“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then...”
– Susan Heller
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“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”
– Hilaire Belloc
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“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose...”
– William Least Heat Moon
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A 45-minute drive to the 1970’s
Italy is famous for many things including her never-ending array of small medieval towns however there is one more unique than all the others. With a population of 100, all artists, hippies and bohemians, it is beautiful and unique as its residents and only a 45-minute drive from Rome.
Calcata was originally abandoned in the 1960’s after the government condemned it unsafe to live in but this did...
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