Maratea – the Italian diamond on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast

Maratea, Italy

Maratea is beautiful Italian town located away from the noisy and bustling industrial cities of northern Italy. It is a part of a narrow strip along the Gulf of Policastro. The whole area can really amaze you with its beauty. This lovely town is built between blue and incredibly clear waters and mountains covered with thick green forest. It is

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Pompeii – City of Ashes

Theatre at Pompeii, Italy

Who does not know Pompeii? Probably everyone already heard about this town situated in the Bay of Naples. In the past, it became the unwilling participant of a natural disaster, which killed the whole city along with its inhabitants and covered by the ash. But, paradoxically, this disaster very extended our knowledge of the ancient world. Pompeii was founded in

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Parma – the capital city of gourmets and gourmands

Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Parma is a small provincial town, located between Milan and Bologna. It is becoming a popular destination over the few recent years. Tourists are coming here to admire not only historically interesting part of the city, but also to enjoy a quiet and carefree atmosphere that is steeped in Parma all around. Although no records of the town establishment have

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See Naples and die! Explore the city of five hundred towers

Piazza del Plebiscito, one of Naples' largest public squares

Naples is beautiful… This bustling metropolis of Campania, called Napoli in Italy, can offer its visitors really a lot. But you must be prepared for indeed a mass of people! In terms of population the city itself is the third largest city in Italy (after Rome and Milan), but with its neighbors and suburbs forms the second largest continuously built-up

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Ribera – a small town in Sicily with nice 14th century castle

Ribera, Sicily, Italy

Ribera is a small town in the province of Agrigento in southern Sicily with 20 000 inhabitants. It lies close to the sea at a height of 223 meters above sea level between two valleys (Verdura and Magazzolo valleys) on a plain called San Nicola. The town and its surroundings is predominantly agricultural. But Ribera also offers a lot of

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