Lost City in Sorrento

Adjacent to the center of picturesque Sorrento, Italy two chasms meet. Long ago, rivers in these gorges flowed cleanly down to the ocean, and were the original settlement in the…

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Canyon Conundrum

The seaside village of Vernazza, Italy makes its living from catching fishes and catering to tourists. Carved into the rocky ledges of the Ligurian coast, behind the village facade facing…

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Vernazza

Coming from the north, Vernazza is the second town in the Cinque Terre ("Five Lands") on the Ligurian coast of Italy. Of the five lands, I think it is my…

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Female Gondolier in Venice

There aren't very many female gondoliers in Venice. You can probably count them on the fingers of one hand. So it was very exciting to meet and talk to a…

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Venice Perspective

At the tip of Dorsoduro, the Venetian Quarter across the Grand Canal from San Marco, sits the Dogana di Mare. The Dogana di Mare is a colonnaded customs station built…

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Burano

My friend Mauro and I took the vaporetto across the fog-bound Venice lagoon to Burano. Just like a trip to a remote part of a city served by an on-land…

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Venice of Dreams

Coming into Venice after a long day on the train from Naples was a dream-like experience. From southern almost summer time I was transported into an early November dark world…

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View from Ravello

Ravello sits about 1,000 feet above the town of Amalfi on the stupendous Amalfi Coast of Italy. Back in the 1200s and 1300s, when Amalfi was a geopolitical powerhouse, Ravello…

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Positano

Positano has rightly been described as a town of cliff dwellers because it seems to defy the laws of gravity, with buildings connected via stairway after staircase. There are no…

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Gardens of the Villa San Michele

At the end of the 1800s an eccentric Swedish physician with aristocratic connections, Axel Munthe, began work on his "dream house" on the island of Capri in Italy. The location…

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Courtyard in Naples

Glancing through the huge double-doors, I saw this courtyard in old Naples. Boldly I stepped through the doors, and iPhone held high like any tourist made this image, which I…

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