Tagged With "Benito Mussolini"
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Re: Anatomy of a Trip, Oaxaca: Mercado Benito Juarez
Love me a good market! I would have loved wandering those aisles with you -- sampling as we go.
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Venice: Underwater, but Undivided
For the fifth time in 40 years, a vote to split Venice from its mainalnd parts fails, this time because of low turnout.
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Milan to get Italian Resistance museum
The Italian anti-fascist resistance to Mussolini and German invaders will soon be honored in a museum to be built in Milan.
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Italian Swiss town 'rejoins' Italy
An Italian town whose heart and geography may have been in Switzerland loses its unique status.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 21, 2015: Clemenceau in the Wind
This statue of Georges Clemenceau, is one of my favorite Paris statues, not least because it embodies none of the heroic classicism that tends to make the person being honored seem a concept rather than a person. Here, no matter what the...
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Anatomy of a Trip, Oaxaca: Mercado Benito Juarez
A great number of things in Mexico are named for the country’s most beloved historical leader, Benito Juarez, born in a Zapotec village in the State of Oaxaca. It’s fitting, then, that the original market in the city is named...
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Ancient Circus Maximus is Rome's newest ruin
A large area of the fabled Circus Maximus, home of chariot races and triumphal marches, has been excavated and opened for visitors.
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Piazza del Duomo, Milan
DrFumblefinger visits the always busy and popular square, Piazza del Duomo, which faces the city's famous cathedral. He points out some of the highlights of the Piazza.
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WWII concentration camp to become luxury resort
WWII concentration camp to become a luxury resort.
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Bologna's San Petronio: 625 years behind schedule
Bologna's San Petronio Basilica is one of the world's largest churches, unfinished after more than six centuries, but magnificent nonetheless.
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Nov. 8, 2018: Milano Centrale railway station
DrFumblefinger shares some views of Milan's busy Central train station, an example of "Fascist Architecture".
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The Columbus Museum, Georgia
PHeymont visits a museum that is almost a perfect illustration at what a smaller regional museum can bring to the table.
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A Winter Wander in Rhodes
A short off-season stay in Rhodes Old Town gave PHeymont a chance to visit several layers of history.