Torino, site of the 2006 Winter Olympics, is located on the left bank of the Po River. Aside from being a city of porticos, Torino is also well known as the home of the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man; …
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Valle d’Aosta, Italy
Upon crossing under Mont Blanc through the Mont Blanc Tunnel from France into Italy, you enter the region known as Valle d’Aosta. In 1031-1032 Humbert I of Savoy, the founder of the House of Savoy, received the title Count of Aosta from the Emperor Conrad II of the Franconian line and built himself a commanding …
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Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
Chamonix is the home of the Mont Blanc summit and was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the very first Winter Olympics. The valley of Chamonix was formed by glaciers during the Quaternary Era some ten thousand years ago when the town was buried under about 1000 meters of ice. Chamonix has been described …
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Cascade d’ Arpenaz (Sallanches, France)
The Cascade d’ Arpenaz is a huge waterfall at a total height of 1199 feet that literally shoots out of the cliff face. Below, the waters gather into smaller waterfalls that notch and slide into the stream below. You can hike up a trail alongside the waterfall and picnic in the field just in front …
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The Sights of Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva is known as the “Peace Capital” of the world and rightly so as it is the headquarters of the United Nations as well as where the Geneva Conventions were signed. Located where the Rhone River exits Lake Geneva, it is a compact metropolis with many sights to see. The Jet d’Eau, or water jet, …
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Morges, Switzerland
Morges is a small town situated on Lake Geneva in Switzerland and is called the “flower of Lake Geneva.” It’s no wonder since Morges hosts the yearly Tulip Festival, which has become a tradition. More than a hundred thousand tulips in over 300 varities, some of them over 100 years old, are on display from …
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Three Must Visit Towns on Lake Como
Lake Como is Italy’s third largest lake and is made up of about 24 towns and villages. In 1818 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Thomas Love Peacock: “This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty, with the exception of the arbutus islands of Killarney. It is long and narrow, and has the appearance of …
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Touring Brussels
Brussels is the capital of Belgium and often referred to as the capital of Europe because it is the administrative center of the European Union. The Atomium, with its nine steel spheres that form the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, was built for Expo ’58, the 1958 …
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Bruges, Belgium
Bruges is known as the Venice of the North with its picturesque canals. Once directly connected with the sea, gradual silting since around 1050 has caused the city to lose its direct access to the sea.The historic city center was added to Unesco’s World Heritage List in 2000. The current city boundaries still coincide exactly with …
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Ghent, Belgium
Ghent is a city at the confluence of Scheldt and Lys rivers in the Flanders region of Belgium. In the 11th and 12th centuries, Ghent became an important trade center thanks to the local production of cloth, made from imported English wool. It was at this time that the city’s impressive stone Castle of the …
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