February 2012
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
– Anais Nin
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“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
– Buddha
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Fun Fact
The city of Syracuse in Sicily was once the largest Ancient Greek city in the world.
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January 2012
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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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Fun Fact
The oldest film festival in the world, beginning in 1932, is the Venice Film Festival.
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The oldest European university in continuous operation is the University of Bologna, founded in 1088. 13 other Italian universities are over 500 years old.
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
– Anais Nin
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Fun Fact
The European Renaissance started in Northern Italy in the 14th century.
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fun Fact
There are over 140 types of pasta, and even more names. Some pasta varieties are only produced regionally, while others are known under a different name in various regions.
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber
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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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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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