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Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, served as a priest-violinist at the Ospedale della Pietà (a foundling home and…

Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, served as a priest-violinist at the Ospedale della Pietà (a foundling home and…

The case for doing Florence by electric golf cart is unapologetically practical: the historic centre is hot, crowded, and paved…

Florence food tours are a saturated market. There are maybe twenty operators running some variant of “walk around the Oltrarno,…

Val d’Orcia is the part of Tuscany that ended up on every screensaver. Soft, rolling, tawny-gold hills; the single cypress…

The honest truth about cycling through Chianti is that the hills are real. Rolling postcard-perfect landscape photos understate the gradients;…

Santa Monaca is a 14th-century Augustinian church in Florence’s Oltrarno district. It still functions as a working parish during the…

Florence’s daylight version is the Renaissance gift shop. The night version is something else entirely. Same streets, but with the…

You can walk the entire historical centre of Florence in 90 minutes. The Duomo to Piazza della Signoria to Ponte…

Italians don’t measure ingredients. They eyeball flour by the handful, crack eggs by feel, and adjust salt by tongue. Florence…

Twelve and a half hours, two medieval Umbrian towns, two cathedrals built before America was a thing, and a coach…

Dan Brown wrote a thriller in 2000 called Angels & Demons that imagined the Pope murdered, the Vatican attacked, and…

Most Rome visitors look at the Capitoline Hill, take a photo of Michelangelo’s piazza from the top of the cordonata…

You don’t have to be Catholic. You don’t have to want a blessing. You can show up purely as a…

Cycling Rome sounds insane the first time someone suggests it. The traffic, the cobblestones, the seven hills, the Vespas weaving…

The Via Appia Antica is the oldest road in Europe still in regular use. The same basalt cobbles your e-bike…

Look. You’ll feel like a dork. Helmet on, hands on the bars, knees locked, every Roman in a 30-metre radius…

The Bioparco di Roma sits inside Villa Borghese — Rome’s 80-hectare central park — and holds about 1,200 animals across…

Rome’s evening opera concerts happen in intimate church and palazzo settings — 50 to 200 seats, live singers accompanied by…

Rome has two competing Leonardo da Vinci exhibitions running year-round, both featuring full-scale reconstructions of his inventions built from the…

Welcome to Rome is the city’s 360-degree multimedia history show — a 35-minute immersive journey through 3,000 years of Roman…

The 3-in-1 cooking class near Piazza Navona is Rome’s most-booked culinary experience, with 7,376 reviews and counting. Three dishes —…

Trastevere is where Romans actually eat. The cobblestone streets on the Tiber’s western bank hold a denser concentration of authentic…

Rome has been burying people for 2,800 years and a surprising chunk of it happened underground. The catacombs hold an…

The Borghese Gallery holds the best concentration of Bernini sculptures on the planet — and possibly the most controlled entry…

The Quatsch Comedy Club sits inside the Friedrichstadt-Palast building on Friedrichstrasse and has been Berlin’s main stand-up venue since Thomas…

The Dresden 360° Panorama Amazonia is a 30-metre-tall, 100-metre-circumference panorama painting by artist Yadegar Asisi displayed inside a former gasometer.…

DARK MATTER is Berlin’s immersive light installation venue — 12 rooms by 9 international artists, each room a different sensory…

BODY WORLDS in Berlin (Körperwelten) is the permanent installation of Gunther von Hagens’ famously controversial anatomy exhibition — real human…

Port des Lumières in Hamburg projects 4K-resolution videos of paintings by Klimt and Hundertwasser onto a 7,000-square-metre former industrial space…

Segway tours give you Berlin at the perfect speed — fast enough to cover ground that walking can’t manage in…