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Palace Hotel and Spa is a beautiful 5 stars luxury hotel in Anacapri , the village on the island of Capri, Italy.  The hotel stands 300 meters above sea level, overlooking the open Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Naples. The hotel is stylish and exudes modern Italian charm and is located in a quieter part of the island far from the crowds of Capri.
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Pescara – a city in the Abruzzo region of Italy, situated at sea level on the Atlantic coast. The coast is low and sandy and the beach extends untouched for some distance to both the north and the south of the river. The city has Mediterranean climate typical of Atlantic Sea with dry hot summers, rainy winters and high humidity all year round. Pescara is also city of culture, art and relax.
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Relais Il Falconiere Hotel Cortona is an elegant residence, built in 1600, located between Umbria and Tuscany in the beautiful countryside of Cortona. Place for complete tranquillity, where the senses are treated to sumptuous flavours and fragrances, exquisite natural and man-made beauty. Nearly all of the frescoes, architectural features and decorative works.
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On February each year the residents of the small town – Ivrea, Italy, take a part in a festival with the biggest fruit fight. Its historic event celebrates the rebellion of the people against a tyrant who ruled the town in the middle ages. In the battle main weapons are the oranges. Thousands come from far to take part in the annual Battle of the Oranges, and it’s safe to say that no one leaves untouched by pulp.
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It’s five-star luxury hotel and has been voted one of the 400 best hotels in the world by prestigious magazine “Forbes Traveller”. Hotel “Caruso” was reopened in summer 2005 after a complete renovation. It started in 1893 as a small pension. Then the hotel’s fans included Greta Garbo, Jackie Kennedy, Humphrey Bogart, Richard Wagner, D.H.Lawrence, Tennessee Williams and Virginia Woolf.
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Amedei is a boutique confectionery in the Pisan village of Pontedera, Tuscany (Italy). No place in the world takes chocolate making as seriously as Amedei Factory.
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Alcantara Gorges and the Alcantara River are the most interesting natural monuments in Sicily, Italy, as a lot of tourists say. The gorges are accessible for a stretch when the waters are low, at a depth of between 50 and 200 cm. Long ago during the eruption of one of the small craters Mogo lava flows made the river-bed on the northern slope of the mount Etna. The magma, cooling off, formed prism basaltic high walls and the erosion of the river  transformed it in a canyon. The tourists will have an opportunity to see the river in all its beauty: its numerous shallows, water falls and vertical basalt cliffs of whimsical forms.
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