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Spots of South Italy Excursions
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Southern Italy Regions Towns and Areas
... mountains thickly overgrown with woods, this small town of Calabria's hinterland hosts a Monastery built in the rocks and a prehistoric site where animal remains, and crockery and skeletons of Palaeolithic ... Friday, 20 November 2009 -
Basilicata - Maratea
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Basilicata Region Towns Areas National Parks
... of history. The many churches, housing important works of art, the chapels, the convents and the monastery, the crosses and the obelisks, all bear witness to the profoundly religious spirit of the people. ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria Regione Traditions History Nature Food + Wine
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Southern Italy Regions Towns and Areas
... strong provola, and "butirro", provolone with a butter centre. Excellent is the cow's milk cheese made in very small quantities by the monks of the San Bruno monastery, at Serra San Bruno, like the goat's ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria - Isola Capo Rizzuto
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Calabria Region Towns Areas National Parks
... a Monastery of Benedictine monks. The name Isola (Island) dates back many years when the bishop had power over all the local islands that over the years have united to form Terra Ferma or mainland. Along ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria - Papasidero
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Calabria Region Towns Areas National Parks
... a monastery who's hegumen was Papas Isidoros. The inhabitants of Papasidero today are famous for their various production of local wines and cheeses, they also produce cereals, vegetables and a wide ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria - Praia a Mare
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Calabria Region Towns Areas National Parks
... objects, oil lamps, bowls. In the 10th century this cave became the area where Greek monks staged their dwellings, later it became a monastery consecrated to St. Elias. On Praia's hilltops lays another ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria - Stilo
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Calabria Region Towns Areas National Parks
... Georgia. Another famous is the Basiliano Monastery whose ruins are found on a height above the town. From Stilo you can go visit Calabrian sites and towns like Gerace that lies close by, that apart ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Calabria - Wine & Food
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Calabria Region Towns Areas National Parks
... Excellent is the cow's milk cheese made in very small quantities by the monks of the San Bruno monastery, at Serra San Bruno, like the goat's milk cheeses from Aspromonte, made at Bova, Roccaforte del ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Campania - Amalfi
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Campania Region Towns Areas National Parks
... in Amalfi; here, the finish line is set in front of the Great Marina with the suggestive setting of Mount Aureo with the Ziro Tower, St. Lawrence of the Plain (a former monastery), the Cape Cross Quarter ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Campania - Capri
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Campania Region Towns Areas National Parks
... "Villa Jovis" mainly "Cerio Museum" and "Diefenbach Museum" Certosa di San Giacomo (Carthusian Monastery of St. James) in Capri where there are valuable works of art and two cloisters from the 15th-16th ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Campania - Padula
Category: South Italy Travel Guide/Campania Region Towns Areas National Parks
Campania - Padula CHOOSE ACCOMMODATION SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS EXCURSIONS geo/padula THE CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY ... Thursday, 19 November 2009
