The Balkans are a feast for the imagination with their soaring scenery, diverse population and colorful history filled with larger-than-life legends, myths, monsters, and heroines. Begin your journey with Jennifer…
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Since the 17th century, Vienna’s coffeehouses have been an integral part of the sophisticated, polyglot cultural, intellectual and political capital of the Habsburg empire.
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Follow in the footsteps of Sissi, Austria’s beloved Empress Elisabeth, wife of Emporer Franz Josef. Beautiful, enigmatic, and passionate, Elisabeth’s life was captured in sumptuous Technicolor in the 1950s in…
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Read up on Italy with these 7 classics on art, history, and food!
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The Merchants of Venice Visiting the city's bustling fish and produce market "What news on the Rialto?” So asks Shylock, the anti-hero of Shakespeare’s ”Merchant of Venice.” And it’s a…
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Simplicity is the secret to Liguria’s famous sauce, pesto Genovese, a sauce which perfectly fuses the culinary bounty of the natural ingredients found in sun-kissed Cinque Terre.
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