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When you’re the oldest library in the entire world, you’re a survivor and, aside from your venerable books, you have a few stories of your own to tell. We heard some of those tales during an excellent guided tour of Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona, Italy.
World’s oldest library survived plague, plunder, floods and bombs Read more
Sometime in my early adulthood, I graduated to prosciutto and dried salamis, leaving the humble bologna of my childhood behind. But in Bologna, Italy, it’s called mortadella. And suddenly, bologna-eaters are upscale, with permission to indulge openly in all the forms of that deli meat that the city offers.
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Stepping into the Scrovegni Chapel, my eyes immediately turned upward to the deep blue ceiling, scattered with gold stars, then travelled along the still-vibrant frescoed walls painted in the early 1300s.
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We rowed like Venetian gondoliers. We rafted and drank wine on Verona’s river. Then we relaxed on a ferry that glided from town to town over Lake Garda’s azure waters in northern Italy.
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