Two days to see the capital of the world? They are very few. But a taste of the Big Apple is possible. Here is a special guide: a weekend in New York. To savor all corners of the city that never sleeps. And that it would be a shame not to visit. The premise is…
Fifty years and not hearing them. Or, if you prefer: a beautiful fifty-year-old. Singapore has recently celebrated its first half century of independence and the Lonely Planet, the most famous of the tourist guides, has honored it by defining it as the place that travelers from all over the world must see absolutely. But what…
Low pastel-painted houses draped in cheeky bougainvillea drapes, storefronts lit with a silk lanterns, small-bodied fishermen carrying baskets of fish from their boats on their shoulders. Life in the historic center of Hoi An, Vietnam, still today it looks like a still image of a colonial life postcard in times gone by. And the guide…
On one side the cliffs and Pacific Oceanon the other a sort of desert. Above, often, a heavy haze – here they call it garua – which arises from the humidity of the sea and which covers the city of File taking away the visitor’s glance. And pushing him to think that the city is…
We say Panama and we think of the canal, of huge ships that cross the mountains to pass between two oceans. But the trip to panama, discovering the Old Town, i.e. the Casco Antiguo of Panama, is critical. Also because the old historic center is now also awarded by Unesco his heart. A heart from…
A city with a vibrant heart, where different languages and cultures mix: Arabs, African, European. It is like the perfect mix of a recipe: many different ingredients make up a special dish; just remove even one of its elements to lose the pleasant taste of that whole. This is the historic and bitter enemy ofRoman…
He has a soul wounded by decades of oppression, a past built on search for gold. Fortunately, there is also a hope for a future based, finally, on integration. Even if it remains a difficult present, made up of neighborhoods where the street is one dangerous urban jungle with roads with the Barbed wire, where…
There’s a eastern quarter in most major American cities. But the San Francisco Chinatown and the oldest and largest so much so that around 100 thousand people still live here today. The first Chinese immigrants arrived in the city in 1848; in 1853 it was erected, in Chinatown, the first Presbyterian church for Asians. In…
Second but first. Second in terms of number of inhabitants but first in terms of quality of life. Not in Australia: throughout the world. Melbourne has earned this recognition for years but it doesn’t stop there. It was hailed as cultural capital of Australia and the role of is not denied garden city. In short,…
One says Maldives and think about the classic shot: white beach, blue sea that cannot be bluer, palm crouched to fill the photo and in the background bungalows that emerge from the water almost by magic. Instead then upon arrival a Malè, the capital ofarchipelago, lands and sees something else and we are amazed. But…