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Trieste Travel Guide, Italy

A Italian city with close relations with the adjacent Slavic and Germanic cultures

Trieste is a city and port in northeastern Italy near the Slovenian border, located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. Throughout its history, it has been influenced by its geographic position at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin and Slavic culture. With a population of 208,614 as of 2007, it is the capital of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trieste province.Trieste flourished as part of Austria, from 1382 (the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867) until 1918...

Grado Travel Guide, Italy

A beach vacation surrounded by ancient culture

Grado is a town in the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located on a peninsula of the Adriatic Sea between Venice and Trieste. The beach town of Grado sits in the northeast corner of Italy, surrounded by Slovenia, Austria, Venezia and the Adriatic sea. It's a convergence of cultures defined by its traditions, its people and its cuisine.The roots of Grado go back 1,500 years, and the history is told through the old city's Roman-era churches and narrow, cobbled streets.Once...

Udine Travel Guide, Italy

The historical capital of Friuli

Udine (Friulian Udin, Slovene Videm, German Weiden, Latin Utinum) is a city in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps (Alpi Carniche), less than 40 km from the Slovenian border. Its population was 99,030 in 2008, and that of its urban area was 174,000.Udine is the historical capital of Friuli. The area has been inhabited since the Neolithic age, and was later, most likely, settled by Celts. After the fall of the Western Roman...

Lignano Sabbiadoro Travel Guide, Italy

Developed in the early 20th century

Lignano Sabbiadoro is a town and commune in the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy. Lignano Sabbiadoro developed in the early 20th century from some hospitality resorts which originally were reachable only by sea. The first inhabitants came in 1931, after the draining of the nearby marshes, the first road with the nearby commune of Latisana being built in 1926. The name Sabbiadoro (Golden Sand) was added in 1935 for promotional reasons.

Alta Pusteria Travel Guide, Italy

In the heart of the Dolomites, in the eastern part of South Tyrol

Holidays in Alta Pusteria mean great weather, marvellous landscape, high mountain peaks and great skiing on perfectly groomed pistes. But a winter or summer vacation in Alta Pusteria has even more to offer: superb cuisine, excellent wines, good restaurants and great accommodation facilities. No matter what your preferences – comfortable apartment, cosy bed & breakfast, typical guesthouse or 4-star hotel – Alta Pusteria has the right kind of accommodation for you. This beautiful...

Italian Alps Travel Guide, Italy

Six Italian Regions overlooking the Alps: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Trentino - Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia

The Alps are loved by everyone: by sports enthusiasts who wait for the winter months in order to get out onto the downhill slopes or to slide around the upland plains on the cross-country ski circuits; by the mountaineers who go up in summer to almost inaccessible paths that take them to within an inch of infinity; by nature-lovers who can explore the parks, right down to the families and the children who can enjoy the wonderful Italian hospitality in the myriad villages, have fun in the...

Guia de Sicilia

El sol brilla mas fuerte, las sombras son mas oscuras y la vida se vive plenamente

Tears of lava, limestone plains swept by the wind, sunny lands the colour of bronze: one by one the islands decorate the Sicilian coast like a string of pearls on the neck of a beautiful woman. There are fourteen of these daughters of Sicily, not including Motya, which at low tide is sometimes linked to the coast of Marsala. Fourteen paradises of untouched beauty. Some have an African charm, such as the Pelagie, in the province of Agrigento, and Pantelleria in the province of Trapani. Others,...

Basque Country Travel Guide

The Basque Country spans both sides of the French-Spanish border

The Basque Country spans both sides of the French-Spanish border. Gipuzkoa, Vizcaya and Alava provinces, with a population of 2,098,055 inhabitants make up the Spanish Basque Country which shares character and heritage with the French Basque Country (included in Pyrenees Atlantiques together with Bearn).The Basque language, the Euskara, is clamed to be the earliest of European Languages. In Spain, since 1979 the Basque Country has a Statute of Autonomy that facilitates it to have a Basque...

Basque Coast Travel Guide

The shoreline from Bilbao, east into neighboring Guipuzcoa province to Getaria and San Sebastian

The shoreline from Bilbao around the coast of Vizcaya, east into neighboring Guipuzcoa province to Getaria and San Sebastian and the River Adour, separating Bayonne and Biarritz from the Landes in the north is a succession of colorful ports, ocher beaches, and green hills. Graceful, chic San Sebastián invites you to slow down, stroll the beach, and wander the streets. The Cantabrian Sea and the Pyrenees create the backdrop of a landscape composed of all shades of green,...

Gipuzkoa Region Travel Guide

The Gipuzkoa Coast is not your typical tourist destination for sunny beaches

The Gipuzkoa Coast is not your typical tourist destination for \'sunny beaches\'. However, its 17 beaches are clean, comfortable and mostly urban. They are essential to enjoy the beauty of the Cantabrian Sea in the summertime or for relaxing walks by the waves in winter. The beach at Zarautz, the longest, and the beach of La Concha in Donostia, the most elegant, are the two most well known. But there are many others, from Saturrarán (in Mutriku) to Hondarribia, for the visitor to...