Countess Teresa Guiccioli profoundly influenced Lord Byron, leading him to Ravenna and the magnificent Guiccioli Palace. This historic building has now been transformed into a museum dedicated to Byron and the Italian unification movement, the Risorgimento – the Museo Byron e del Risorgimento.
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English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died on 8th July, 1822 while travelling from Livorno in Tuscany to Lerici in Liguria. He was sailing his boat, Don Juan, in in the Gulf of La Spezia.
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There I was, half-way between the North Pole and the Equator. I hadn’t intended to be straddling the 45th parallel but there I was, at Taglio di Po. It was 2013 and I had read in the local paper about the official opening of the cycle route that ran along the river Po, past Taglio […]
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