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Just on the outskirts of Milan there is this amazing abbey, called the Chiaravalle Abbey, which is 900 years old! There are monks living inside who pray, chant and regularly give mass. The abbey was

There's a very small city in the north-east of Italy (practically on the coast of the Adriatic sea) that has a big history. Really big. Ravenna was the last capital of the Roman Empire from the year 402

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Hi, I'm Matteo - and like the title says, I'm a joker, a globetrotter, a meditator, and I've been lost on Steemit for the past three days trying to figure out what it's all about. it's fair to say I'm

In July of 1867 Mark Twain set foot in Europe for the first time, reaching Italy after spending two weeks in France. In his travelogue letters (subsequently collected in his bestseller “The Innocents Abroad”)