Archive for September, 2008
San Fruttuoso, Liguria
Posted in Liguria30th September, 2008
The coast of Liguria (Italian Riviera) has many serene, undiscovered gems to visit. Few are more serene and lovely than the small village of San Fruttuoso, midway between Portofino and Camogli and on the edge of the sprawling park to which Portofin...
Alassio's fine idea
Posted in Italy,News from Italy andLiguria24th September, 2008
Of all the ways to boost flagging tourism over summer it was arguably one of the most innovative. In the Italian Riviera resort of Alassio – a few miles north of Imperia along Liguria's coast – tourists and other motorists who parked illegally go...
The Obelisk of Axum
Posted in Italy andNews from Italy7th September, 2008
It’s been a 71-year-long odyssey, but the Obelisk of Axum, which for decades stood proudly in Rome, has pride of place once more in its ancestral African home. The 1,700-year-old monument, looted when Italy’s Fascist troops occupied the-then Abyssini...