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    Ο κόλπος Amalfi (Napoli)

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    Braies, Bolzano.

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      Cinque Terre (Bόρεια Ιταλία)

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        Manarola, La Spezia (Βόρεια Ιταλία)

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          Σαρδηνία (Νότια Ιταλία)

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            #6
            Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

            Πάμε Ιταλία;
            Why don't we go to Italy?






            Intimate arias unfold on the steps of Teatro La Fenice, Venice's opera house. Trapped in the myth of her lustrous beauty, Venice beguiles, and remains elusive. "She is like a girlfriend who drives you crazy,' sighs a bargeman. 'She's the girl you couldn't leave if you tried."

            —From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.

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              Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

              Πάμε Ιταλία;
              Why don't we go to Italy?






              Adrift in bliss, Venetian newlyweds ride a gondola down the Grand Canal. In a city with 42 boating associations, rowing is serious business. �You should see no visible effort,� says an aficionado, �just beautiful movement.�

              —From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.

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                Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                Πάμε Ιταλία;
                Why don't we go to Italy?






                Panache goes on parade during Venice's Carnival. Today's pageantry lasts only ten days—a shadow of the two-month-long bacchanals of the 1700s.

                —From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.

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                  Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                  Πάμε Ιταλία;
                  Why don't we go to Italy?






                  Mirrored in troubling waters, the Basilica of San Marco floats over the central square, Venice's lowest point. High waters are a recurring fact of life in the city, which has sunk five inches [13 centimeters] during the past century even as the sea has risen four [10 centimeters]. Venice is still sinking, albeit more slowly.

                  —From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.

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                    Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                    Πάμε Ιταλία;
                    Why don't we go to Italy?






                    Flamboyant, radiantly beautiful, Venice owes her grandeur to the sea, a bond celebrated yearly through regattas such as the Vogalonga. Today it is a human tide that washes over her—millions come to capture a glimmer of her charms.

                    —From "Venice: More Than a Dream," February 1995, National Geographic magazine.

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                      Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                      Πάμε Ιταλία;
                      Why don't we go to Italy?






                      Julius Caesar, depicted here in his military attire, extended the Roman Republic to the Atlantic Ocean with his conquest of Gallia Comata�Gaul, in what is now France. Caesar became the sole ruler of Rome following the first Roman civil war, after which he had himself named ruler for life.

                      Caesar's assassination at the hands of his close friend Marcus Brutus spawned Rome's second civil war. Brutus and his co-conspirators were attempting to save the republic from dictatorship. Instead, they ushered in the Roman Empire under Caesar�s nephew and adopted son, Octavian, who would become known as Emperor Caesar Augustus.

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                        #12
                        Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                        Πάμε Ιταλία;
                        Why don't we go to Italy?






                        Jutting out toward the Aksu River, Turkey, this ancient aqueduct is a small portion of the hundreds of miles of aqueducts built by the Romans to convey water throughout the sprawling empire.

                        These monuments to archaeology and hydrology remain among the most widely recognized of the remaining Roman architecture. The Romans were not the first to use such technology�aqueducts were devised by inhabitants of the Middle East centuries earlier. But the Roman design allowed a particularly advanced form of transferring water across often vast distances.

                        With the fall of the Roman Empire, this sophisticated engineering knowledge was lost until the 19th century.

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                          Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                          Πάμε Ιταλία;
                          Why don't we go to Italy?






                          In a frieze in the fifth-century B.C. Tomb of the Leopards in Tarquinia, Italy, an Etruscan couple admires an egg, symbol of immortality.

                          The Etruscans have long been the magical mystery people of Italian antiquity. They rose from the mist of prehistory around 900 B.C. and for some 500 years dominated most of the country, from Rome to the Po Valley. Yet, unlike the Romans, they left behind a sparse written record�no heroic poems, no histories, no literature, only short official or religious inscriptions. Etruscan art survived largely because it was buried in tombs.

                          —Text adapted from "The Eternal Etruscans," National Geographic magazine, June 1988

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                            #14
                            Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                            Πάμε Ιταλία;
                            Why don't we go to Italy?






                            The House of the Tragic Poet, in Pompeii, received its name from this mosaic depicting actors performing a Greek drama. Mosaics like this are key to modern historians� understanding of ancient Roman life.

                            Originally located in the tablinium, or main room, of a Roman house, the artwork can now be found in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.

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                              #15
                              Πάμε Ιταλία; - Why don't we go to Italy?

                              Πάμε Ιταλία;
                              Why don't we go to Italy?






                              Out of a timeless, musty dark, an ancient Roman victim of Mount Vesuvius stares into the 20th century, her teeth clenched in agony. Nearby lie charred and tangled remains of scores of others buried in the wet volcanic earth.

                              The scene is Herculaneum, lesser known sister city of Pompeii. Both cities were destroyed by the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius.

                              —Text adapted from "The Dead Do Tell Tales at Vesuvius," National Geographic magazine, June 1970

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