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In the heart of Haute-Garonne lies the city of Toulouse, which was named so by the Romans when they conquered it between 120 and 100 BC.Later under the reign of Emperor Augustus the city was moved a few kilometers from the hills to the banksof the Garonne.The first bishop of Toulouse was Saturninus, venerated as a holy martyr by the Catholic Church because after his refusal to sacrifice to Capitoline Jupiter was tied by the pagan residents to the neck of a bull, which running away angry, he tortured him to death in 257 AD. C.The basilica of Saint-Sernin in Toulouse was built on the site where his remains were found.Starting from the 12th century, a new conception of Christianity developed in this region of France, in disagreement with the Roman Catholic Church: Catharism, but the followers of this new religion were persecuted and condemned en masse.Construction work on the Pont Neuf began in 1544, interrupted in 1560 by the Wars of Religion, resumedonly in 1632 and inaugurated in 1659 by King Louis XIV

Capital of the voivodeship of the same name since 1308, Krakow is a city in southern Poland, on the banks of the Vistula River, in a valley at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, known for its well-preserved medieval center and Jewish quarter.The old town is centered on the majestic Rynek Glówny (Market Square). Here are the Mercato dei Tessuti, a large trading center built during the Renaissance, and the Basilica of Santa Maria, a 14th-century Gothic church.An archiepiscopal see since the 10th century, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was bishop from 1964 to 1978.Kraków achieved considerable interest in 1364, when Casimir the Great founded the Jagiellonian University and continued its expansion to become the capital of the Kingdom of Poland and a member of the Hanseatic League, attracting a substantial number of craftsmen and merchants.In 1609 the capital was moved to Warsaw by Sigismund III and from that moment the decline of Krakow began.The Basilica of Santa Maria is the best-known church in the city for the grandeur of its two towers, from which the famous Hejnal is intoned every hour, the traditional "gathering call" never interrupted by the invasion of the Tartars.Since the summer of 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting "Lady with an Ermine" has been kept in the National Museum of Krakow.

The Asolo hills are a group of hills in the province of Treviso and appear as a chain of seven mountains divided by small valleys. The maximum altitude is reached from the Collalto mountain with 496 meters and the lowest from the hill San Martino with 379 meters. The northern slope is connected to the southern one by the Mostacin Forcella, the pass that is located towards the halfway of the chain. They present themselves as the first impact of transition from the Veneto plain to the Treviso mountain area.The medieval village of Asolo, located at the foot of the Rocca Braida, a fortress dated between the 12th and 13th centuries, is the main center and the guide from the western side of the entire hill chain.The Venetian Caterina Cornaro, formerly Queen of Cyprus, was named Lady of Asolo from the Serenissima Republic of Venice in 1489 and lived in the castle, which now bears her name, preserving the title and rank of queen. At her court Caterina attracted artists and writers, including Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto and Pietro Bembo, who here composed and set "Gli Asolani", his most famous work.The favorable climate and the serenity of the places attracted over the years numerous illustrious men including the British Robert Browning, where he composed his last lyric "Asolando", the English traveler Freya Stark and the Italian actress Eleonora Duse, who chose Asolo to live forever, oriented towards the Monte Grappa.

Wroclaw is the historical capital of Silesia, on the banks of the Oder River. In various eras it was part of Poland, Bohemia, Prussia and Germany. Only in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, it returned to Poland.Silesia, border region between Slavic and Germanic peoples for a long time, it was the scene of serious conflicts which culminated in the twentieth century with the tragic Nazi and Communist persecutions against the relative political opposition.The anti-Communist movements of the eighties were remembered by the numerous gnome statues that replaced graffiti written on the walls of the city in contempt of the power imposed by Soviet domination. Now those bronze statues that represent nice figures engaged in normal daily activities became the symbol of Wroclaw. Even the 14 bronze statues that sink and re-emerge near a crossing of center want to remember the martial law proclaimed by General Jaruzelski in 1981 and revoked two years later.Wroclaw is a Polish city still little known to mass tourism, but these pictures testify to the presence of a noble architecture that deserves to be known and appreciated more, thanks also to the romantic banks of the Oder River which reflect the intense swirl of its colors.

The sandy embrace that protects the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic sea stretches from Chioggia to Jesolo Lido (Veneto), interrupted only by a few marine and river outlets. But only Jesolo Lido directs all its length at noon, twelve kilometers of golden beach, which the sun kisses relentlessly from dawn to dusk, where the tide rises and falls drawing the double damp and burning band every day.Closed between the river Piave to the east and the Sile to the west, Jesolo Lido sparkles all its jewels among the squares Rivoalto, Milan, Tommaseo, Drago, Carducci, Mazzini, Aurora, Marina and Nember. Each of these squares is linked to a district of fire and flames in the summer time, due to the extreme vitality of the holiday makers and the luminous heat mitigated by the sea air.From the mid-nineteenth century only the Lighthouse, erected on the ancient mouth of the Piave (now they flow the waters of Sile), dominated the blazing Adriatic beach, but from the beginning of the sixties the condominium Airone arose, of thirteen floors, the first of a long series of skyscrapers of Jesolo Lido.The Lido of Jesolo is considered the longest pedestrian coast in Europe, populated by over one thousand two hundred shops, bars and restaurants that give a dreamlike atmosphere to its commercial street, via Bafile above all, for all children who do not want to grow up.The images collected in this book hope to convey the same emotions that you experience while living even a few days in the magical world of Jesolo Lido.

It is the magical Prague, full of lights and enchanting colors that are reflected in the glorious Vltava, where the Charles Bridge stretches out to embrace the two lavish shores, the only bridge that can only be traveled on foot, where is heard truly human music of real instruments and where talented artists create true street art. And then Mala Strana, the Castle, the palaces, the parks, the vast square where the Astronomical Clock stands out proudly, which from the fifteenth century it every hour put on a ghostly animation, a time for the peasants, now for the fascinated gaze of tourists.Prague, former capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, since 1993 the capital of the Czech Republic, slowly growing over nine hills and surrounded by a hundred towers. The Wenceslas Square, now sacred to the citizens of Prague, it saw the declaration of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 after being freed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Then the Prague Spring in 1968 with the terrible Soviet repression, followed by the protest movements culminating in the dramatic suicide of the nineteen-year-old student Jan Palach, immolated in the flames in 1969. It followed only twenty years later the Velvet Revolution, the political process that forever dissolved the tyrannical communist regime.Prague was also a center of high European culture, where the theologian Jan Hus, rector of the University of Prague, promoted a religious movement considered the first forerunner of the Protestant Reformation. Excommunicated by the Catholic Church and condemned by the Council of Constance, he was burned at the stake in 1411. In 1621 the Protestants of Bohemia began to be persecuted and those who did not join Catholicism were forced to emigrate to France, a country better disposed to religious tolerance. Among these, many students Bohemians of the University of Prague attended the Sorbonne in Paris, where they brought many of their ways of life that were soon imitated by other students. Over the centuries that lifestyle remained and with it the name of Bohémien.The Prague writer Franz Kafka, considered one of the greatest literary geniuses in the world, is also world renowned.Besides being a magical city in itself, Prague is truly considered the capital of magic, where many astrologers and occult operators specializing in the practice of white magic are still present.There is nothing left to praise but the magnificent Prague beer, famous all over the world for a long time, as well as its characteristic cuisine, whose recipes accompany almost all the photos in this collection.

The Montello (Veneto, Italy) is a modest hill with a compact shape in the province of Treviso. For a good stretch of the northern and eastern side it accompanies the river Piave up to Nervesa della Battaglia, then from here the southern side faces the plain surrounded by the villages of Bavarìa, Giavera, Selva, Volpago, Venegazzù and Montebelluna.Massif entirely wooded, the Montello has been divided into twenty-one areas of land from the Serenissima Republic by forest control needs (to supply the Arsenal and foundation piles) called "prese", almost parallel to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the massive, separated by as many narrow roads indicated with a number and dedicated to the heroic places and characters of the Great War.Except on Sundays, these little streets, often still unpaved, are practically deserted and characterize the extraordinary essence of Montello as an island of silence, traveled only by cyclists in training and by a few walkers.In addition to the Certosa di San Girolamo and the abbey of Sant'Eustachio, the Montello is remembered above all for the strenuous defense along the Piave line in the First World War with numerous military monuments, including the Sacrario del Montello, built near the place where it fell the plane of Francesco Baracca.A few years ago it gained considerable fame also for the vineyards from which the Prosecco DOCG wine is made.

Cortina d'Ampezzo, also known as the pearl of the Dolomites, is known throughout the world for the incomparable charm of its peaks that manifest the phenomenon of enrosadira, particular reddening of rocks at dawn and sunset. By far more enchanting is the pink color as human skin that acquires at noon in the luminous days of May.Populated In ancient times by the Reti and Celts, it was occupied in the imperial age by the Romans. This contact is documented by presence of the Ladin language, still spoken by the majority of the Cortinesi. Southern bridgehead of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 1511 to 1918, inserted between the Carnia of the Venice Republic and the Holy Roman Empire of the bishops of Brixen, Cortina became part of the Kingdom of Italy fifty-two years after the Veneto, at the end of the First World War. Just in this period of time it became the favorite holiday resort of theMiddle European nobility, experiencing a sort of golden age never known by the neighboring regions.Almost all the photos are accompanied by the best recipes of the Cadore tradition, such as the famous first courses: bigoli with duck, casunzièi, chenédi, pendolón; the enchanting seconds: stewed venison, pastin, péndole; the tasty side dishes: chanterelles and porcini mushrooms, malga cheeses, potatoes all'ampezzana; the wonderful desserts: carfogn, fartaies, nighele, peta, smòrm with apples, zopes and the incomparable barancio liqueur.

Pula (Croatia) is the historical chief town of Istria, erected by Romans in the first century BC on the peninsula inhabited by Histri, who had their center in Nesazio, near Pula. Shortly afterwards the city was incorporated by Augusto into the X Regio Venetia et Histria in order to create a bridgehead easily accessible by sea, together with Aquileia, to defend oriental boundaries of the nascent Roman Empire from the constant barbaric pressure.It is possible that Pola, not by chance also widespread on seven hills like Rome, had to relive in the design of its founders the splendor of Imperial Rome, with the erection of the most significant buildings of the Urbe, such as the Arch of Sergi, the Temple of Augustus and well two theaters. Instead, the Amphitheater of Pola, ended in 14 AD (contemporary of Verona's Arena) was erected almost sixty years before the Flavian Amphitheater in Rome (called the Colosseum), started by Vespasian in 72 AD and inaugurated by Tito in 80 AD. These photos want to document the oldest historical monuments in Pula together with the element that determined the primary development since antiquity: the bay on Adriatic Sea, object also of commercially and militarily activities by Serenissima Republic of Venice for over five centuries.Almost all the photos are accompanied by the best recipes of the Istrian tradition, such as the very first courses: bobici, fuzi sa paprikas kokoska, jota, manestra Istarska, pljukanci, posutice, strukli, the very tasty second courses: cevapcici, peka, sarma, bacalar Istarska, dagnje Busara, lignje s krumpira, skampi na buzaru, srdele s lukom, the delightful side dishes: fritaja s divljim sparogama, punjene articoke and the peerless sweets: palacinke na refoska, pinca, strudla.