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The signs of the Renaissance are everywhere in Italy. Grand piazzas and palazzos. Metal-spiked doors. Looming archways. And, of course, all that ever-present art in the churches and galleries. But in ...

Though home to the gorgeously frescoed Palazzo Schifanoia, and in its day, heart of the Italian peninsula’s cultural, intellectual and literary life, Ferrara is a little somnolent and withdrawn, ...

Italy is one of the major European tourist destinations for Brits and people from around the world. Many visitors to the Mediterranean country head to places like Rome, Venice, and Naples, but there ...