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San Siro is a small village too small to call a village in the mountains between Parma and Genoa situated at 666 metres above sea level, or 2,185 feet before Ricardo went metric and Riccardo became Ricardo. Italians call it a frazione. When Giovanni Ricca....

San Siro is a small village too small to call a village in the mountains between Parma and Genoa situated at 666 metres above sea level, or 2,185 feet before Ricardo went metric and Riccardo became Ricardo. Italians call it a frazione. When Giovanni Ricca....

In the Mabinogion, “The Dream of Macsen Wledig” is a romantic tale relating how Magnus Maximus, future emperor of Rome, dreamed of travelling across the sea and crossing a mountain range until he came to a castle near the mouth of a river. In the great ha....

Spello was originally a Roman settlement located along the Via Flaminia. The ancient Roman road leads from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to Ariminum (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. The town’s stone houses spread out over a spur of the Monte ....