Italy

A collection of 8 places curated by Jordan Spencer

Places in this collection

  1. The Tarot Garden

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    58011 Capalbio, Province of Grosseto, Italy

    An open-air museum featuring eccentric mosaic sculptures up to 15 meters tall, each representing a major arcana from the tarot. The artist, Niki de Saint Phalle, lived within one of the sculptures during its 17-year construction. The entrance is a circular hole in a wall, designed to feel like a threshold to another world.

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  2. Civita di Bagnoregio

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    01022 Bagnoregio, VT, Italy

    Fairytale village in Europe

    Civita di BagnoregioView on Google Maps

  3. Bologna

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    Bologna, Metropolitan City of Bologna, Italy

    The food capital of Italy, where Italians actually want to eat. Features porticoed streets, a university town energy, and no tourist fatigue.

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  4. Matera

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    75100 Matera, Province of Matera, Italy

    A city carved into rock, continuously inhabited for 9,000 years, looking like a film set used for productions like Jerusalem. Visually arresting.

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  5. Reschensee

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    39027 Graun im Vinschgau, Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol

    A lake in Italy hiding an entire village submerged since the 1950s due to a hydroelectric dam project. The 14th-century bell tower of the original village remains standing. Visitors can paddleboard or kayak to the tower in summer, or walk on the frozen lake in winter.

    ReschenseeView on Google Maps

  6. Craco

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    75010 Craco, Province of Matera, Italy

    A medieval ghost town perched on a 400-meter cliff in southern Italy, inhabited for almost 1500 years. It was evacuated in 1963 due to destabilized ground from infrastructure work, followed by a flood and earthquake. It has been used as a filming location for movies like 'Passion of the Christ' and 'Quantum of Solace'.

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  7. Il Tiramisù di Giulietta

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    Via Cappello, 21, 37121 Verona VR, Italy

    A cheaper way to see Romeo & Juliet's Balcony by paying €6 for a tiramisu and access to a viewpoint upstairs, instead of €12 per person for the official balcony entrance. The tiramisu is also good.

    Il Tiramisù di GiuliettaView on Google Maps

  8. Portmeirion

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    Penrhyndeudraeth, UK

    An Italian-inspired village in Wales.

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