A Visitor’s Guide to Mexico City, Mexico – Mexico City is a history-lover’s dream: culture, heritage, exquisite cuisines, and historical monuments abound in this city that was built over top of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs. In the southeast corner of the center of the city lies the Zocalo, or pedestal of the city. …
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A Bucket List Visit to the True Italy – Tarquinia
Italy is certainly on the list of many travelers who long to see the world. This can be evidenced by the scores of tourists you’ll bump into on the crowded streets of Rome. But if the idea of being shoved along en masse down the streets of Florence and Venice is not your idea of …
Castle Porrona – Tuscany, Italy
Porrona Village was built around the 1100s, and for five hundred years this region belonged to the two largest Sienese families of nobility, the Tolomeis and the Piccolominis. In 1894, a French noble, Pietro de Rochefort, purchased the village and all of the buildings. Porrona remains a lovely village that is not inhabited by many …
Breathtaking Tinago Falls
Tinago Falls is one of the premier vacation destinations in the Philippines. Known as the City of Majestic Waterfalls, Iligan in Lanao del Norte is home to this beautiful cascade. The falls got their name from a word in the Tagalog language that means “hidden,” and it aptly applies: once you have made your way …
Amberley Castle – West Sussex, England
Amberley Castle’s lands were given to Bishop Wilfrid as a gift from Caedwalla the King of Wessex in 683. The buildings that are now part of the castle originated as a log-framed lodge built by Bishop Luffa in 1103 as a respite for hunting. The next 400 years would see this mere hunting lodge become …
Deception Island – Southern Antarctica
As its name suggests, this is one island that’s not what it appears. Its interior port lies protected by a landmass in the shape of a horseshoe and has afforded safe harbor when sailors have found themselves lost in the sometimes tumultuous seas surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula. Therein lies the deception, as the history of …