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Arttrav.com announces an Italy travel article writing contest with book and bag prizes and a grand prize from Context Travel. The deadline is (now extended to) September 27 2009. There is a category for student entries. Max 1000 words, full contest details at www.arttrav.com/contest.

Art, music and gastronomy to experience again the Middle Ages in Siena, 700 years after the relase of the Sienese Constitution....Between September 2009 and May 2010, on the occasion of the seven-hundredth anniversary of the Constitution, Siena offers a list of events to enhance the town as an artistic, social and cultural model of the Middle Ages and in particular of the Gothic age (XIV century).For the first time Siena, town of the Palio horse race, opens to the...

Patti Smith’s concert of the 10th of September 1979 was an historical event not only for the 50,000 strong audience, that had the opportunity to see on stage someone that in the years was going to acquire and iconic status for the American alternative culture, and at the time high priestess of an entire generation’s myths: as a matter of fact that memorable concert was also the peak for Patti Smith’s first artistic phase, before retiring to her private life just to re-emerge many years later as a new and more mature and unconventional intellectual.

On September 13 the stage ‘Cerreti’ of Florence will host ‘the debut game of the national team to World Cup of baseball.

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Today you will have the chance to shop ‘til you drop without ever having to worry about driving and finding a parking spot! Your driver will pick you up at your accommodations and bring you to visit the designer outlet factory stores near Florence.It is just a comfortable 50 minute ride along the highway that runs through the Tuscan countryside until you reach the small town of Montevarchi.This is where the Space Outlet of Prada (Prada, Miu Miu, Helmut Lang, and Church shoes) is located.

More than 600 species of animals await you in the marvellous Zoological Gardens of Pistoia.Opened in 1970, the zoo expands into a large quantity of vegetation that continually restores itself. Biodiversity Conservation is one of the primary objectives of the Zoological Garden.

Medieval Florence was enclosed in curtain walls that contained today's historical center. In the last century, restructuring brought the city to be the capital of the Kingdom of Italy and the city walls were demolished, with the exclusion of the gates.The entire line on the right bank of the Arno was replaced with the actual Avenues of circumrotation. The part of city situated on the left bank of the river Arno, called 'Oltrarno', still has notable traces of the city walls. Today the goal of restructuring will bring the reopening of some lines of the watch walk, from which it will be possible to enjoy a new vision of the historical beauties of the city.

This is perhaps one of the most genuine “pasta asciutte” from Lazio. This kind of sauce, with which only the “bucatini” can be dressed, takes the name from the town of Amatrice. The bucatini is a long pasta, like holed spaghetti.

What is the Cinque Terre?Five miles of spectacular rocky coast, two promontories, thousands of kilometers of dry walls built on terraces cultivated with vineyards, five medieval fishing villages built on rock…add to this the incredible color of the sea and the sky, and you may understand what the Cinque Terre is.Monterosso, Vernazza, Cornaglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore are their names.