Some 118 islands float on this fairy-tale lagoon, linked by 400 bridges. Each is crammed with dazzling palazzos and heart-stopping art – Venice really is a place like no other.

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This silent and remote land where fresh and salt water meet is one of the most important wetlands for shore-birds and migrating waders in the Mediterranean.

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It's here that you'll find Europe's most compelling archaeological site - the ruins of Pompeii. Sprawling and haunting, the site is a stark reminder of the destructive forces that lie deep inside Vesuvius.

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Naples is raw, high-octane energy, a place of soul-stirring art and panoramas, spontaneous conversations and unexpected, inimitable elegance.

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You can’t go far in Naples without seeing something of Diego Armando Maradona. From a ten-storey mural to a sticker on the back of a road sign, ‘D10S’ (God) is everywhere.

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By terms of history, Arsenal are by far the "Kings of London." No team in the UK's capital has achieved as many domestic titles or overall trophies as the North Londoners.

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The name "Pinzgau" is derived from the Celtic tribe of the Ambisonten (cf. Moosleitner). The counties of Ober, Mittel and Unterpinzgau in Austria were first mentioned in 923.

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Gran Sasso is the highest mountain in the Apennines. Corno Grande reaches 2.912 meters and many others are over 2.500 meters in height.

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Bolzano, the provincial capital of South Tyrol, is anything but provincial. Once a stop on the coach route between Italy and the flourishing Austro-Hungarian Empire, this small city is worldly and engaged, a long-time conduit between cultures that has more recently become home to Europe's first trilingual university.

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Western outpost of the fossil archipelago of the Dolomites, spaced from the rest of the geological sisters of over 30 km as the crow flies, the Brenta group is wild and majestic.

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