"It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
-Harry S. Truman 33rd US President
One of the most breathtaking, diverse, and culturally rich countries in the world, Italia has for centuries served as the concluding chapter in the education of Europe's wealthy elite who believed that a grand tour of Italia was the proper finish to a well-rounded education.
Common itineraries encompassed the major art cities of Firenze, Roma, and Venezia. Whereas the true appassionati went even further to include the almost equally splendid smaller art cities of Cremona, Mantova, Padova, Palermo, Siena, Taormina, Torino, Verona and Vicenza.
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