Category Archive: Italy travel
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Peter Sommer Travels' tours and cruises in Italy, 2019
As of now, all the tours and cruises we offer in Italy during 2019 are available online. We have worked hard to offer a rich schedule of wonderful experiences, travelling ... Read More
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Exploring Siracusa - language, history and gastronomy
Siracusa is a city of one name and many names: Syrakousai in ancient Greek, Syracusae in Latin, Syracuse in English, Sarausa or Seragusa in the Sicilian dialect and Siracusa in modern ... Read More
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UNESCO World Heritage on our Tours and Cruises in Italy
In two previous posts, we've been celebrating the fact that two of the places we visit on our itineraries (Ephesus being one of them!) have been recently added to the ... Read More
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Impressions of Sicily: Atmospheric and Enigmatic Segesta
Segesta - what a beautiful name (pronounce the "g" like the "g" in "gem" and let the vowels run their course as is proper for an Italian word, especially the ... Read More
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Living on the Edge - Ancient Morgantina on Sicily
In recent posts, I have written about two ancient Greek cities, each of them special and fascinating for its own reasons. The first was Lato in Greece, namely on the ... Read More
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Impressions of Sicily: The Dazzling Beauty of Monreale
As I recently reported, in February I had the opportunity to visit Sicily, helping Michael in preparing his Exploring Sicily tour. Most of the many astonishing sites we saw will ... Read More
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Impressions of Sicily: Stupendous Agrigento (Akragas)
Sicily in February? Not the obvious season for an Italian holiday - and yet, I have just returned from a 6-day stint on the largest island in the Mediterranean. But ... Read More
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The Great Temples of Sicily
There are at least a thousand reasons to visit Sicily, the great island - indeed the largest in the Mediterranean - that forms the triangular football to the boot that ... Read More
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Just back from... the Amalfi Coast
Michael Metcalfe, a core member of the Peter Sommer Travels team, has recently written a guest post for the colleagues at two travel blog sites, Travelspinner (now defunct) and ... Read More
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Amalfi Coast: cruise diary
“Sitting on the deck of the gulet in June 2012, watching the steep and verdant terraced slopes of the Amalfi coast slip by, I can’t help but wonder how this cannot ... Read More