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Entries Tagged as 'Siena'

Tuscany Is the “Twilight” of Travel Destinations

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Wary of the advice of others

I love Siena. When I visited the magnificent Piazza del Campo, I wished we could have something similar in the U.S. When I was there, I fell in love with the little symbols of the contrade hidden all over the city, tucked onto buildings and gleaming out at me from metalwork around the city. In [...]

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Piazza Times Square

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, The point of travel, Urban archipelagos

This recent piece in New York magazine about the new, pedestrian-friendly Times Square had me thinking: Why don’t more American cities think of creating something similar? It’s not like New York is a natural.

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