High up in the northern Piedmont region of Italy, Orta San Guilio is as close to the Swiss border as it is to Milan. Almost an island, but not quite, this Italian mountain town is built on a peninsula which juts out into Lake Orta. A more scenic place would be hard to find. Orta ...
Flag of Italy Image:source Milan had the privilege of seeing it for the first time in November 1796. It was Napoleon himself who delivered a banner with the colors white (center), red (right) and green (left), to a corps of volunteers of the Lombard Legion, 3,500 soldiers who would ...
Last summer, I watched the 4thof July fireworks from the top ofMeridian Hill Park. It reminds me a lot of the parks I saw in Italy, and it’s crazy that this beautiful green space is randomly in the middle of Columbia Heights. On one end of the park is a 13-basin cascading fountai...