Patrizia Fabbri

PREFACE Facing the Atlantic, Portugál listens to the sea as to a long-standing friend in whom we have become accustomed to confiding, one who speaks to us by signs, knowing that these will be readily understood in the unique language understood only by oursetves. This retationship goes back a long...

View of Florence Brief historical survey The river Arno cuts its way through the broad plain on which Florence lies, surrounded by the out-hills of the Tusco-Emilian Ap-pennines. Already occupied in prehistoric times, as early as the 8th century B.C. an Italic peoples with a Villanovan culture...

INTRODUCTION ((rj-fhe Magical City", "The Golden City", "The I City of a Hundred Towers", the "Paris of the i East": these are just some of the most common definitions adopted by popular tourist publications when describing Prague, a city of around 1,200,000 inhabitants and, since 1st January...

The Isle of Capri, the "Pearl of the Mediterranean, " in a suggestive view from the Sorrento peninsula. INTRODUCTION In the everchanging and vast panorama of the minor islands of Italy, Capri holds a position of absolute privilege. If on the one hand every island has well-defined...

Die aus dem Meer ragenden Fa raglioni-Fe/ser? sind das Wahrzeichen von Capri. Untén die Ruinen des Römischen Theaters in Benevent. EINFÜHRUNG Abgeleitet von "ager capuanus", der antiken Bezeichnung für den nördlichen Teil der Ebene um Capua und Neapel, versteht man heute unter dem Namen...

INTRODUCTION Le Liban est un petit pays d'une superficie de 10.452 hrí qui s'étend au sud de la Syrie et compte 225 kilometres de côtes sur la Méditerranée orientale. Sa population est de 3.100.000 habitants, en grande majorité arabes avec une présence faible mais bien structurée de...