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Restaurant Il Latini Florence

Mónica Boixeda Florentine, Food and Drink in Florence, Only-Be

Il Latini is a traditional restaurant with exquisite dishes and delicious wines where you can have a nice time with your partner or friends.

Bikemi Milan

Mónica Boixeda Milanese, Only-Be

Bikemi is an impressive bicycle rental network in Milan. Booking isn´t necessary.

Magical and beloved sites in Rome

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

If there´s a city where it´s hard to point out a series of magical sites, that city is Rome, and not exactly due to its lack of them but because of the opposite, because of the overwhelmingness of them. However it´s not easy to leave aside a mention to the Keats and Shelley House-Museum (http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/), not only for its delicate beauty and its exceptional location next to the impressive baroque white stairs of the unforgettable Piazza di Spagna, which is impossible to determine whether it´s more famous or more beautiful, but also for being perhaps the biggest pagan temple erected to Romanticism, a pilgrimage centre for the followers of an impulse that shaped modern sensitiveness. Among true relics such as a lock of Keats´ hair and his death mask or the urn that contains the ashes of Shelley´s body – whose cadaver was so badly disfigured by birds and fish that he could only be identified thanks to the Keats book that he had with him at the time of his drowning-, burned by the seaside in a Greek-style bonfire in a ceremony officiated by Byron which is worthy of being labelled legendary, the house contains valuable mementos, such as personal letters, documents and an extraordinary and extensive library. Equally as emotive, for reasons perhaps not far away from the aforementioned romantic spirit, the Mausoleum of Augustus (Piazza Augusto Imperatore/via Ripetta) is a perfect reminder of the vanity of all things and the devastating effect of the passing of time. It´s hard to understand at first sight, that this forlorn brick cylinder, originally covered in pillars and marble statues, flanked by two... read more