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Touring Club Italiano

Touring Club Italiano is a non-profit association, with the aim of promoting tourism throughout Italy. Today, with its 280,000 members, it is one of the most registered tourist institutions in Italy. In particular, it intends to collaborate in the protection and education to a proper enjoyment of the Italian heritage of history, art and nature, which it considers as a whole irreplaceable asset to be passed on to future generations. www.touringclub.it

In Italy we have a real veneration for St. Anthony the Abbot (not to be confused with Anthony the patron saint of Padua): let’s review the dozens of events organized in his honor on January 17th, the date of his death, from Lombardy to Sicily. And yet, reading some hints of his biography one discovers that the saint has no connection with our count...

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There is no doubt that religious festivals represent a large part of the traditional Italian heritage. An expression of faith, of course, but also events with a strong social significance and bond of belonging to the community, especially in the South: Leonardo Sciascia, in "Corda Pazza" (Mad rope), about religious festivals wrote that in Sicily th...

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