If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the romantic poet Of all the birthday parties I’ve been to, this is ...

It receives fewer tourists than the great cities of the Italian Renaissance, but Ravenna has its own ... Next door, the "soaring" Basilica di San Vitale has "shimmering" mosaics of Emperor ...

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