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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 32: Nice Nice has been French for one hundred and sixty-six years. Nice was Italian-speaking and Savoyard for four hundred and seventy-two years before that. The most famous avenue in the city is named after the English, who paid for it. Nice did not […]
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 31: Corsica Napoleon Bonaparte was born on a French island whose first language was Italian, fourteen months after the island had been French at all. Corsica — Sold to the Kingdom of France On the 15th of August 1769, in the small port town
Corsica 🇫🇷 How an Island Conquered France Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 30: Sanremo A flower town with a casino. A casino with a singing competition. A singing competition that, by 1956, the entire continent had agreed to copy. Sanremo — Riviera dei Fiori In the late nineteenth century, on a small stretch of the western
Sanremo 🇮🇹 Why Italy Sings Here Every February? Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 29: Lago di Garda At the foot of mountains where snow still falls in winter, the same lake grows lemons. Geography this stubborn deserves an explanation. Lago di Garda — A tongue of the Adige Glacier Lago di Garda was carved out of solid
Lago di Garda 🇮🇹 Italy’s Mediterranean Without the Sea Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 28: Bolzano The waiter took my order in German. The receipt was in Italian. The sign on the bakery across the street was in both. None of this is unusual here. Bolzano did not become Italy when Italy arrived. Bolzano: The Italian City That
Bolzano 🇮🇹 The City That Never Picked a Side Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 27: Venice The city was put here on purpose. The lagoon did not want it. The Venetians, for eleven hundred years, did not care. Republic of Venice — La Serenissima Sometime in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, while the western Roman Empire was
Venice 🇮🇹 An Argument With Gravity Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 26 In the year Brunelleschi finished his dome, the entire population of Florence was about forty thousand. That is fewer people than will read this article in its first week. Florence Produced the Renaissance In the early fifteenth century, the small Tuscan city of
Florence 🇮🇹 How the City That Invented the Modern World Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 25 People in Sardinia live longer than almost anywhere on Earth Sardinia — Island That Declined to Participate For roughly seven centuries, between 238 BC and the collapse of the Western Empire in the fifth century AD, Sardinia was a Roman province. The Romans
Sardinia 🇮🇹 The Wine That Adds Years to Your Life (According to Science) Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 24 The city that built the world we still live in. Walk through it once and you understand — Rome didn’t fall. Rome simply spread out. Rome has been continuously a major city In the centre of Rome, scattered across nearly every neighbourhood of
Rome 🇮🇹 The Empire That Never Actually Fell Read More »
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 23 What you see at Amalfi is the half of a medieval republic the wave did not take Amalfi was a country Before it was a postcard, Amalfi was a country. The Republic of Amalfi was founded around the year 839 AD on the
Amalfi 🇮🇹 Italy’s Forgotten Maritime Empire Read More »