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...cultural and culinary attractions of the capital, Palermo, are well documented, but travelers should also make time for Sicily's second city, Catania, and its baroque buildings, made of volcanic stone from nearby Mount Etna. It is the fresh-produce market on the Piazza Carlo Alberto that is this town's real pride and joy, however. Sprawling over 70,000 square meters, the market is so colorful and bustling that it will become your ideal of what a Mediterranean seaside marketplace should be. In the shadow of churches and historic architecture, stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives...
...small-town Italian life. The cultural and culinary attractions of the capital, Palermo, are well documented, but travelers should also make time for Sicily's second city, Catania. Its baroque buildings are made of volcanic stone from nearby Mount Etna. For atmosphere, take in the terrific fish market in Piazza Alonzo di Benedetto. But the town's real pride and joy is its colorful, bustling fresh-produce market on the Piazza Carlo Alberto. Sprawling over 70,000 sq m in the shadow of churches and historic architecture, the market's stalls groan under the weight of mounds of olives, vast...
...mead. The market in Brussels stretches from the 17th century Grand Place to Place Sainte-Catherine with its open-air ice rink; the highlight is the Man?ge d'Andr?a, a surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to cr?che scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall. At the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm...
...Brussels stretches from the 17th century Grand Place to Place Sainte-Catherine with its open-air ice rink; the highlight is the Manège d'Andréa, a surrealist carousel with flying frogs, bionic spacemen and Jules Verne spaceships. In Rome, the market in the baroque Piazza Navona is worth a visit for its first-rate buskers alone. In Naples, the entire Via San Gregorio Armeno is given over to crèche scenes and figurines. The largest of Vienna's markets takes place in front of the Rathaus, or City Hall). At the Skansen open-air museum...
Milan already has a healthy surfeit of cachet, so the opening of the Park Hyatt, just steps away from the Piazza del Duomo, will probably raise few eyebrows among the well-heeled residents of Italy's fashion capital. Everyone else, though, will be pleasantly gob-smacked by this superspiffy 117-room property...