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10 Best Places To Stay In Terracina, Italy

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The azure sea hugging the shore like two long lost friends meeting after a long time under the beautiful ambiance of the golden sun, highlighting Mount Circeo . Welcome to Hotel Torre Del Sole , where you are greeted with tempting visual treats along with attentive service that promises you a dream vacation of a lifetime. Hotel Torre del Sole , offers an elegant space, positioned directly in front of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The hotel leaves no stone unturned in providing their guests with amenities like a private beach, swimming pool, beach bar and entertainment on the beach, taking full advantage of the priceless vista. You receive a buffet style breakfast and the restaurant serves Mediterranean specialties at lunch and dinner. Through summer, meals are served out on the veranda, so you enjoy your meals in sheer heaven. Bedrooms are just to crash in, but then, what are you doing in the bedroom when you have the beautiful beach to take advantage of? Torre del Sole Address : Via Ponti...

Beaches and the beauty of doing nothing

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L' amore alla spiaggia : Love at the beach. (Photo: Michael Kiefer/The Republic) In Italian they call it Il bel far niente, “the beauty of doing nothing.” It was hot and humid in Rome, and the city was lousy with sweaty tourists. I’d finished my business in Italy, and had scheduled some beautiful-do-nothing time in Sperlonga, a beach town about 80 miles south of the capital in Italy's Lazio region.  Sperlonga is a medieval village built atop a cliff overlooking a stretch of the Mediterranean known as the Tyrrhenian Sea. Though it’s well-known in Italy, most Americans have never heard of the town, and those you might encounter there probably work in Europe or have family ties there that bring them back. Still, it’s one of the Borghi piu belli d’Italia , “the most beautiful villages of Italy,” designated by the Borghi Italia Tourist Network , an organization dedicated to bringing visitors to Italy’s lesser-known cultural wonders. Sperlonga fits the description. The old city is...