The Italian Job - Italian Movie Trips
Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron try to track down gold they helped to steal in Venice and then lost to double-crossing partners. Locations in Italy: Canazei Canazei is a small and cozy ski center with the
additional attraction of several area chairlifts and hiking trails to
the peaks of the tallest, most spectacular of the Dolomite mountains.
The drive through the valleys leading up to Canazei follow the Dolomite
Road, promising world-renowned panoramas at every turn. Genoa This busy port town, with its narrow and seedy medieval
streets opening into broad, pedestrian-only piazzas ringed with palaces,
was the home of Christopher Columbus and has drifters from the world
over. Recently refurbished as one of the Cultural Capitals of Europe,
2004, Genoa has the second biggest aquarium in the world and easily the
busiest and best regulated passeggiata in Italy, where the streets grow
thicker with slow-moving people than Manhattan at mid-day and abruptly
empty into private parties at the appointed hour. Don't miss the
artistic excesses in the palaces of Andrea Doria and others and the
large frescoes depicting the life of Columbus. Trento On the bank of the river Adige, with excellent views of
surrounding mountains, Trento is where the Council of Trent met to
undertake the wildly popular counter-reformation. You can visit the
extensive public gardens, take a cable card from the train station to a
nearby mountaintop and in the summer, see plays and music performed in
Trento's many castles, or join a popular wine festival lasting several
months. Venice For centuries this town interconnected by its series of
canals and small bridges was also the most important and opulent of the
many warring Italian republics. As a crossroads for international trade
and boundary adjustments of reigning empires, Venice reflects the
influence of many and the dominion of none. Home to both Marco Polo and
Byzantine churches (such as St. Mark's Basilica), Venice has the most
perfectly balanced , indescribably exquisite public square and setting,
and that in a country which has essentially perfected the transformation
of public life into art.
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