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Save your guide to Catania, Sicily:
1. Piazza del Duomo
2. Saint Agatha’s Cathedral
3. Diocesan Museum of Catania
4. Fontana Dell’Amenano
5. Palazzo Biscari
6. Cave Dell’Ostelo Via Agota hostel / A Putia dell’ostelo restaurant
7. Fish Market La Pescheria
8. Castello Ursino
9. Chiesa della Badia di Sant’Agata (and visit terrace nicknamed ‘Un Balcone sul Barocco di Catania’)
10. Teatro Massimo Bellini
11. Villa Bellini
12. Porta Uzeda
13. Roman Theatre of Catania and Odeon
14. Termes around the city: Le Terme della Rotonda, Roman Thermae of Santa Maria dell’Indirizzo, and Achilean baths
15. Benedictine Monastery of San Nicolò l’Arena
16. Church of San Nicolò l’Arena
17. Porta Garibaldi
18. Amphitheatre of Catania
19. Via Etnea
20. Cafe Prestipino: try their their strawberry cake and cassata!
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My ultimate guide to Seoul goes live in a few days, stay tuned!
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Postcards from Sicily part 1❤️ which one is your favorite?
Free guide to Catania is available via the link in bio!
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Our last trip of 2024: we returned to Sicily, haven’t been there for about 18 years 😱 save your hotel to stay in Catania (and my guide to Catania is live at Purpurpurpur.co.uk, link in bio)
📍Palazzo Sangiorgio #purpurpurpur_hotels
We stayed in Palazzo Sangiorgio, a luxury five star hotel that opened only recently.
Our room with a grand jacuzzi in its living room was both traditional and modern, overlooking the inner courtyard of the hotel.
Breakfasts were really good – considering Italian love to have a minimalist first meal of the day. The hotel was located very conveniently, a 5 min walk from the Cathedral square, and had great stylistic touches paying homage to Sicilian traditions.
There also was a restaurant in the hotel with a good Italian menu.
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Cherry blossoms are coming to South Korea in just two months! Send to someone who loves k-pop, k-drama or tteokbokki✨✨✨
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Throwback to my trip to China featuring: Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, Chengdu, Zhujiajiao, Macau and Hong Kong.
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A must do activity in Hanoi!
📍Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, a five-star hotel and an important historical landmark.
We went there for an afternoon tea, and it was a pretty good classic one. The territory of the hotel is vast, it has many shops and Angelina cafe.
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This year we returned to Qatar for the second time and had been exploring this country for 1,5 weeks already and still have a few days to see more of it! Hope you enjoyed my stories so far✨✨✨
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Top Vietnamese dishes to try in Hanoi 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
🔹Noodle dishes, especially Pho, is a must in Hanoi. You can probably find this speciality everywhere! Usually pho consist of rice noodles, broth, chicken or beef meat and some herbs. My favourite was the duck pho we had in Don Duck, one of the small restaurants in the Old Quarter specialising on duck dishes. They are even included in the Michelin guide with a Bib Gourmand! You can also try other noodle dishes in Hanoi such as Bun bo nam bo, kind of a noodle salad.
🔹Variations of rice dishes such as Com tam, Ga nuong or Com suon nuong with rice and different buns and dumplings such as Banh goi would be a good choice as well.
🔹M absolute favourite would be the rolls such as Goi cuon! The filling of herbs, veggies and protein is wrapped in a transparent rice paper and is served with a sauce. You can also try nem ran or cha gio, those are the deep fried rolls with a crispy shell outside.
For the best place with a view over Hoan Kiem Lake, the background for the central legend of Hanoi with the returned sword and the turtle, I’d suggest you go to Cau Go restaurant
🔹 Don’t leave Hanoi without trying ca phe trung, egg coffee that is served everywhere, and it’s absolutely delicious: the best ones were served in Ga Dong Du’ong cafe on the Train street, in the Temple of Literature cafe and by our hotel Le Chanvre.
🔹There are also many super sweet drinks with herbs like lemongrass, fresh coconuts, smoothies and fresh juices too such as Nuoc mia (sugar cane juice). And don’t miss fruit salads Hoa qua dam!
🔹And don’t forget famous Banh mi sandwich
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The most famous luxury product of Oman ✨✨✨
📍Amouage visitor centre and factory
Amouage founded in 1983 is a luxury perfume brand famous all over the world. As Oman has been known for centuries for its incense, the brand was born from an idea of cherishing and preserving the country’s heritage.
You can come to the Amouage visitor centre and factory in Muscat to learn about the main ingredients, the stories behind the bottle shapes (female perfumes are shaped as mosques and male scents represent the dagger!) and the most exclusive bottles produced for special occasions. Besides that, you can learn about the process of perfume production held here in Muscat: some stages of perfume production take place in France and the major stages and packaging are held here, in front of your eyes.
Finally, you can visit the factory shop and try some of those luxury perfumes yourself! Of course, I couldn’t not resist myself too. To book a tour in English which lasts 20-45 min, you can drop an email or call the factory.
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Cities like this 💔😍 #purpurpurpur_rooftops
Osaka is one of the old capitals of Japan that was known under the name of Naniwa. Today it’s a lively and busy modern city, with many attractions and touristic landmarks. And this year it welcomes Osaka Expo 2025 (see the list known as facts about it in my other post)
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