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 The smallest and legendariest kingdom in the world.
Impressive with its cliffs hundreds of meters high, the island of Tavolara, 4 km far from the coast of Porto S. Paolo, in the north-east of Sardinia, is the smallest kingdom in the world.
Fantastic animals, shepherds-kings, underground roads, subterranean weapons, fill the island with mystery and transform Tavolara also in the kingdom of legends.
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 Capo Palinuro.
"That place will have of Palinuro eternally the name", sings Virgil in the Aeneid's sixth book.
Inextricably tied to the legend is so Capo Palinuro, one of the most sensational corner of the Tyrrhenian coast south, where the tragic end of the helmsman of Aeneas, Palinuro, took place.
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 Capo Vaticano, cape view.
Long considered an inaccessible and sacred place, Capo Vaticano, with its magical cape, overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Calabrian province of Vibo Valentia.
The magic comes to our attention since the name: Vaticano derives in fact from the Latin Vaticinium, which means oracle, response, to recall a legend who wants the extreme tip of the cape inhabited by the prophetess Manto.
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 Myths and legends make full of mystery the Sibillini Mounts (Italian Monti Sibillini), between the Italian regions of Marche and Umbria,.
The very name of the mountain range comes from the most evocative of these popular stories, set in the cave of the Sibyl that, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, radiates mystery on the village of Montemonaco.
Hollow at 2173 m above the sea level, the cave of the Sibyl opens near the top of an atypic basalt cliffs that, 10 m high, is like a crown for the homonymous Mount.
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