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With its raw beauty, artistic grandeur and awe-inspiring architecture, Rome is one of the world's greatest cities and a fascinating place to visit in Europe. The city is home to some of Italy's best hotels, from butstling boutique boltholes and romantic retreats to luxury hideaways - and we've rounded up ten of our favourites.
From a hidden...
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To celebrate the opening of its unique new Mill Wheel Spa this March, we've teamed up with Three Horseshoes Country Hotel on the edge of the beautiful Staffordshire Peak District to offer one lucky AOL Travel reader the chance to win a spa break for two.
The winner will be one of the first guests to sample the incredible new spa on a Serenity...
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On a night tour of Palermo, High50's Caroline Phillips samples fast food Sicilian style. She tries balls of saffron rice with mozzarella, homemade pasta, and the local delicacy, calf's spleen.
It's hard to explain how enticing Sicily's street food is. Grilled cow's bowel appetisers don't sound too, well, appetising. How about spicy spleen...
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It's famous for its quaint fishing villages and idyllic beaches, and now British tourists have named Cornwall the most picturesque county in England.
A poll by Sykes Cottages asked Britons to vote for the most beautiful county, with Yorkshire, Cumbria and Devon making the top ten list.
One in five Brits (20 per cent) said the stunning coastline...
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Commuters were left stunned as an eight-foot polar bear strolled London's busy Underground on Monday morning - even getting on a train.
Manoeuvring through the crowds and pitching for a seat at Charing Cross station, the two-man puppet greeted passengers to celebrate the release of the new Arctic crime drama Fortitude.
The giant bear, created...
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We've teamed up with British luxury multi-concept vehicle company Horizon MCV to offer you the chance to win hire of its new Mercedes-Benz Vito campervan for this Easter bank holiday weekend, giving you the ideal alternative travel experience in Britain.
Horizon Multi-Concept Vehicles acts both as a stylish solution for day-to-day...
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A new app called "Am I Going Down?" predicts a flight's chances of crashing to calm nervous flyers.
The service allows users to calculate the odds for every flight they take in the hope of calming pre-flight nerves.
According to the Business Insider, the app wants to ease nervous flyers with logic by calculating just how unlikely it...
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File under: Winter sun & ski
Terrified of heights? Look away now. This winter, Airbnb is offering the bravest of skiers of the chance to spend a night in a cable car above the world-class ski resort Courchevel in France.
For one night only, guests will sleep 2,700 metres above the French Alps in the Saulire cable car, wakingup in prime position to hit the slopes the next...
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"There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing," the locals in Northern Norway will tell you. As we tackled the treacherous wind and snow storm on our group expedition to the North Cape, we were prepared for anything the Arctic wanted to throw at us.
Wearing thermals, waterproof jackets and trousers topped off with bulky snow...
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The new Prime Minister of Greece is looking to minimalise the all-inclusive holidays that thousands of British holidaymakers enjoy every year.
The country's new PM and leader of the Syria party, Alexis Tsiparis, says all-inclusive resorts restrict tourists to the hotel and are therefore damaging to small local businesses and tourist...
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The Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and George have joined Carole and Michael Middleton, along with Kate's siblings Pippa and James on a luxury family holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique.
The extended family are reportedly staying in a £10,000-a-week villa, where they are indulging in the services of a butler, spa treatments...
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Fancy visiting a destination that's a bit off the beaten track this year? How about a place that's so tourist-free that you haven't even heard of it?
Native Eye, a brand new tour operator which specialises in bespoke travel to far-flung destinations and "forgotten" tribal cultures, has compiled us a list of the best places as yet...
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This ostrich got into a real a flap when it was chased by a baby elephant.
The mischievous elephant calf ran after the bird while the herd were grazing in the Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa.
Photographer Jean du Plessis, 65, caught the unusual incident on camera as the youngster noticed the ostrich nearby and decided to give...
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A new free iPhone app is dedicated to finding travellers the cheapest flight possible - by predicting the future.
Other price comparison sites work by giving you the best price currently available, but this app, called Hopper, uses historical data to tell you when is the best time to book your flights.
According to BGR.com, Hopper's Brianna...
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Tokyo is the world's safest city when it comes to digital security, health, infrastructure and personal safety, according to a new report.
The Japanese capital was named the world's safest city for 2015, despite being home to the world's largest urban population with 38 million residents and suffering regular earthquakes.
Asian cities Singapore...
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These incredible pictures show the moment a man appeared to be surfing on an enormous whale.
The surfer, who has been identified as paddle boarder Mark Jackson, was floating just off shore near Kailua-Kona, in Hawaii, when the colossal creature emerged from the water merely metres behind him.
Totally unaware of the creature looming in tow,...
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Several ticket offices in Tube stations will start closing this month under a controversial programme to switch staff to platforms and make savings of £50 million a year.
Transport for London (TfL) said under a phased programme, staff will move from London Underground ticket offices to halls, gate lines and platforms.
Unions and Labour...
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Tune Hotels launches its hotly anticipated Canary Wharf property on 2 February and to celebrate its fifth hotel opening in London, we're giving away a one/two-night stay at Tune Hotel Canary Wharf.
Situated just a five-minute stroll from the vibrant quayside, the new hotel is ideally placed for visitors to take advantage of this beautiful and...
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With another month of the British winter left and snow falling across the country, we thought we'd take you to sunnier climes by looking at the countries where it's sunny for most of the year and that never get cold.
While 16C might be pretty mild for us Britons, the temperatures in these countries doesn't drop below this and most of the hot...
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Large cruise ships could soon be making an appearance in London under plans to open a new passenger terminal on the Thames at Greenwich.
It would be the first passenger terminal in London for at least 35 years, reports the Times.
The dockside hub is expected to open within two years and could allow ships more than 650ft long to stop near the...
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