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Dubbed the world's 'living art gallery', Italy has more culture than you can shake a paintbrush at. Whether it's a broken pillar rising up through the linoleum floor of a train station or a baroque church overlooking a cracked antique pediment in the Forum, history and culture surround you. Outside there are Etruscan tombs, Greek temples, cat-infested Roman ruins, and statue-filled Renaissance fountains to gawp at; inside, you can swoon to Roman sculptures, Byzantine mosaics, beatific Madonnas from Giotto to Titian, gargantuan rococo tombs and trompe l'oeil ceilings.
