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Italy is a country famous for it's tourist sights. Here are a few suggestions about where to go when you go to that beautiful land. 1. Siena Siena (54.000 inhabitants) is situated in the very heart of Tuscany at 70 km. from Florence and 231 km. from Rome along the Cassia Way. She lies at 322 metres above sea level on top of three hills overlooking the Arbia and the Elsa valleys. The uneven level of the ground affords suggestive views a...

Morris Architects‘ idea of turning an abandoned oil rig into a residential resort is, itself, a brilliant and offbeat one. The notion of doing this with 4,000 soon-to-be-deserted ones? Potentially revolutionary. Combined, this would yield a whopping 80,000,000 available square feet spread around the sunny Gulf of Mexico. The wonderful idea comes complete with a fantasy of carrying people out to their sea-borne condos, homes and hote...