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Phileas Fogg and Passepartout travelled the 600 miles from Turin to Brindisi. Could they have taken an excursion north to the Italian Lakes? Steven Desmond shows us the houses and gardens of this idyllic area.

Top tip: 

This simple Italian cocktail is named after the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was a central figure in the unification of Italy. Its two ingredients—Campari from the north acting as a nod to the red shirts worn by Garibaldi’s freedom fighters and bright orange representing Sicily to the south—are symbolic of its heritage.

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4 July 2021

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