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Rock. Opera.

National Geographic Traveler Art Director Jerry Sealy just returned from a two-week trip to Italy–avoiding the tourist crowds of Venice and Florence in favor of Orvieto, Assisi, Bologna, and Verona. Since 1913, the charming northern Italian city of Verona has hosted a summer season of world-class opera in the Arena di Verona, the beautifully preserved…

Where The Wild Things Were

Much to the consternation of tiger enthusiasts, reverence for these once-mythical beasts seems to be at an all-time low. The BBC reports that one of India’s fabled tiger parks, Panna National Park in Madhya Pradesh, has admitted that its Royal Bengal tiger population is now believed to be zero. The main culprit, according to an…