Venice

Three adults and a girl have been detained in the centre of Venice as suspects in an alleged jihadist cell.
Police had been monitoring the group from Kosovo for months amid concerns they were planning to join Islamist militants in Syria, reports said.

Three men, who came from Kosovo, have been arrested in Venice, Italy.

The daily La Repubblica writes that they are believed to be members of a terrorist group.

The co-partner of Turkey's global Nusr-et chain of grill houses, Nusret Gökçe, who recently became a social media phenomenon for his meat-cutting and salt-drizzling skills, recently posted a video while he was making the Italian dish Carpaccio.

The video went viral on social media in a short time, with many users commenting about his adroit meat-slicing skills.

Vedema, a Luxury Collection Resort in Santorini has won the Most Romantic Resort Hotel Award in the world by travel site lovetravelawards.com for 2017. The announcements on the top hotel brands took place last week in Venice. Love Travel Awards reward the most romantic hotels in the world with the resort from Santorini being the only one from Greece.

In early 1941, Adolf Hitler could look at a map of Eastern Europe and think that his plans were progressing nicely. The invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, was coming in a few short months, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria had joined the Tripartite Pact, and Yugoslavia’s government signed on to the same on March 25th, 1941.

This year the annual !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival will open with the theme "Things that heal us." The festival will offer ways of healing and sense-making amid challenges in Turkey and much of the world, inviting viewers to come together, through its films, musical events and public talks.

According to Travelchannel, Santorini is among the 21 most exciting places you should visit.
In an article in its website Travelchannel uncovers the magic of each destination as they combine beauty with unforgetable experiences.

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A tragic accident took place in Northern Italy on Friday night. According to police information 16 teenagers from Hungary were burned alive when the bus they were on caught fire. The bus was heading to Venice when it went off course, hit a pylon and was engulfed in flames.

Many more people are injured. All students were between 14 and 18-years-old.

There is no denying that, generally speaking, the majority of travellers are interested in visiting the most popular destinations to enjoy their holidays. It is natural, people like to go were other people are. But there is that group of people who go out of their way to discover the less known places that are off the radar of most of us.