SULMONA (Reuters) – Knightly jousts add a touch of time travel each summer to the escapist pleasures of culture, cuisine and wild nature offered by central Italy’s soaring Abruzzo mountains.

Flee the tourist hordes of Rome, Florence and Sienna and head this weekend for ancient Sulmona, “Sienna of the Abruzzo”, and its Giostra Cavalleresca, or jousting (www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/us-culture-italy-sulmona-jou ting-idUSTRE76S2G320110729). Unlike the Tuscan city’s famed Palio horse race – let alone the London Olympics – a handful of euros puts you at the very heart of the action.

SULMONA, July 26 (Reuters) – Knightly jousts add a touch of
time travel each summer to the escapist pleasures of culture,
cuisine and wild nature offered by central Italy’s soaring
Abruzzo mountains.

Flee the tourist hordes of Rome, Florence and Sienna and
head this weekend for ancient Sulmona, “Sienna of the Abruzzo”,
and its Giostra Cavalleresca, or jousting
(www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/us-culture-italy-sulmona-jou
ting-idUSTRE76S2G320110729). Unlike the Tuscan city’s famed
Palio horse race – let alone the London Olympics – a handful of
euros puts you at the very heart of the action.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood sets about building a civilian administration for Egypt on Monday that can heal a divisive history of oppression and coax a mistrustful army into relaxing its grip on power.

Behind the scenes, talks were already under way between the Islamists and generals to resolve disputes that blew up this month over steps by the ruling military council to hem in the powers of the first freely elected president Egypt has known.