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By Silvia Pellizzon
23 March 2021

Cervara Benedictine Abbey - Liguria

Cervara combines reality with imagination, and history with legend; a rare concentrate of wonders similar to that kept in the Benedictine Abbey, is hard to find.

The structure includes the church of San Girolamo, a beautiful quadrangular cloister, a watchtower built to guard the area from attacks, a wonderful Italian monumental garden overlooking the sea and a beautiful botanical garden filled with the scents of Florentine lemon trees and Chinese mandarin oranges.

By Elena Minella
8 March 2020

Grotta Gigante di Sgonico

When you visit it, you can see the bigger natural room of a grotto, someone told that it can contain the entire St. Peter's Basilica!

This huge grotto (about 328 feet height, 557 lenght, 262 width) was discovered at the end of XIX age from Anton Federico Lindner.

It is magnificent not just for the room dimensions, but also for the size of its calcareous formation like Colonna Ruggero, its bigger stalagmite, 40 feet tall.

You can visit it all the year in Carso Triestino, North Italy.

By Silvia Pellizzon
30 April 2019

Discover Venice

Have you ever tried to lose your way through Venice?

Every corner has a story and every sculpture has something to tell you.

We spent an entire a day walking through this historical city, searching for those things that the normal tours don’t show you, and we found a lot of inspiration for new itineraries and walking tours.
You could see Venice with everybody else, but we can show you the little known corners of this city and its ancient history.

By Chiara “Chiaretta” Domenin
12 October 2018

Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019

Next year, after Florence, Bologna and Genoa, the title European Capital of Culture will be awarded once again to another Italian city, Matera, located in Basilicata in Southern Italy.  This city will have passed a selection process, which already had begun in 2012, by the European Commission in conjunction with the Italian government.

By Marcella Fiorese
7 December 2017

The Pizza Napoletana is now Unesco Intangible Heritage

During wednesday night, the Neapolitan Pizza is become Unesco Intangible Heritage, finally!

The petition for this acknowledgement started in 2014 with Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio during Napoli Pizza Village (the biggest people's festival in Europe).

During these years the creators of Napoli Pizza Village, have believed in this adventure and they have had a lot of unexpected satisfactions.

Claudio Sebillo and Alessandro Marinacci (creators of Napoli Pizza Village) hope to organized a huge party with all Naples for celebrate this historical event.

By Gloria Panzarin
19 September 2017

Sarmede "the fairy tale's town"

This is the 30th anniversary of this festival, there will be 80 events of street art and theatre from October 8th to February 11th.

"Le Fiere del Teatro" (theatre's fairs) will start the festival with a double appointment sunday 8 and 15 October; 50 companies from 20 different nations will performe for a total of 100 different shows each sunday, everywhere in the city!

By Elena Minella
11 September 2017

The Venice Glass Week

This is the year of the first Venice Glass Week edition; from 10th to 17th September there will be a total of 140 events regarding Venetian glass: university, furnaces, museums, foundations and much more.
There will be varied initiatives, the most free, like parties, exibitions, open fournaces or seminars; you can find the complete program in the website.
During this week you can see the glass world in all its aspects like Anamorphic Glass – Oliviero Zane:

By Alessandra Stefani
27 February 2017

The "Mosè di Michelangelo"

"Mosè di Michelangelo" came back to the light, and is not just a way of saying.

This fascinating sculpture of Michelangelo, situated on the tomb of Giulio II in Rome, after the refurbishment is back to shine.

The artist have done it using a particular technique, he have used lead to polish only the part of the statue that will be kissed by the sun and have made opaque the parts that need to move to the background.

With this technique the statue is like a painting, the left arm reflects the light in an mazing way.

By Chiara “Chiaretta” Domenin
15 December 2016

New Museo degli Innocenti in Florence

The Istituto degli Innocenti [Institute of the Innocents] in Florence has been in continuous operation, helping children and families, for over six centuries.  Founded at the beginning of the 15th century, it was the first secular institution dedicated to taking in orphaned children.  The institute is located in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, in the old hospital designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and enriched over time with works of art by many other famous artists.