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Tag Archives: Italy

THE MARCH OF THE PALIO DI SIENA – Pietro Formichi, the author of a famous and highly played march

Where a famous porch enhances musical acoustics What not to miss during a trip to Tuscany? The Chianti area, between small villages and abbeys, to devote yourself to good food and good wine. Val d’Orcia, characterized by sinuous hills dotted with cypresses and vineyards. Florence, an open-air museum that houses priceless works. Siena https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/tourist-info/, a medieval city known worldwide for …

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A MASTERPIECE OF DEDICATION AND INVENTIVE – Crostoni, salami and ribollita, waiting for the Palio di Siena

Travel to Siena, the snail-shaped city What not to miss during a trip to Tuscany? The Chianti area, between small villages and abbeys, to devote yourself to good food and good wine. Val d’Orcia, characterized by sinuous hills dotted with cypresses and vineyards. Florence, an open-air museum that houses priceless works. Siena https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/tourist-info/, a medieval city known worldwide for its …

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BETWEEN THE JEWELS OF AN ANCIENT LAND – Author’s journey to Tuscany, between talking crickets and sweet romances

Through green velvet hills, into the creative Italian theater   Tuscan hills of grass velvet, low and emerald. An unreal landscape that will attract the attention of your eyes when, not far from Volterra, you will arrive in small Lajatico https://www.visittuscany.com/it/localita/lajatico/, where no photographer would be able to capture the uniqueness of the intense colors and the preciousness of the …

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THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO – Children’s novel by Carlo Collodi

An animated puppet, the lies and the growth of one’s nose Welcome to Collodi https://www.collodi.com/, the town of Pinocchio (May 27 is his birthday), where among the houses perched one above the other, a writer found his inspiration for his novel for children. The adventures of Pinocchio, 220 translations in as many languages, will tell you the story of the …

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE IN THE WORLD – Andrea Bocelli, a crossover performer

If God would have a voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli Tuscan hills of grass velvet, low and emerald. An unreal landscape that will attract the attention of your eyes when, not far from Volterra, you will arrive in small Lajatico https://www.visittuscany.com/it/localita/lajatico/, where no photographer would be able to capture the uniqueness of the intense colors and …

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SOUNDS, PERFUMES AND ATMOSPHERES, BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT – Traveling in Tuscany

Drink Chianti, listening to Bocelli, on green velvet You can go there to appreciate its extraordinary artistic offer, or simply to let yourself be enveloped by its landscapes. If you want to walk in remote mountain paths, pedal on hills full of curves, or sail in a sea dotted with islands, you will have to go right here. Foreigners choose …

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JOURNEY INTO PIEDMONT CREATIVITY – From lemon ice cream to Pumpkin Tavern, in good company

Five ways to combine art with a territory Sometimes, the artistic vein of a painter blossoms in a small town that is why our journey into Piedmontese creativity begins here. In Piedmont, on the northwestern border with the hills of the Monferrato Casalese, Quargnento http://www.comune.quargnento.al.it/ is a municipality in the Alessandria plain. Among its monuments, you will find the minor …

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BETWEEN IMAGINATION AND ABSTRACTION – Carlo Carrà, the revolutionary who had a limit, beyond which there was something more

When a puppet symbolized the destruction of the era of false beauty In Piedmont, on the northwestern border with the hills of the Monferrato Casalese, Quargnento http://www.comune.quargnento.al.it/ is a municipality in the Alessandria plain. Among its monuments, you will find the minor Basilica of San Dalmazio, one of the most important ecclesiastical examples in the province. In the Vallerina Street, …

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ENIGMATIC PRESENCES, INSIDE A SILENT UNIVERSE – Riccardo Moncalvo and witness of the ‘900 Industrial Turin

Faceless figures Among the most beautiful squares in the city, there is Piazza Castello, but also the royal palace and Palazzo Madama are jewels that you can photograph. Another square in Turin is Piazza Vittorio Veneto, right on the edge of the Po River. Near the Egyptian Museum https://museoegizio.it/, you will find the building that in the nineteenth century was …

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BEYOND FASHIONS AND COMMONPLACES – Kristina Ti, a way of being more than a way of dressing

She conquers the head first of all Among its typical restaurants, the Antica Trattoria della Rosa Rossa http://www.ristoranterosarossa.net/cucina-tipica-piemontese.html offers you a Piedmontese tasting menu, with Cruda di Fassone antipasto beaten with a knife. Moncalieri, city of art and history, where the Knights Templar have a bridge dedicated to them, which controls the passages on the Po River. Its Royal Castle …

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