Archive for July, 2006

A walk in “Parco dei Gessi”

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

There is a park, near Bologna, which protects a very special landscape, where crystalline gypsum and gullies crop out: they characterise one of Europe’s most studied karst complex.
Regional Park “Gessi Bolognesi” offers you a green area rich of impressive erosive forms, where different animal and vegetable species, of great scientific interest, take shelter.

Inside the […]

The millenary success of pizza

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Put up the mouse who doesn’t like pizza…Truly, we think that those who doesn’t like it at all are very few, because, speaking frankly, pizza, by all its different tastes, wins over everyone tastes it.
Pizza’s origins date back to three thousand years ago: the pizza’s ancestry, such as flat bread, focaccia and the like, were […]

Military bands in Modena

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Do you know that Modena International Military Tattoo is organised from 10th to 15th of July?
We, personally, discovered it this year thanks to a press release, sent us by Modena’s municipal district.
This event is unique in Italy because there are military bands from all over the world, such as: the Royal Band of the Belgian […]

Magritte’s Empire of the lights

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

We’d like to mention to you an exhibition, very interesting in our opinion, about Renè Magritte’s art, entitled “Empire of the lights” (25th March/16th July 2006).
This exhibition shows no less then sixty works by the Belgian artist, produced between 1925 and 1967, that came mostly from the Belgian Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

This […]