Archive for September, 2006

A postcard from Porto Torres!!

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

This time, the last news of It-schools, in the “Travel and Culture” section, offers you the chance to contact the Sardinian culture and, particularly, the Porto Torres’ one.
Sardinia is a very beautiful island, rich of traditions and culture, and Porto Torres, in the middle of the Asinara Gulf, is one of the most important ports […]

A garden at a depth of 26 metres

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

On 29th September of 1965, at 14 miles from the coast of Ravenna, the AGIP platform “Paguro”, used for drilling of methane, caught fire and sank breaking in three stumps, that settled down in the seabed at a depth of 35 metres.
After about 40 years, the wreck, taken peacefully by the sea, was transformed into […]

Bread and its stories

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

This time we’d like to speak to you about bread and, particularly, about Emilian bread. Do you know that only in Emilia-Romagna 16 different typologies of bread are recognised with the IGP mark (Indicazione Geografica Protetta ) (PGI : Protected Geographical Indication)?
We are impressed by the variety of the typologies of bread made in our […]

Literature in Mantua

Monday, September 4th, 2006

“Festivaletteratura” (Festival of Literature), which is going to keep us company from 6th to 10th of September, is organised also this year in Mantua.
This festival is 10 years old and attracts positively a lot of visitors and showbusiness personalities. The town grows busy of lights, stands and every corner becomes a listening and meeting point […]