This year again, from 12th to 21st July 2007 the Giffoni Film Festival opens with its programme that is rich in events and films. For 36 years now this festival has been a reference point for the cinema created for young people and has promoted it from the marginal position it had once to the […]

The fourth ASLI Convention (Association for the History of the Italian Language) will take place at the Faculty of Arts of Modena and Reggio Emilia University, from 20th to 22nd September 2007. This convention combines the Italian language and cooking from the historical point of view.
The convention’s principal aim is to associate the […]

The last It-Schools publication in the section Travel&Culture is about the town of Olbia, an important touristic destination when you want to visit Sardinia and to contact the rich landscape of the island.
Olbia, an ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian centre, offers you the possibility to appreciate the ancient St Simplicio basilica, both from the historical […]

The musical show called Emilia Romagna Festival started on 24th June 2007. This is an important event, both for the national and for the international scene, that has been organized by the two towns of Imola and Bologna and by Romagna.
This long musical celebration will go on till 7th September and it will include 58 […]

Today we want to talk to you about the last It-schools’ publication: it is about the town of Nicotera, an Italian patrimony of Calabria that you can find in the Travel&Culture section. Nicotera is called the “The Tyrrhenian Sea Gem” because of its position on the Tyrrhenian Sea and the natural beauties of its territory.
Besides […]

The Quintain tournament was born in 1946 when, in very casual circumstances, the “Association for Mutual Aid among workers, farmers and other citizens from Foligno” wanted to celebrate the 85th anniversary of its foundation. For this purpose they took up again an old horse competition in period costume: a Quintain racing that had been made […]

Today we have been attracted by the beauties of the Modenese Appennines and, in particular, by the nature which is contained in the Park of Rocca Malatina Rocks. The park is situated a few kilometres away from Guiglia (province of Modena) and you can reach it from Emilia road, driving along the Provincial road […]

If you have the possibility to go to Tuscany, we suggest you to stop in San Gimignano, a place that has been declared as UNESCO’s heritage because of its typical medieval structure, consisting of some famous and characteristic towers.
In the Middle Ages the towers were even more numerous (it seems that there were 72 of […]

We have recently had the opportunity to go on a trip to Tuscany, in the wonderful area of Chianti. The natural landscape of these places is really magnificent in spring: on the hills the wooded bush with oaks, chestnuts and holm-oaks follow the vineyards and the cultivations of olive trees. This region of Tuscany is […]

The It-Schools pages of the Travel&Culture section have been enriched by some information about the beautiful town of Trapani, which is called “the town between the two seas” because of its peculiar position. In fact, this town is situated on the furthermost western strip of land of Sicily, between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Sicily […]