This time we would like to tell you about a new accomodation facility that will give you the opportunity to be alternative tourists this summer: the widespread hotel.
The widespread hotel can be defined as a “horizontal accomodation facility”, generally situated in an old town centre, with rooms and bathrooms placed in different buildings, (even […]

St. Valentine’s Day has very ancient origins, which perhaps aren’t known by everybody. Everything began in the ancient Rome in February, which was considered propitious to the preparation for the coming of spring, so to the rebirth.
Among the Romans the rites of purification began in this month. They cleaned their houses, sprinkled salt and some […]

The town of Soverato is situated in the southern extremity of the Gulf of Squillace and it is one of the most known and beautiful tourist resorts in the Ionian coast, so much that it was called ‘The gem of Ionian Sea’.
This town has a mild climate, a very clean sea and wonderful sunny and […]

We are getting close to Christmas and we are going to better understand the symbology of the Christmas Tree, which, at this moment, is in our houses and in our towns.
We realised there are a lot of stories about the origin of the Christmas Tree: some of them send us back to the Celtic Druids […]

For two consecutive days (from 18th to 19th November 2006), the nougat is becoming the absolute protagonist of Cremona, which is dedicating to this typical local product a well-organized and full of surprises festival.
This event, named “Cremona la dolce” (Sweet Cremona), uses nougat as symbol and puts together the gastronomy, the culture and the artistic […]

Fairy tales have always gone with our childhood, but, in our opinion, they can go on enchanting us as long as we live, above all if we have some children, whom we can tell tales before sleeping. We are also sure stories, legends and tales enable us to travel and to know other countries and […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

Since Saturday 8th of July, at Pietrasanta, in Tuscany, the “Versiliana Festival” is begun and it’s going to keep us company until 31st of August.
This Festival is at its 27th edition and it attracted us for the variety of its programme about culture, dance, music and theatre.

Theatrical performances and dancing shows are going to […]