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The first Italian Transition towns

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Monteveglio, Granarolo, L’Aquila, Lucca and Carimate are the first transition towns in Italy. But what are transition towns?
The Transition Towns movement was founded in England in 2006 in the town of Totnes by Rob Hopkins.
It is a cultural movement engaged in shifting the current economic model in our industrialised society, which is profoundly reliant on […]

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THE NATIONAL VALGRANDE PARK AND THE “THE TASTE’S PATHS” EXHIBITION

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

The National Park of the Valgrande Valley was founded in 1992. It extends in the heart of the Verbano Cusio Ossola province, just 100 Km away from Milan. It is the largest wild area of Italy, with a parched and scarcely reachable territory, a unique valley where endless woods, clear waters and undisputed silences walk […]

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