Posted by Il Sasso Italian School.
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When you take the Strada delle Crete, the road that leads down from Siena towards the south, the last strip of Tuscany before Umbria, you need to drive carefully. Every 100 metres or so there will be somebody who has pulled their car to a halt along the […]

Posted by Babilonia – Centro di lingua e cultura italiana – Taormina, Sicily
Web Site: http://www.babilonia.it
Have you ever been to a place where the horizon is always visible?
I live in one and although the horizon is only an imaginary line for most people, ‘mine’ is solid, magnificent.

I live on an island and it’s called Sicily. It […]

We are pleased to present the “Walking Festival”, which brings together the pleasure of walking with culture, history, food and music in the 6 Natural Parks on the Tuscan coast.
Throughout September and October 2010 the Festival includes a packed programme of walks in the Natural Park of Migliarino San Rossore Massaciuccoli, which extends over an […]

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 […]

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 […]