Category Archives: curiosity

What do have the Calvino’s Baron in the trees, the Burroughs’ Tarzan and an Orangutan in common ? Quite simple! They all live in a forest or, better, above a forest! They all live among the shades of any kind of trees! Does this perspective seem a bit unusual for you? You just need a […]

Albert Einstein maintained Everything you can imagine, nature has already created. Indeed, he was right! Even the most difficult work of transformation, from meadow to lake, from lake to meadow, nature has already accomplished. Where? In Austria, in Styria region, in a village named Tragöß.   Just for a moment, close your eyes and imagine that you are […]

Whether you are crazy for state of art design products or for shabby look furniture, you can now choose to pick up your favourite piece of green design furniture and go green with these ideas. You will love watching grass grow Yes, you will and it will be the grass of your sofa. You can […]

Feeling an inexplicable urge to grab your pass, check next flight/train schedule and leave for a new adventure? It’s your DRD4-R7 gene, there is nothing you can do about it but follow your genetic star. According to recent research, the modification of the gene DRD4, the R7 modification, may explain the inner force to travel, […]

Sometimes my native land seems a book written in a foreigner language. An ancient door, uncannily carved, with a lock to which I don’t own the key. Here more than elsewhere, you need to be patient to find what you are looking for: a wonderful and desert beach, a village without overbuilding, an unknown taste […]

Travel in an eco-friendly way means to think about a trip as the amount of many little things. The quality of each one makes the difference: the type of means of transport, food, air quality, landscape harmony… And a good night’s sleep obviously! Therefore we propose this experiment: when you’ll choose where to go on […]

The 20th of March is the Spring equinox: swallows will return, a mysterious sensation of excitement will fill every living creature and, as the legend goes, the demon Rahu will once again eat the Sun which will fall back out from his mouth just a few hours later. And the arrival of the Spring coincides […]

Ammappa l’Italia is the name of a new project created by Marco S Perfido. The name is a pun on the term map and the idea is essentially to map the Italian territory. What’s new about that? You may ask, the first maps of this area date back to centuries ago, B.C. And you’d be right: […]

VenTo: from Venice to Turin by bike Italy will finally have one long bike trail featuring state of the art security, thanks to VenTo. The bike path runs for 679 km and connects Venice and Turin, crossing Milan via the picturesque path of the Navigli, the area of canals designed by Leonardo da Vinci in […]

3, 2, 1…0! The winter solstice is here and that means that temperatures will drop dramatically for the next three months. Sunday 21st December, 11.03 pm This is when the Sun will reach the highest point along its ecliptic journey in the sky. And though we take it for granted, let’s just remember the Sun […]