When I was first assigned this article I thought “eco-villages” (or ecovillages) were just resorts with a green approach to the environment. Well, I was wrong. Ecovillages (or eco-villages) are communities with a strong ecological focus but the project is not exactly the one of a week or more of vacation stay. It may actually […]

More people on the same car means less pollution and less traffic. A smart way to reduce CO2 emissions from cars in our travels is the Carpooling. Car sharing has grown a lot in recent years due to the diffusion of a lot of web services, including Apps that allow the meeting between who is […]

It’s carnival season, it’s time for the collective frenzy that celebrates trasgressions, jokes and crazyness 40 days before Easter. In Italy there are a lot of carneval traditions, and beautiful places to celebrate it. Here are some of the most dazzling (and less well-know) carnival celebrations in Italy. Carnival of Gnaga, Beppe Nappa, Gagèt col sò Uchèt, […]

Printing with the coffee grounds, cooking with the sun, driving the eco-friendly car in Lego bricks … discover 10 incredible green inventions! In the world, there is someone that takes care so much of our planet that has invented things that help us to not destroy it. Their inventions maybe do not really improve our life […]

There were once more than six thousand kilometers of track on which they traveled the first puffing steam trains, among bridges and natural italian landscapes, cultivated plains and wild woods, hills dotted with rows of trees and breathtaking mountains. Next came the high speed, the highways and cars, and those old rails are become rusty […]

“Who wants to look good on the earth shall keep the necessary distance” wrote Italo Calvino in his wonderful novel “The Baron in the Trees “. The adventure of Cosimo, who decides to spend his whole life in the trees, watching the world from above, has always fascinated me. After marrying an architect with vertigo problems, […]

At the time of Greeks, the guides were the priests, those who walked side by side along the paths of the pilgrims of the Via Francigena, accompanying them in their religious trips. The guide is always the interpreter, who can tell the invisible, who can “make the stones speak,” to transform the scenery you pass […]

Italy is the country of beauty, music, food, and of course, love!  When it comes to love declarations, the Italian language is simply full of such expressions. One can describe one’s love through various words and phrases, such as: ti amo, ti voglio bene, ti penso sempre, caro mia, mio amore … Whether you are incurable […]

You must have got lost in the green Apennines, and happened to find out an old village set like a gemstone in the mountains, no matter if you were in Umbria, Marche or Emilia. You must have had the impression of one of those places where time and space have stopped, the ideal place to […]

One of the most famous carnivals all over the world the Carnival of Venice has not lost an inch of its charm and its magic atmosphere though some celebrations went a little undertone some years ago but…those few miserable years have been since long forgotten and nowadays Venice is THE PLACE TO BE during the Carnival period. (15th February […]