Tag Archives: Milan

Let’s discover together Ticino Park, green lungs a few miles from Milan, through bike routes and walks in beautiful art cities A few kilometers from the metropolis of Milan, a beautiful natural landscape opens in front of us: here we are at the Ticino Park, one of the green lungs of Italy, where nature shines […]

Sometimes we feel the need to escape from the chaos of the city. So, we look for a haven in the countryside. Just outside Milan, one of the bigger Italian cities, you can visit breathtaking places surrounded by nature. They are the perfect destinations to practice yoga, meditation, trekking, and to find our own inner balance. If you are […]

When you come to Oasi Galbusera Bianca, it is like crossing a portal of a fairy tale. It is located 40 km away from Milan and in a short time you can reach Brianza, with its active cities and companies… In a moment you’ll find yourself in the middle of green uncontaminated hills, surrounded by singing birds. Entering […]

From Turin to Milan by bicycle. That’s right! By 2022 it will be possible to cover the 82 km that connect the two major cities of Piedmont and Lombardy This year started the construction of the cycle path that will connect two of the largest Italian cities. It will lead bike-lover along a beautiful itinerary […]

“Il Sentiero di Leonardo” (the trail of Leonardo da Vinci) is a new amazing historical path from Milan (north Italy) to San Bernardino (Switzerland). The itinerary retraces the places where Leonardo da Vinci did his works and studies when he lived in the Ducato of Milan. Probably the most productive period of his longstanding straordinary carreer. A 240 km path […]

An idea to discover Milan in an unusual and green way? Sleep in an old organic farm surrounded by greenery. You wake up with the scent of nature, explore the surroundings by bike or by foot, pick your own organic vegetable and eat local, then reach the pulsating heart of the metropolis by bus and subway. […]

The small towns and villages on the outer edge of big cities usually just become satellites: it’s the city where life plays out, and those small towns are just empty urban conglomerates where people go back to, to relax and sleep. Cassinetta di Lugagnano, a tiny village just 26 km from Milan, was supposed to […]

Organic is cool all over Italy and even more so in Milan In the city of Expo, food is a hot trend right now. Though the Milanese are busy people, they are nonetheless Italian and eating is very important indeed. Especially healthy eating. Here are the best organic markets in Milan where you can buy […]

Maybe some do not know, but Tourism is in fourth place for the production of CO2 in Europe. If the main responsible factor for the environmental impacts of tourism is transport (particularly airplanes and private cars), which cause around 75% of the tourism-related CO2 emissions, while the second most important cause are the hotels, which […]

Do not miss the opportunity to visit the breathtaking collection of large-scale aerial photography by the French environmental artist, Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The exhibition Earth seen from above – La Terre vue du ciel is currently taking place at the Museum of Natural History of Milan until 19th of October 2014. The work carried out by Arthus-Bertrand includes […]