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The Alta via dei Parchi hike: the green adventure in the northern Apennines is ready!
What could be better than slow, sustainable and close-to-home tourism? Doing it while you’re discovering beautiful Italian Appennines! This year It.a.cà, the Festival about sustainable tourism, starts this way… and the green adventure is guaranteed! Learning sustainability by travelling The sustainable tourism Festival, now in its sixth edition, will start on May 30th in the […]
Continue readingThe 5 most colorful (and less well-known) Carnival celebrations in Italy
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, […]
Continue readingThe Carnival of Venice: 900 years of celebrations and craziness!
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 […]
Continue readingBiking under a blanket of …lights, in Turin!
Are you thinking of a different winter city break? No snow trails and no skiing? Turin is your place! Long underrated and disregarded in comparison with well known beautiful Italian cities like Rome, Florence, Venice or Naples, Turin is now gaining more and more reputation as the Italian capital for modern art. Its private and […]
Continue readingFind out Christmas markets in the south of Italy!
Advent has come! This is the time of Christmas trees (strictly eco !), Nativity scenes and, last but not least, the time of the Christmas markets! In the north of Italy they are a tradition, but in many places in the south they are a recent discovery, a “fashion mood” to chase and ride! The […]
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