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"Where there was ice now there is ...": borrowing a famous song sung by Celentano, with these two daily itineraries we invite you to discover the lakes of the upper Val Nure on foot, in the hinterland of Piacenza. The disappearance of the glaciers has in fact left patches of greenery and small lakes in the…
Italy has 43 recognized World Heritage sites and 50 registered on a proviisonal list.
This is a heritage that the Italian Commissioner for Unesco, Giovanni Puglisi, wants better protected and managed.
UNESCO'S.
1979 Rock Drawings in Val Camonlca
1980 Milan, Church of S. Maria delle Grazie…
Santa Maria delle Grazie ("Holy Mary of Grace") is a church and Dominican convent in Milan, northern Italy, included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. The church contains the mural of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, which is in the refectory of the convent.
he Duke of Milan Francesco I Sforza…
. I continue to show you some things about Genoa, the Ligurian capital that marked my life for 20 years of living there before returning to my country of origin. Today I am going to refer to the Cathedral of San Lorenzo which, among its somewhat peculiar characteristics, preserves an intact bomb inside,…
Lake Garda is the largest lake in Italy. It is located in Northern Italy, about half-way between Brescia and Verona, and between Venice and Milan.
Glaciers formed this alpine region at the end of the last Ice Age. The lake and its shoreline are divided between the provinces of Verona (to the…
1.- The capital of Salento and its beautiful architecture may become World Heritage. Lecce is a historic city of 93,300 habitants (2013) in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Apulia. It is…
Ever since ancient times, Puglia, thanks to this land's particular nature and geographical position, has been an essential link between continental Europe and the ancient civilizations that developed on the Eastern shores of the Mediterranean.
Between the 11th and the 13th centuries, when this…
Muggia is situated on a peninsula facing north-east with typical hilly sloping towards the sea: from the western foothills you can enjoy the show (rare in Italy) sunset on the Adriatic Sea. Muggia is a tissue in a tissue: a comma in the enclave Trieste, quotation marks already in itself. A question mark, a…
The railway line Genova – Casella is a narrow gauge railway that connects the cities of Genoa and its hinterland, reaching Scrivia box in the upper valley.
Open year in 1929 (when all the works, began with the ceremony of laying the first stone June 26, 1921), connects the city of Genoa - the station of…
Campania (Italian pronunciation is a region in Southern Italy.
The region at the end of 2014 had a population of around 5,869,000 people, making it the third-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km2 (5,247 sq mi) makes it the most densely populated region in the country.
Located on the…