Orvieto Città del Gusto, dell’Arte, del Lavoro e dell’Innovazione si appresta ad entrare nel secondo fine settimana, che inizia con l’incontro sul tema “Scienza a tavola, consapevolezza e responsabilità”, in programma sabato 23 settembre alle 10,30 a Palazzo Coelli. Invitare la scienza a tavola è una scelta di campo. Innanzitutto perché ascoltare i medici, i ricercatori, gli scienziati, riuscire ad avere con loro…
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Terna, il Gruppo guidato da Giuseppina Di Foggia che gestisce la rete di trasmissione nazionale, si conferma leader della sostenibilità a livello globale. La società è stata infatti inclusa per il tredicesimo anno consecutivo nell’indice STOXX “Global ESG Leaders”, e nei sottostanti indici “Environmental Leaders”, “Social Leaders” e “Governance Leaders”, gestiti dalla società Qontigo, parte del gruppo Deutsche Börse, che…
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Futuro, sviluppo, rigenerazione: sono queste le parole chiave della 14esima edizione di Cheese, la manifestazione internazionale dedicata ai formaggi a latte crudo organizzata da Slow Food e Città di Bra che si sta concludendo in queste ore. Risuonano tra le vie e le piazze della cittadina piemontese, tra le bancarelle che raccontano la meravigliosa diversità di migliaia di caci a latte crudo provenienti da…
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Lo scorso 18 Settembre presso la sala Fiume di Palazzo Donini, il Comune di Deruta in collaborazione con l’associazione i Mastri Musici, la Mastrini Group, l’associazione Deruta Borgo delle Arti e alla presenza della Presidente della Regione Umbria Donatella Tesei, ha presentato il Deruta Soul Music che si svolgerà dal 21 al 24 Settembre a Deruta. Un progetto fortemente voluto…
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At the end of Borgo Nuovo di Todi, leaning against the medieval walls, right at the entrance of Porta Perugina (originally called Porta di San Biagio), stands the ancient church of Sant ‘Eligio, already present in documents of 1269 and probably build by Leoni family. From 1500 the church of Sant’Eligio was the seat of the Lay Brotherhood of Mercy,…
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Inside the abbey of San Pietro in Perugia, a treasure trove of wonders such as the Cathedral and the Treasures Gallery, it is possible to stroll in the arcane charm of the Medieval Garden. Numerology, symbolism, religion… every particular contributes to create an aura of intriguing mystery around this “hortus conclusus” designed on the basis of medieval culture and Benedictine…
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San Pietro is one of the richest and most majestic churches in Perugia, a collection of art so considerable as to be second in the city only to the National Gallery of Umbria, and such as to make it impossible, here, a meticulous description. Let’s focus the attention on some of the works that the church contains, witnesses of the…
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Near Massa Martana, in San Faustino, along one of the two original sections of the Via Flaminia, stands the imposing Fonnaia bridge (Ponte Fonnaia), half hidden in the greenery. The consular road Flaminia, which from Rome entered Umbria at the height of Otricoli, reached Narni from where it branched in two directions: one towards Terni and Spoleto and the other,…
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The catacombs of San Faustino (near Massa Martana) are the only catacombs in Umbria. Located along one of the two original sections of the Via Flaminia and originally born as a pagan hypogeum then converted to Christian devotion, their presence was already known in the seventeenth century. The space currently visible outside the entrance of the catacombs, on the other…
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In Palazzo Vallemani, the “Museum of Memory Assisi 1943-44” runs along 4 exhibition halls where, since 2011, thanks to the will of Marina Rosati and the courageous figure of Don Aldo Brunacci, the great little stories of ordinary heroism are shown to the public, to keep their memory alive, to pay them homage and to ensure that the lesson imparted…
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Fourteen meters below the current road level, a stone’s throw from Termini Station and Via Nazionale in Rome, it is possible to discover the Horti Sallustiani, a little-known and fascinating monument that reveals the ancient “rural” aspect of this busy area in the center of Rome. The Horti Sallustiani, the gardens realized for the enjoyment of the owner and his…
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From 1988 to 1992, an excavation campaign was conducted in the archeological site of Poggio Gramignano, directed by prof. Soren of the University of Tucson, focused on the architecture of a Roman villa, bringing to light an extraordinary colonnaded atrium of which the lower part of the walls and the polychrome mosaic floor still exist. However, the richness of the…
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