15 May 2019 The Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice
All the events at one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world Inaugurated at the end of the XVIIIth century, today the Gran Teatro La Fenice (the Phoenix) in Venice is still one...
All the events at one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world Inaugurated at the end of the XVIIIth century, today the Gran Teatro La Fenice (the Phoenix) in Venice is still one...
A place that produces “an absolutely astounding effect and has something improbable and exciting about it”: the comment is by the great German writer Herman Hesse and refers to Gubbio, the medieval town in Umbria,...
There is a place in Sicily where sweetness and passion are the colors of gold, the amber shade of honey and the bright red of fire, the colors of the autumn, earth and sun.
On June 7th the unique setting of Venice will provide the backdrop for one of the most spectacular events linked to the history of the Bel Paese: the Regatta of the Ancient Maritime Republics, the origins of which date back to Italy’s glorious maritime tradition during the Middle Ages.
Every year, on the first moon of May, a woman would immerse herself in the sea to gather this gold and use it to make a yarn with which she would weave incredible fabrics. It sounds like a myth but it actually still happens in Italy today: this woman is called Chiara Vigo and she lives on the island of Sant’Antioco, the biggest of the islands of Sardinia, to the south west, around eighty kilometers from Cagliari.
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