Museums worth seeing: the Augustiner in Freiburg
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The expressiveness and attractiveness of a museum depends mainly on the works exhibited and the mounting architecture of the building, which is to offer art space and breath. After careful restoration, reopening in the spring of 2010, the largest and most important museum of Freiburg rightly deserves the title of “new Augustiner museum.” The former
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The Sacred Lands of the Parma’s Appenines
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
At one time, the place where Villaggio Sacre Terre is located was only populated by wild animals. But, after restoring part of the medieval village with the methods of bio-architecture, a group of pioneers decided to leave the city behind and dedicate itself to project originating from the need for greater accountability for current problems,
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Ace Hotels, sleeping cool in the U.S.
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Defined by the New York Times as “the most original in the country” and little known in Italy, the Ace Hotels really have something extra. A chain of urban hotels for the coolest globetrotters and attentive to aesthetic research, it was founded in 1999 with headquarters in Portland and New York and also currently has
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Trekking and good food in Tyrol
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
“Walking opens the mind,” say the poets. Sustainable tourism, researching the origins and genuine alpine experiences are the strengths of the Valle di Paznaun and the motto of the Culinary Walk of St. James 2012. From 8th July to 16th September, in addition to the landscape, you will be able to appreciate the pleasures of
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Flying? Do it yourself
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
It’s called Jodel but it’s not Tyrolean. To build it you need a design, a wooden frame like an IKEA closet, Dacron, the engine of a Beetle, the brakes of an Apecar and a basement or garage where to work. It has the colours of a Lego toy but it flies, and you can also
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The ill-treated: Pink Floyd, More
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
PINK FLOYD, Soundtrack from the film MORE, EMI 1969 It’s easy to say Pink Floyd. Everyone says they love them. Once at a market I met a guy who said he loved Pink Floyd and Pooh (!!!). Maybe he was a bit confused, but his eyes did light up when I mentioned Pink Floyd. He
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Flying with historical wings
Wednesday, 06 June 2012
What is a tourist flight? On a travel site we see that it’s an “actual flight organized as per special rules and procedure solely for tourist purposes”. In other words, for those who love airplanes but do not content themselves with just a plain airline flight, with an investment of EUR 500 or more they
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Slow travel: tour of Italy by public transport
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
He who goes softly goes safely and goes far, recites an old adage. The slow journey is a journey full of virtue but it brings to mind a whole series of labours: the cycling tourism or walking are not attractive for everyone. A curious alternative is to choose the local public transport, such as buses.
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The thrill of a journey through time: Piana delle Orme
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
In the province of Latina, Piana delle Orme is not just a museum but a historical theme park, created to house one of the largest and most diverse collections of the world: airplanes, tanks, locomotives, carts, radios, firearms and hundreds of military vehicles, agricultural tractors, threshers, trams and buses, tools and thousands of objects of
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The hostel is trendy with Golly Bossy
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Canary yellow, total white and a splash of black, his recognition codes. The style is whimsical. It is in sudden steps that we plunge from the architectural classicism of the exterior façade into a Japanese modernism with extreme features. And then the name! How could it not be called Golly Bossy (random tongue-twister of an
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