The Colombaia castle in the city of Trapani: A strategic fortress on the tip of western Sicily The history of the Colombaia Castel The Colombaia Castle today A strategic fortress on the tip of western Sicily The Colombaia castle is located on a small island about 600 meters west of the port of Trapani. […]
Il Giglio è Lirica – the event dedicated to opera and live entertainment
Il Giglio è Lirica – the event dedicated to opera and live entertainment “Il Giglio è Lirica” is a project that was born in 2009 thanks to the Cultural Association “L’Arte in Scena”. The basic idea is to make the Island of Giglio one of the most beautiful and important Italian tourist destinations with a […]
MUM – The Mineralogical and Gemological Museum of Elba island
MUM – The Mineralogical and Gemological Museum of Elba island: Opened in 2013 and formally established the following year, the Mineralogical and Gemological Museum Luigi Celleri is a center that collects a very important collection of minerals from the area of San Pietro in Campo and from the entire Eastern Elba. The Museum The […]
Corsica is an island that can attract various types of tourism: seaside, for its beaches and its uncontaminated sea; sportive, for the various practicable outdoor activities; cultural, for its history told by the many villages and hamlets; naturalistic, for its wild nature to discover. There are also places, far from the most popular tourist destinations, […]
Sardinia hosts on its territory ancient and impressive architectural monuments connected with the ancestral cult of water. It could be thought that, being an island, this cult is an expression of the power of sea water, but actually it was the shepherds in the Sardinian inland who worshipped water: in these places, especially in summer, […]
Favignana what to do in the evening on the sicilian island
Favignana, also known in Sicilian as Faugnana, the main island of the Egadi archipelago. It is 7 km from the western coast of Sicily, and is located between Trapani and Marsala. Its name derives from the Latin word favonius, name with which the Romans called the hot wind that comes from the west. Due […]
Pinguicola and Utricularia vulgaris, the carnivorous plants growing in Sardinia
Sardinia is a territory that never ceases to amaze in terms of its nature: a real treasure chest of biodiversity with animal and plant species unique in the world. Thanks to its geographical isolation, to its particular chorological and ecological characteristics, as well as to the scarce anthropization compared to the territorial extension, Sardinia has […]
The islands are natural systems among the most characterized by endemisms. In Corsica in the transition from sea level to one of Monte Cinto (2706 m) there are several levels of vegetation that make the Island of Beauty unique in the Mediterranean. Here have been identified as many as 22500 plant species, of which 140 […]
The Benedictine Monastery in Catania: The Monastery of San Nicolò l’Arena is located near the Cathedral of Catania. Today it houses the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. The building represents one of the largest monastic complexes in Europe, second only to the convent of Mafra in Portugal. Founded by the Cassinese monks […]
