Avignon

Nestling in the hills of Provence is one of the historic cities of France: Avignon. People also known it as the second Rome because here the Popes had their residence from1309 to 1377 and had built a beautiful palace to live with the whole court of prelates, knights and ladies … [continue »]

Minervino Murge

Minervino Murge is in the largest wildlife reserve in the south of Italy and located at 429 meters above sea level in the middle of Murge. It is called "the Apulia balcony". Its very old origins merge with the myth. According to it, some Roman soldiers who escaped the Battle of Canne found refuge and love among the shepherds lived in upland near an altar dedicated to Minerva … [continue »]

Locorotondo

There is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy at the region called Murgia of Trulli. It is Locorotondo. Its historical center dates back to the tenth century when a church was built on the hill which dominate the Itria Valley, after a miracle of St. George - a protomartyr who died at Nicomedia -. The villagers began to build their white houses around the church and beside the road descended toward the valley as a spiral … [continue »]

Civita di Bagnoregio

The old Civita di Bagnoregio is known as "the dying village" because it is placed on high volcanic rock that is based on marine clay banks. The atmospheric agents and the two torrents flowing into the valleys surrounding the village are slowly blowing these banks. Geologists have calculated that the valleys become a 7 centimeters deeper each year … [continue »]

Castellaro Lagusello

Castellaro Lagusello is situated near Mozambano (Mantua) and looks out on a small heart-shaped lake. Its waters have been the habitat of men since the middle age of bronze. Between 1976 and 1979, the archaeological excavations have brought to light the traces of a pile dwelling community at the "Fondo Tacoli", which was devoted to … [continue »]

Calcata

Today in Tuscia there are some villages that are at risk of disappearing due to seismic or weather events. These villages are protected from the morphological structure of their site for centuries because they are placed on high rocks. The first inhabitants selected these places because here they dominated the surrounding area … [continue »]

Alberobello

Alberobello is the most characteristic village of Apulia certainly and the most famous in the world for the roofs of its houses (trulli) too. Its name derives from a large forest now disappeared (Sylva Arboris Belli) where peasants and shepherds built an agglomeration of houses since the fifteenth century … [continue »]