A visit to the northern Italian city of Trento, where a unique science museum is making quite a name for itself. The museum has found an original way to showcase the wildlife of the Alps. Life-sized animals, seemingly floating in mid-air. The exhibition, named "From the glacier to the forest", has the animals displayed vertically in the centra...
READ MORESono ormai trent'anni che è stato avviato un gemellaggio tra l'Istituto Tecnico Economico "Cesare Battisti" di Bolzano e la "Union Endicott" High School di Endicott nello Stato di New York ed anche quest'anno l'ormai tradizionale scambio di studenti si ripete grazie all'impegno di un gruppo di docenti e delle famiglie degli studenti. Quest...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #46 2014 October, 29Author : italia.it Translation by: Known for its rosè-hued mountain faces, the autonomous Region of Trentino Alto Adige is a natural paradise and itinerary must, particularly for those moved and swayed by what is lacustrine. The area's approximately three-hundred bodies of water, of varying size and d...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #51 2015 January, 9Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: In Trentino Alto Adige, a region of a rare but little known beauty, something interesting is happening. It is a region accustomed to a well-advanced approach regarding museology, and already more than ten years ago, in 2002, it gave a new location at the Museum...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #10 2013 Dec, 20Author : OK vino Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti Trentino Alto Adige is famous for its large production of red wine, but the most credit goes to the white ones, which are excellent and take advantage from the fresh weather that can give a pleasant and intense acidity.
READ MOREItaly's alpine huts, or 'rifugi', provide the perfect - and inexpensive - place to get some peace and quiet and escape the heat of the Italian summer. And the good news is that they are not as inaccessible as you might think. But what can you expect from a rifugio? Those in super-remote, high-altitude areas might not offer flushing i...
READ MOREby Connie Pillsbury I was treated to a wonderful surprise botanical garden in Merano, Italy, this summer while traveling in the South Tyrol, the Southern Alps in northeast Italy. Merano, or Meran in German, (not to be confused with Milan), is a town of 38,000 people in a lush valley surrounded by scenic peaks. For years it's...
READ MOREOne reason Sicilians tend to identify with Sicily first and Italy (a distant) second? Sicilian food. The same goes for Veneto in the north or Puglia in the south. Italy is a young country -- it only celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2011. Despite the successful export of the "Italian restaurant," the idea of a unified Italian cuis...
READ MORESUNDAY, APRIL 27 - 4:00 p.m. doors open - 5:00 p.m. performance - 6:30 p.m. dinner Singing the mountain music of the Italian Alps. The choir is from Trentino, Tione di Trento, Italy. A special and rare experience. This will be their only performance in the Santa Clara Valley. Come early (4:00) and enjoy a glass of wine at our NEW pr...
READ MOREItaly's top cities for sustainable living are Verbania, Trento and Belluno, said Italian environmental organization Legambiente in its report 'Urban Ecosystem', ranking 104 Italian cities on their environmental sustainability. The report gave an overall picture of static cities that are having difficulty establishing themselves in terms of sus...
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