During the 700thanniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the town council of Torgiano decided to open the doors of its noble palaces to provide a prominent setting for the verses of the Comedy that Boccaccio called divine. In the hallways and rooms of the villas,...

The month of re-opening: this is the main characteristic of May 2021. In this spirit, we issue an invitation to travel through the province of Perugia looking for outdoor sculptures, pointing out some areas within pleasant walking distance. Let us begin with Todi and...

Perhaps not everyone knows this but there is a television programme that hosts an extraordinary tourist competition, this year in its eighth edition. The competition is called “Il Borgo dei Borghi 2021”, broadcast on RAI 3 as part of the TV programme Kilimangiaro:...

Solstices and equinoxes mark the change of seasons. The equinox, from the Latin aequinoctium, marks the first day of spring and autumn when there are twelve hours of light and twelve of darkness on the entire planet. Often, coinciding with the equinox, there can be a...

Even if it is short, February, the second month of the year according to the Gregorian calendar and the only one that has 28 days (29 in leap years), to us seems never-ending! And although it is usually the period in which Carnival occurs with the Thursday before Lent...

Who can really say what good fortune is? Trusting in some wise Zen parable would be enough to dispute the durability of the concept of good or bad luck. But there is no denying that, even now, tradition offers us many gestures to ward off ill-fortune: perhaps they...

For those who enjoy produce in season, who want to respect its consumption, who like to promote the importance of not having a product available all year long because they prefer to look forward to it first and then say goodbye to it afterwards, December is the ideal...

As usual in November, the Frantoi Aperti event (Open House in the olive mills) celebrating the availability of the newly-pressed extra-virgin olive oil attracts thousands of keen gourmets to the regions of Italy.Umbria is second to none for the quality of its olive...

It is not only in poetry and verses of music that October is present as an important moment of withdrawal. Rather, the end of summer’s splendour changes both our external and internal landscape. As Mina sings in Ballata d’autunno:“Si gonfia di grigio il cielo (The sky...

This year, we at Lingua Libera Tutti have discovered a new place where we can teach our beloved language, even for brief periods.We were actually contacted by the organic Agriturismo “La Coccinella”, located at Pornello in the province of Terni, to offer a week-long...