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MARCH DATES
Transition month between winter and spring, March and its climate conditions are often uncertain with days that are still cold and rainy and others that seem harbingers of summer. This is the usual weather profile of March throughout Italy. The first important date to...
A WINTER PROJECT: VENTURING INTO THE UMBRIAN MOUNTAINS
What is there to do on weekends in January and February when the hours of daylight gradually begin to surpass the hours of darkness? If you enjoy the cold, a good idea might be to visit the Umbrian mountains. The highest mountains of the region, the ones on the...
DECEMBER
The month of the dark night that lights up with colour for the festivities, especially religious ones, in the western world and so, clearly in Italy, owes its name, December, to the Roman calendar. The word, in fact, derives from the Latin decem (the tenth month)...
ABC rurale: from computer science to agriculture
This is what prompted this very brief account of a project, an adventure, a life choice, a viewpoint, a wish to discover and the need to share all of it with many others. It’s a story still in the making of how one can go from the desks of Rome to working the land in...
CAN A NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PERUGIA SAVE ITSELF WITH SOME HELP FROM CINEMA?
To anyone who has wandered through a changing Perugia in recent years, the transformation taking place in the neighbourhood around Via della Viola, via Cartolari and via del Carmine is obvious. In a not-so-distant past, this tangle of streets, while not far from Corso...
THE DISTRICTS OF MONTELUCE AND SANT’ERMINIO
Not far from the Fontana Maggiore and Corso Vannucci is the district of Monteluce which has always been a major junction of the city. Indeed, until a few years ago, it was the sight of the main hospital of the Umbrian capital and the roads into Monteluce constantly...
UMBRIA JAZZ 2019, 12-21 JULY
It’s the same every year: we have to wait for the second ten days of July to arrive, ready for Umbria Jazz, the event that came into being in 1973 and is now considered the most important jazz festival in Italy. For ten days, Perugia becomes a spectacle: music invades...
WHY THERE IS A NEIGHBOURHOOD IN PERUGIA CALLED BORGO XX GIUGNO
We all know that Perugia is an ancient city: Etruscan, Roman, mediaeval … but it is also notable that the development of the city includes Corso Cavour and Borgo XX giugno. What event makes 20 June an historic date? On 20 June, 1859, in Perugia at the height of the...
IN MAY, WE WILL TRY OUT A DIFFERENT KIND OF HOSPITALITY AT FORABOSCO
The Fondazione AURAP permanently hosts twelve young adults with autism disorders. Assuming the care of these twelve people is all-inclusive, throughout the span of the day, the week and the year. Parents and close relatives of the young people take an active part in...
APRIL HOLIDAYS, BOTH RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC
April is the month in which the weather can be either rainy or mild, and usually people are happy to spend time outside, so life and activities move from the urban centres to walks in the countryside, some even close to home. When, as happens this year, Easter falls...