Spring bursts forth and Lago di Trasimeno explodes with flowers in bloom. In mid-April, between the 11th and the 15th,  the Tulip Festival of Castiglione del Lago takes place when colour and this marvelous flower called the tulip take centre stage in an event that has...

The end of January marks the feast of the patron saint of Perugia. In fact, the city has three patron saints but for “il santo della grande freddura” (the cold-weather saint), the city puts on its feast-day clothes for a few days. On the vigil of the feast, during the...

Are Italians traditionalists or innovators? The answer is hard to find but the majority of Italians definitely respect the traditions connected with the month of December. There are a number of days in the final month of the year to which traditions by now ancient are...

Learning a second grammatical structure means having a more flexible brain: if we were able to see inside the skull of someone studying another language, we would see millions of cells popping up like mushrooms, a real ferment of new synapses, and we would see brain...

Another few weeks remain to visit two exhibitions that have been deemed such a great success by the public that they have been extended to 5 November. The first is “Da Giotto a Morandi. Tesori d’arte di Fondazioni e Banche italiane” being held at Palazzo Baldeschi in...

Autumn is on its way: the air is cooler, the days are shorter and the colours of the landscape are changing. It is a marvelous time to be outdoors and to enjoy the spectacle of nature. Even one’s mind is more active and stimulated. It is the ideal time to try out what...

Lingua Libera Tutti will sponsor a 9-hole golf competition saturday 15 july at the Lamborghini Golf Club.We’ll welcome you with the offer of a free lesson in Italian language and culture to everyone registered. For non-players, we are offering language lessons,...

Umbria Jazz (abbreviated UJ), begun in 1973 and held annually in Perugia in July, is the most important Italian jazz music festival. A few names: Ornette Coleman, Van Morrison, Bobby McFerrin, Earth, Wind & Fire, James Brown and Manhattan TransferCaetano Veloso)...

The 60th edition of the Spoleto Festival, originally way back in 1958 entitled the Festival dei Due Mondi, is starting. But why that name? Because the founder of the event, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti who died in 2007, intended to unite two cultures and two...

“Umbria in Piedi" (Umbria back on its feet) is a social photography contest conceived to show that Umbria is once again ready to welcome visitors and tourists, and what is no longer there because of the earthquake will soon be there again: thus encouraging the renewal...