The Scottish Captain Neil McEacharn was an important figure for the birth of the Botanical Gardens of Villa Taranto on Lake Maggiore, in 1931. The Gardens were chosen by Buzzfeed in 2014, and by TheNeeds in 2017, as the most beautiful gardens in the world. His quote tells ...

Turin's Historic Carnival 2019 Carlevè ed Turin is the historic Carnival in Turin which will run from February 3 through March 5, 2019. Important Dates and Events: Sunday, February 3rd at 3 pm: The inaugural parade from Piazza Castello to the Parco della Pellerina, home to the great Luna Park ...

There are places which are magical, intense and unforgettable. Places where you can never get bored of the landscape, no matter how often you stare at, simply because every time it is as if your heart were skipping a beat. The Piedmontese Langa manages to encompass and ...

From October 6th to November 25th, the city of Alba will once again host the International White Truffle Fair which unites culture, the territory, sensory and gastronomic experiences.  With over 600 thousand visitors, the International White Truffle Fair of Alba is the epicenter of excellent food ...

At first site, coming down state road 229, it's easy to see how our visit to Orta San Giulio will leave us speechless. The road, surrounded by trees and stonewalls at first, suddenly offers us a glimpse of the Orta Lake, which gets wider and ...

This article is dedicated to Christmas, the most beautiful and charming holiday of the year, the most awaited moment by children and adults, a time of the year to spend with your family and loved ones. Christmas means love, snow, gifts, postcards, drawings, decorations that ...

A flourishing city: this is the description the historian Tacitus gave of Vercelli in the first book of his Histories. According to the ancient Roman historian, Vercelli was, together with Milan, Novara and Ivrea, one of the most prosperous cities in the ancient Transpadane region during ...

At the border between Italy and France, in the Natural Park of the Maritime Alps, surrounded by trees, streams and lakes, you can find Verante, a small municipality in the province of Cuneo, famous all over the world as “the village of Pinocchio”. No, I am ...

Pella is a small town on Lake Orta, a small landscape "pearl" nestled in the Alps.Ph. Cristina CumboIt is a place where you can seek and find peace, but also a site rich of history that emeges from those winding and uphill streets. Walking ...

There is a peak, the highest of the Mergozzolo group, that raises between Lake Orta and Lake Maggiore. It is popular as the Mountain of two lakes but even better known, from 1880s as Mottarone. It is a hilly-mountainous massif that, as you have probably ...