The splendid Villa della Pergola, also known as Villa Hanbury, Alassio (Ligury), is the subject of a new book published by the Italian publishing house Mondadori. Entitled: Un Sogno Inglese in Riviera (An English Dream in the Riviera), with the subtitle: Le stagione di Villa della Pergola (the seasons of Villa della Pergola), the book recounts the history of the 19 th century manor house and its magnificent 22,000 sqm garden.
A recreation of the ancient gardens of Rome provides a plus for garden lovers exploring Rome's Palatine Hill this summer. Archaeological gardeners have replanted the flower and kitchen gardens of the House of Augustus, the Nymphaeum and stadium of Domitian and the Domus Flavia, both with the original plants used in Roman times, or else creating special floral compositions to recall erstwhile visual effects.
The town of Pienza (Umbria), totally redesigned as an ideal city by Pope Pius II and consecrated in 1462, welcomes back one of its most famous treasures after a delicate 2-year restoration operation carried out by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
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The city of Bergamo is petitioning for the return of one of its most famous sons, the Italian sculptor, Giacomo Manzù. Manzù, whose works include the monument to the Partigiano (Partesan Fighter) at Bergamo and the Doors of Death in St. Peter's basilica, Rome, lived and worked for the last thirty years of his life at the historic town of Ardea, some 30 kms from Rome. He was buried in the park surrounding his studio in 1992, where there is also a museum dedicated to his work.
The second edition of Italian Slow Food Day will be celebrated on the 26 May 2012, with 300 piazzas, markets, streets and gardens all over Italy displaying and selling local seasonal produce.
Recent checkups by tree doctors have revealed the sad fact that 105 of the venerable umbrella pine trees in Rome's Villa Borghese park, celebrated in Italian composer Ottorino Respighi's symphonic Roman Trilogy, are fatally ill.
After a pause of 21 years, the Premio Murano (Murano Glass Prize) has been reintroduced in 2012 to encourage confrontation between contemporary art and traditional Murano Glass Masters, with the special addition of a Premio Murano Junior reserved for young artists.
The village of Pievasciata in the heart of Chiantishire has reinvented itself as a centre of contemporary art. Near Castelnuovo Berardegna, in an area where many foreigners have set up second homes, Pievasciata has given itself an original image with a series of contemporary art works distributed around its territory.
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