Tuscany is another Italian region that features an unmissable wealth of historical villages, gardens, woods, wonderful landscapes and nurseries. History, arts, botany and food blend together along many suggested itineraries for any kind of visitor. We’d like to give you…
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DISCOVERING NURSERIES, GARDENS AND TREATS IN LIGURIA
True jubilation of flowers and gardens awaits in Liguria, the very cradle of Italian floriculture, just as much wonderful along the coast as in its hinterland. That’s a region also extremely rich in mouth-watering typical products, such as the renowned…
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Discovering Rose Gardens
May is traditionally acknowledged as the month of the roses, although, thanks to modern varieties, most of those beautiful flowers go on blooming until autumn and even further, intermittently or without any interruption, according to the different cultivars and their…
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Ancient Rose Garden Museum
Among the Italian rose gardens that I’ve visited, the one that probably fascinated me the most is the Ancient Rose Garden Museum, perched on the hills of Modena, halfway between Maranello and Serramazzoni. Set in a wonderful naturalistic context, it…
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A must-see jewel: Villa Imperiale in Pesaro
Summer is probably the best time of the year to visit Villa Imperiale and its amazing garden, near Pesaro, also because they are both open to the public only between June and September (only on Wednesdays and by reservation.…
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I love visiting gardens, large or small, historical and contemporary. Unfortunately, every time I want to do so, I’ve got to leave my beloved German Sheperd Duca with a friend or an expensive dogsitter. Dogs aren’t usually allowed inside large…
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Discovering Castles in Piedmont
Piedmont is probably the richest Italian region of castles: I tried to count them without success and I keep adding them to the Italianbotanicalheritage.com cards, but they practically seem to never end. Many of them have beautiful historic gardens, both…
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The Valley of Biodiversity and food plants
Would you fancy a slightly unusual trip out of town? Well, I’d suggest paying a visit to the Biodiversity Valley, in Astino, a small village near Bergamo. This Biodiversity Valley is a branch of the “Lorenzo Rota” Botanical Garden in…
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Discovering Gardens also in Winter/1
If you think that winter is not the right season to visit a garden, think about the UK, where even in the coldest and most silent season people enjoy leisurely strolls in parks, gardens, botanical facilities and arboretums, discovering a…
Maredolce Castle, also called Palazzo della Favara, is an Islamic-style building in Palermo, standing on the slopes of Mount Grifone, in the Brancaccio district; today, it is almost completely hidden from view by the buildings around it. Presumably built…