The “Giardino delle erbe” (herb garden) was opened in 1975 and is now entitled to its founder Augusto Rinaldi Ceroni. The garden was created with the purpose of maintaining and cultivating special medicinal and aromatic plants. Owned by the Emilia Romagna Region, since year 2000 it has been run by the…
Bergamo is an easy day trip from Milan, taking less than an hour by train. This scenic medieval city of 120,000 people is located in the Lombardia region of Italy in the foothills of the Alps. From Bergamo’s train station a one-euro bus ticket provides you with transportation up the hill…
Almost unkown, Villa Reale Belgiojoso is one of the masterpieces of Milan. The signatures are the same that we find in the Palazzo Reale (Royal Palace) and Villa Reale di Monza (Royal Villa of Monza), which means respectable interiors. Built by the Counts of Belgiojoso at the end of ‘700, it was sold…
The town of Nuuk in Greenland claims to be the home of Santa Claus, it is the world’s northernmost capital and hosts one of the largest postal boxes in the world.
On the northeast edge of the Harz mountains lies Goslar, once a prosperous mining town, and now one of the best-preserved examples of a german town of the late middle ages.
