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…
Visitors of New Zealand can’t miss the spectacular Waitomo Glowworm Caves, definitely one of this country’s most amazing tourist attractions. These limestone caverns, full of grottos and incredible rock formations, as well as the underground river are lit by the blue-green luminescent light radiated by a myriad of Arachnocampa luminosa,…
240 kilometers east of the coasts of Somalia, and 380 kilometers south of the Arabian Peninsula lies a small archipelago. Socotra (also spelled Soqotra), its largest island, is vastly uncontaminated thanks to the fact that it has been opened to tourism only recently. Being very isolated, Socotra has a…
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…
Used in the beginning of the 20th century as a target practice field by the Mexican government, the Marieta Islands, off the shore of Puerto Vallarta, have gained something interesting from those bombings. Instead of destruction and ruins, a huge circular crater formed, which hides one of the most secluded…