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The abyss between history and art. Face to face with Barbara Davidde for a year at the head of the newly created National Superintendency for Underwater Heritage

Let’s close our eyes and try to go back 2600 years. And let’s imagine that we are in one of the most difficult points of the Mediterranean…

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Farewell to Sassoli! We just have to act

When I returned to TG1 in 2007, in the editorial staff of the weekly TV7, David Sassoli was already deputy director and head of the “TG1 Specials”, so he was my direct superior … It was easy to see …

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Staglieno, a cemetery to visit at least once while alive

There is an open-air museum on the Staglieno hill. It is more than a museum, something rooted in the soul, the other side of the city of the living. It is a monumental cemetery full of statues of a disturbing realism, full…

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Nudibranchs, the charm of marine “Pokemon”

Classifying the living seems to have been, probably, the first activity that involved man, considering that among the verses of Genesis, the invitation addressed to Adam to give a name to the newly created animals, so that they could distinguish one from the other, is famous. A classification will that, over the centuries, has involved […]

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Persepolis, designing emancipation

For some time now, the date of February 1st coincides with the “World Day of the Islamic Veil”. The custom of veiling one’s head, purely Mediterranean and of the immediate surroundings (Near and Middle East), is a practice around which stereotypes, ideological and cultural wars are…

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Chianti sculpture park. A pleasant story of recovery and art

In an oak forest of about seven hectares, art has replaced a boar breeding. The history of the Chianti Sculpture Park in Pievasciata…

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Beatles

The messianic Beatles How much sadness on that 10 April 1970. For many, it represented the farewell from youth, the day we woke up from the dream, the day we found ourselves taking leave of the Sixties, with our dreams of revolution, of change, discovery and wonder. That was also the day the Beatles officially […]

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Turismo Outdoor

Tourism resumes fron outdoors A walker’s passport. To be filled with stamps and visas, just like a common travel document, with the added possibility of georeferencing and being followed remotely, in case of need. A proof that attests the slow, green and aware journey, capable of capturing the soul of the places. Which certifies the […]

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Jan Slangen

Jan Slangen a life at high altitude Jan Slangen is a three-dimensional man, divided as he is between land, sea and sky. Air Force pilot in the Frecce Tricolori for 12 years, four of which as Commander, he owes the definition of being terrestrial to his human condition, but in fact his most intimate aspirations […]

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Italians and Oscar Award

Italians and Oscar Award “And the Oscar goes to … Roberto!” With these words, a very excited and very happy Sophia Loren announces the Oscar Award to Roberto Benigni for Best Foreign-language Film with La vita è bella. A scene that we all know, that made history, and that sees the director climb into the […]

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