Portugal’s First Time at the Festival delle Nazioni

From 26 August to 6 September 2024, the Festival delle Nazioni, a historic and prestigious event that this year reaches its fifty-seventh edition, returns to Città di Castello. The tribute will be addressed to Portugal, which will be present at the Festival for the first time. The Portuguese Republic is the culmination of a precise project idea launched three years ago by the Festival, namely the search for the relationship, the dense cultural fabric that is intertwined between colonizing and colonized states, with a continuous reference – almost a boomerang effect – between what is rooted in the territory and what the ‘invaded’ territory returns and radiates in the long run.

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The 28th Edition of the Umbria Film Festival is just Around the Corner

Like every year, in the second week of July in the historic centre of Montone (Pg), there are events related to cinema, screenings of preview films and short films for the youngest. In all these years, the Umbria Film Festival has made the best of international film culture accessible to everyone and has been able to earn the esteem of the ever-growing public and the consideration of insiders who now consider it one of the best independent international festivals. Montone (one of the most beautiful villages in Italy and TCI Orange Flag) represents a true natural arena and an ideal space to show the selected works and for the meeting between internationally renowned guests, the public and spectators.

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Sefirot Aesthetics: Beauty Secrets Between Reflections of Light

“ The term Sefirot – she says – represents the tree of life and the entities from which it is formed: beauty, wisdom, understanding, intelligence; a profound passage from rigor to triumph. Personally, I Think it symbolizes everything we human beingsare in our entirety”. So,   having heard her words, one thinks that our shrewd beauticians have well grasped, with the name Sefirot, the value of the deep two-way bond existing between soul and body, giving a more holistic imprint to the now well-established traditional aesthetic.

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Take Care of Yourself at the Hotel Fortebraccio

Located a few steps from the historic centre of Montone, in the heart of Umbria, the Hotel Fortebraccio aims to become a reference place for tourist accommodation in the Upper Tiber Valley. The hotel now has completely renovated spaces that the current owner, in almost twenty years of management, has completely renovated, significantly increasing the accommodation offer.

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The Magic of Wrought Iron (Ferro Battuto Valtiberino)

Everything that is created is characterized by quality craftsmanship, creativity and maximum customization of the product. There is a vast catalogue from which to take inspiration for a work; Ferro Battuta Valtiberino is able to ‘give an iron body’ to the personal ideas of the individual user or to a professional project of an architect or designer.

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‘La Fortuna’ Continues… in the Newly Renovated Premises!

As far as smoking products are concerned, in addition to classic cigarettes or iqos, we offer a wide choice of cigars: since our valley is rich in farmers who grow tobacco, we have ‘Il Toscano’ as a point of reference, a historic cigar production company, but we also exhibit more sought-after references such as Il Moro which is a leading product of the Tuscan market and which is made in certified sizes, thus also assuming a value for amateurs and collectors.

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Upper Tiber Valley, ‘La Valle del Signorelli’

Over 20 museums and 11 works on display in the year of the five hundredth anniversary of the great Renaissance master: with a reduced ticket you can visit, until December 2023, “La Valle di Signorelli”, an unprecedented project between Renaissance and contemporary art thanks to the presence in the circuit of the Burri Museums in Città di Castello.

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Festival delle Nazioni Pays Tribute to Italy

This year the Umbrian musical event – number 56 – will pay tribute to our country, Italy, with a rich program of artists and projects of international calibre. Nineteen events, from 23 August to 7 September 2023, which will take place as usual in the art venues of Città di Castello and the Upper Tiber Valley. The focus of the shows will be on Italian music of the period from the late nineteenth century until the Second World War, with particular attention to the cultural climate and musical production arising from the crucial historical events of that moment. But there will be no lack of contributions across the border.

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