Casa Agricola Rossi: a Door Suspended between Tradition and Innovation

Casa Agricola Rossi was born from a long project of revaluation of a family agricultural structure started in 2016 to plan the future with new agricultural trends, while preserving the past. The style is aimed at maintaining the simplicity of the environment, adding a touch of originality and uniqueness with unused materials and objects.

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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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The Spell of the Four Chains

I am with Megan and Sebastian DelBrenna in the ‘secret underground’ of Palazzo Alfieri Venuti under the vaults still covered with marsh reeds of the nearby Trasimeno—built long ago. There, amidst ethereal and graceful displays, precious treasures of artisan joy and magic are carefully preserved. An ancient wine press dating back to 1634 stands proudly in a niche, exuding power and history. The place is adorned further with vintage bottles, hinting at an elegant and joyful way of life, or as the Italians call it, ‘bella vita.’

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Gianluca Bianchini, The Eye of the Solver

Entrepreneur, audio video professional, communicator, writer and film lover – Gianluca reminds us how entrepreneurship has changed and how it requires a rather scrupulous multifunctional and multi-sectoral approach, with the timely help and expertise of consultants and ad hoc professionals and maintaining a great open-mindedness, to be able, when the circumstance requires him to ‘think out of the box’

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L’Agresto dell’Amiata

The grapes harvested in the pre or early veraison phase are pressed, cooked and then cold flavored with a blend of herbs from the Amiata area including: juniper berries (Juniperus communis), chives (Allium schoenoprasum), carline roots (Carlina acaulis), wild garlic (Allium ursinum) and white onion (Allium cepa). The purpose is to enhance a mountain on whose slopes grapes have always been grown through which great wines will be obtained, and – at higher altitudes – aromatic herbs that grow abundantly and characterize the territory for its wealth of endemic specimens, making dell’Amiata, as Father Ernesto Balducci said, a “precious casket”.

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The alchemy of the Divò

Imagine entering a place that takes your breath away, with golden proportions and considerable size. Imagine the solemnity of its historical vestiges cloaked in a modern and vibrant twist. You are at Divò, the former ancient Galleria Bruschi in Piazza San Francesco, in the heart of the city of Francesco Petrarca. History, cuisine and culture of ‘mixology’ here come together in an admirable laboratory of taste, combining tradition and creative flair, in a legendary journey of unusual emotions and sensations.

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Aboca Experience: from the ‘Museum of Herbs’ to the ‘Garden of Piero’

Thus we begin our journey from the “Museum of Herbs”, which winds through the rooms of the prestigious Renaissance building Bourbon del Monte. At the entrance, an ancient stone set on a wall reports an inscription: Prodest-Obest (Benefits-Harms), probable reference to the activity that was carried out in the building: the art of spices. The message immediately brings attention to the delicate balance and wisdom necessary in the preparation of medicines.

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Umbria Airport, All Crazy for the Green Heart of Italy

Chosen by very popular worldwide stars – but since the 1980s also from a large number of Anglo-Saxon and continental families – Umbria has now little to demonstrate. His admirable combination of spirituality, healthiness of the environment, variety and beauty of the landscape, magnified by the generous welcome of its major cities as well as country and mountains hamlets – make it a sort of centre of the world, where serenity of mind, light -heartedness, green of woods reigns.

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Slow Horse, real horse people

“Our aim  ̶  Marco tells ValleyLife ̶ is to offer ourselves as the go-to place for everything related to equestrian culture, and to constantly emphasize the enormous physical, mental and even spiritual benefits born from the relationship one can  establish with this wonderful animal; it’s no coincidence our motto is ‘Wellbeing for horses and people’.

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Ubaldo Flamini, The House Master

Great news in the tourist rents market, The House Master represents a very valid option to put a property ‘without worries’ on the market; Calculating the real and emotional cost of managing all the administrative and practical aspects, if we add the necessary time and skills, are we really sure that the management on our own, autonomous, is the best solution? The company deals with optimizing profits by fully managing the structures, leaving the owners the right to choose the period in which to enjoy their home.

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In the footsteps of Giotto, Beato Angelico and Cimabue: the breath of nature at the rhythm of art

In Mugello there are paths that retrace the footsteps of the great artists to whom it gave birth. We are talking about the path of the painters Giotto and Cimabue conceived and designed by the Vicchiese Hiking Group (Gev) and created in collaboration with the municipal administration of Vicchio. An evocative path for its uncontaminated and precious nature because it leads to visit the places where these famous painters lived.

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