Perfect Posture: the Secrets to Proper Prevention

In our lab it is possible to carry out the baropodometric assessment of the gait: both a static and dynamic analysis, done on our baropodometric platform that identifies pressures and barycantles for a generic postural assessment. During the visit, which lasts about 30 minutes, postural problems of all kinds can be identified to be corrected with the most suitable insoles.

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The ‘Cortonese’ Cuisine of Nessun Dorma

An undoubtedly romantic and dreamy restaurant, whose atmosphere seems to be set to music by Puccini’s Turandot: housed in the historic ‘belly’ of the Tuscan village in a stately palace of late medieval origin, in the well-known square in front of the Signorelli Theatre, we get to know it with a happy soul and curiosity. We are with Daniela Polezzi, chef from Cortona from ‘inside the city walls’, and Maurizio Menci who – with his third level AIS – is a sommelier of rank, increasingly well-known connoisseur of the world of truffles.

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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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Interview with the Artist Sara Lovari

With this phrase that contains the essence of the work and spirit of the Casentino artist Sara Lovari, today I invite you to get to know her better and discover her artistic world where shapes blend with colours and emotions are transformed into works of art. With Sara, creativity and imagination have the power to transform reality, and to transport you to a universe of beauty and poetry, where each work is an emotion that takes shape.

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Not Only Water and Flour

Their focus is bread made with sourdough and stone-ground flours from the ‘Belvedere del Casentino’ company. In the bread display, in fact, we find in addition to Tuscan white bread, Verna wheat bread, ‘Granoantico’ bread with a mix of flour of ancient grains such as ‘Sieve’ and ‘Senatore Cappelli’ and einkorn spelt bread. All flours are strictly organic and the oven is registered with the ‘Verna Wheat Consortium’.

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L’Angolo della Scarpa, 25 Years Anniversary

‘L’Angolo della Scarpa’ can really boast a wide choice of footwear; Silvia and Maurizio think of everyone and every occasion. The wide range of shoes ranges from men’s, women’s and children’s fashion; There is also a wide choice of footwear dedicated to sports and a more elegant section for ceremonies. Finally, you can find a comfort line with slippers and comfortable shoes and an area dedicated to trekking. In short, it is difficult not to find the “shoe for your foot”.

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Casentino Creative Centre, the 3Cs stand for …

The Centre is structured as an educational environment and a training space open to people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures. It’s a place to develop one’s sociability and exercise one’s creativity, participating in the proposed activities and enjoying this meeting place every day.The activities are very diverse in order to satisfy all different interests and needs, both for young and elderly people with whom the centre also collaborates through an active generational exchange.

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Jutta Wilhelm Coerper – Artist and Designer

Jutta was born in Coblenz in the Rhineland in Germany during the War, and went to study art and design in Dusseldorf.  She had always dreamed of leaving Germany to travel, and spent a year abroad studying and working in Rome.  When, after 6 years of art school, the possibility to spend a period in South Africa working for a textile company presented itself, the young Jutta jumped at the opportunity. 

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La Vecchia Cantina di Montepulciano – A History in Wine

Founded in July of 1937 as a cooperative of fourteen local winemakers who banded together to facilitate both the production and the sales of their wines.  Vecchia Cantina bottled its first wine in 1940 during the war.  After the difficult war years, in the 1950’s and the reorganization of the lands, the Vecchia Cantina acted as a driving force for wine production in the area, a role that they cover to this day with the over 400 member vineyard owners and over a thousand hectares of vineyards producing around seven million bottles of wine annually.

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