Daria Rubboli: The Radiant Soul of Umbrian Ceramics

Born in Fabriano in 1852 and already skilled in the ceramic arts, Daria chose Gualdo Tadino not only as a place of the heart but as fertile ground for her ambition. Alongside her husband, Paolo Rubboli, she mastered and perfected the secrets of the lustre technique—an ancient and difficult art requiring absolute mastery over kiln temperatures.

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Haute Carture: The Paper Soul Between History and Symbolism

Cinzia Verni’s artistic journey is a captivating narrative that weaves together the elegance of Alta Moda with experimental research into paper as a medium. She took her first steps in the heart of fashion design, collaborating with Emma Bini, a designer for prestigious Italian icons such as Valentino (Oliver), Versace (Versus), Gianfranco Ferré (Oaks), and Fendissime.

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Orme del Mugello: 14 routes for those who don’t seek the destination, but the journey

The project is built on a simple and powerful idea: this territory holds a layered, rare, often hidden history. Driving through it is not enough. A weekend with a weather app open is not enough. To understand Mugello, you have to walk it. You have to give it time to speak. And you have to be willing to listen, without already knowing what you expect to hear. That’s how 14 routes were created.

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Marradi Art Festival: when words make a town vibrate

After the success of its first edition, which used music as its guiding thread, transforming alleys and courtyards into unexpected stages, this year the festival takes a further step, more intimate and more courageous: the theme is writing. Words. The ones that remain, that burn, that console. The ones an author chases for years and that a reader finds at exactly the moment they need them.

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Foligno: a Journey to the ‘Centre of the World’

Over the centuries many important people have had a connection with the city. Among them Frederick II of Swabia, who lived his childhood here; Dante Alighieri, because the first copy of the Divine Comedy was printed in Foligno and St. Francis of Assisi, who frequented the city that was the scene of some fundamental episodes of his life.

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Discover Foligno at Christmas

A different and original point of view to discover its cultural heritage is that of the many famous people to whom the city is linked, for various historical reasons. A city on the plain, central from the point of view of communication routes and dynamic from an economic perspective, home to major fairs and markets, Foligno has always attracted or hosted illustrious personalities. Let’s find out some of them through a quick overview.

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