Special Places

Vallepietra, the paths, the waters and the orchids

: Tiziana Ilari; Category: Special Places; 30 March 2023; LAZIO • ROMA • Vallepietra

Each of us has a place where "everything originated". Mine is Vallepietra, a small village between Lazio and Abruzzo, embraced by the Simbruini...

Talk to your pet on January 17, Feast day of Saint Anthony!

Blessing the Animals is one of the most engaging religious events in the calendar and takes place on January 17, the day of the death of Saint...

: Milena Argento; Category: Special Places; 16 March 2021; SICILIA • AGRIGENTO • Cattolica Eraclea

They had come to that place by chance and, involved by their surroundings, they had abandoned themselves to the scent of the pines and the sea,...

: Enzo Gentile; Category: Special Places; 11 March 2021; MOLISE • CAMPOBASSO • Colletorto

My Molise mother was from Molise. To be exact, from Colletorto. There as a child I spent my summers. I have childhood memories of those summers,...

: Milena Argento; Category: Special Places; 17 February 2021; SICILIA • AGRIGENTO • Cattolica Eraclea

For Easter, the houses and squares were filled with young people who had returned home for the holidays. Holy Week, in Cattolica Eraclea in Sicily...

: Milena Argento; Category: Special Places; 10 February 2021; SICILIA • AGRIGENTO • Cattolica Eraclea

In Cattolica Eraclea every 19th March the patron saint San Giuseppe (St Joseph) is celebrated with religious ceremonies but also with a particular...

: Milena Argento; Category: Special Places; 08 February 2021; SICILIA • AGRIGENTO • Cattolica Eraclea

What could be sweeter when, as Christmas holidays approached in Cattolica Eraclea, you felt enveloped in an air that smelled of Cubbata? (almond...

: Roberto Alessandrini; Category: Special Places; 05 February 2021; LAZIO • ROMA • Albano Laziale

Every 4th February in Albano Laziale we celebrate the great emperor Septimius Severus, born in 193 and who died on this day in 211 AD at Eburacum...