Discoverplaces.travel is selected alongside Eva Evola and Aaron Caruso, two opera singers from the Italo/American Bellini Opera Foundation, to receive a prestigious Rocca D’Oro award at the presentations in Serrone. This Ciociarian town lays across the steepish slopes of Mount Scalambra and is a famous centre for Cesanese red wine Read more…
The first of ninety turns on the route to Mount Scalambra is a sharp left hand from the Piglio road near the end of La Forma, the ‘commercial’ centre of Serrone that runs alongside the main road. From this level, the top of the mountain seems close to heaven. Now Read more…
Monte Scalambra today, with Serrone resting across its slopes, is the centre of paragliding near Rome. The mountain was for many centuries the natural protector of Rome due to its incredible view stretching from the Eternal City to the valleys to the south. Today, the experience of free flight, paragliding Read more…
The winter of 2013/2014 proved a mixed blessing across Italy, and none more so than at the foot of the Pre-Alps in the Bassano area where rain filled most days, except up on the mountains where deep drifts of fresh snow left a white cap above about 1500 metres. On Read more…
