Sustainable Travel

Lifestyle
by Anonymous (not verified) | Tue, 04/01/2014 - 20:00
It is widely known that Venice's lagoon ecosystem is heavily contaminated due to industrial waste, causing a serious impact on the animal and plant life.…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 03/18/2014 - 21:15
The attempt to ban large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon has just suffered a setback. A regional administrative court on Monday accepted a…
Lifestyle
by Anonymous (not verified) | Mon, 03/17/2014 - 00:16
A spirit both entrepreneurial and green characterized the last edition of Coldiretti’s Green Oscars, when young Italians presented their creative ideas to…
Culture
by Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 02/07/2014 - 00:45
The Ecomuseo Mare Memoria Viva (The Living Museum of the Sea) is slated to open tomorrow in Palermo. The museum will be promoting a series of coastal…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 12/20/2013 - 04:00
The Christmas tree greeting visitors at the entrance of the Re Mida Center near Bologna is both beautiful and environmental-friendly. Made entirely from…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 12/17/2013 - 03:46
The latest eruption of Italy's Mount Etna was a particularly intense and spectacular one: bursts of lava fountains and moving plumes of ash, as well as violent…
Lifestyle
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/08/2013 - 07:00
Large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon are to be banned effective November 2014, and a limit on smaller cruise vessels will kick in January,…
Lifestyle
by Carol King | Mon, 11/04/2013 - 05:45
An Italian man who has spent 40 years building an amusement park in the middle of a forest in northern Italy has become the subject of a documentary.The man,…
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 11/01/2013 - 07:00
Via Alessandrina, which runs alongside Via dei Fori Imperali through Trajan's Markets in Rome, has reopened to the public.It had been closed for more than a…
Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 10/31/2013 - 07:00
Scotland is famous for the Loch Ness monster, Nessie, but Italy’s Lake Como also has a monster: Lariosauro – or ‘Larry’ for short.Lariosauro lives in Lake Como…