Information and Culture in the Apennines
Dolomiti, giorni verticali (Dolomites, vertical days) by Stefano Ardito
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
Climbs on the Pale Mountains… The Dolomites are famous mountains, the most beautiful and most “climbed” in the world. From the years of the 19th-century pioneers to those of grade IX and X, many generations…
Fiori di Montagna (mountain flowers)
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
Knowing, recognising and observing the species...For those who like to spend time in the mountains, a good handbook for recognising flowers can be really very useful.DeAgostini offers an excellent guide with no fewer than 500…
Gran Sasso in Movimento (The Gran Sasso on the move)
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
When, on the occasion of the Fourth Salone della Montagna (held in Rome on 22 December 2007), we met Dr Daniela Antonini, Head of the IMONT Secretariat, we were bowled over by her helpfulness and…
Mountains and water
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
Instructions for building our memoryWithout the mountains water would be dead, nor would it be possible to draw from it the vital resources we all know. Without the mountains the earth would be covered by…
Orogenic phenomena - a brief introduction
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
As we saw in the theory of plate tectonics, the main cause of mountain formation is the collision between plates. Specifically, it is the collision between plates carrying continental crust that would give rise to…
Formation of the Italian mountains
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
The birth, formation and evolution of the Italian mountains is closely linked to the geological history of the European tectonic plate and of the African one.The process that shaped the lands as we know them…
Legends of the Monti Sibillini
By Redazione Published: 13/06/2012
The book, published by Edizioni “Voce del Santuario Madonna dell'Ambro” (Montefortino, AP), is already in its 5th reprint. The price of €8.00 seems more than reasonable for a text of considerable value which first of…
The Caseificio di Campo Felice cheese dairy
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
A place to point out to food lovers: the gastronomic outpost of the Caseificio di Campo Felice. It's a wooden building in the Vecchia Miniera locality.Hikers and regulars of the Campo Felice ski slopes know…
The birth of mountains and plate tectonics
By Redazione Published: 12/06/2012
As two well-known LIFE writers, Lorus Milne and Margery Milne, once wrote:“There are many surprising things about mountains, but perhaps the most astonishing of all is the very fact that they exist.”We spend more and…