Information and Culture in the Apennines
Forca d'Ancarano picnic area (Norcia)
By Redazione Published: 28/05/2012
Forca di Ancarano is just under 6 kilometres from Norcia, along the connecting road that leads to Preci on the SP 476 provincial road. The col is at 1008 m above sea level, below the…
Prato Agabito (or Agapito) picnic area
By Redazione Published: 28/05/2012
There are magical places that we pass by almost without noticing. Prato Agabito is a picnic area almost invisible to tourists: you really have to know it to find it, since, what's more, it is…
Picnic area at San Martino (hamlet of Amatrice)
By Redazione Published: 28/05/2012
Organising a simple, undemanding trip into nature at the foot of the Monti della Laga with family and children.At the foot of the Laga mountains there are many interesting little villages, some of them on…
Psycho Vertical by Andy Kirkpatrick
By Redazione Published: 09/05/2012
Good, good, good.... what more can you say about a book that is well written, and even better thought out? But above all written in a gripping way, a quality, this last one, that if…
Magnificat by Gianni Vattimo
By Redazione Published: 15/02/2012
It is easy to link philosophy, or philosophical enquiry, to the “mountain”; often whoever goes into the mountains is in himself already making some kind of search for the “meaning” of his own existence.In his…
"Risk" and "danger" in the mountains...
By Redazione Published: 04/01/2012
An attempt at a theory of "risk" in the mountains.Exploring questions of "meaning" when we talk about danger in the mountains.I can't help chasing questions of meaning. My search, the one that began back in…
...now I know Tiziano too...
By Redazione Published: 22/12/2011
I who know the mountains from photos, maps, hiking routes, the odd rock face to climb... I who have aped real mountaineering...... I who don't set off unless the weather is good, I who moan…
Salto Angel – Stephanie Bodet
By Redazione Published: 01/11/2011
Salto Angel, the highest waterfall in the world (979 metres), is in Venezuela, a place lost in the heart of Canaima National Park...These are places from the evening documentary. Places like these, for lazy Sunday…
Il grande libro della montagna (The great book of the mountains)
By Redazione Published: 30/10/2011
Going to the mountains. Yes, but how? How do you choose your gear? How do you plan a walk? How do you tie knots? How do you climb? How do you behave in an emergency?The…