Travel Freak

The town of Vasanello, in the province of Viterbo, experienced the peak at the end of four hundred, at the time of marriage between Giulia Farnese and Orsino Orsini, who stayed for a long time in his manor. Precisely the castle duecentesco in tuff, square, and keep cylindrical corner towers, formerly of the Orsini and then the Colonna, is the true jewel. The interior halls hosting a collection of ceramics, and also the medieval garden is worth a visit. Interesting also glimpses in the alleys that make it possible to admire, among others, the powerful mole square bell tower, the Romanesque churches of Santa Maria Assunta and San Salvatore and the special squares.

In one of them, Piazza Ortaccio, Thursday July 10 and for three days later, will start the third edition of ‘Ortaccio Jazz Festival. Organized by the Cultural Association Mexico and Clouds, the edition of this year will perform internationally renowned artists Rosario Giuliano, Fabian a Rosciglione, The Old Circus Band Jazz and Rita Marcelline’s.L ‘OJ Festival this year also will present the latest news from a special section dedicated to writing: “Books in jazz.”

For now, is only a proposal that leads But the signing of who is running the policy of cultural property in Sicily and will end soon on the table of the junta Lombardo.

To make possible more profitable management of cultural property in Sicily we have entrusted to a private quality package complete with a tourist site for thirty years. I think for example to the Valley of Temples or reek theater of Syracuse. In exchange for the management of our artistic heritage - says Antinomy’s  individuals will guarantee a fixed fee and some works to be carried out nell’indotto. I think the roads or a certain number of hotels. In the case of the Valley of the temples could ask individuals to improve the highway Palermo-Agrigento and a heliport.

The proposals dell’assessore regional Antinomy not stop here, could be included in the proposal also the ancient theater of Taormina, Selinunte or the Palatine Chapel, but the complete list should be agreed with the Department regional tourism.

This is a proposal that is opening up many controversies, the Valley of the Temples is visited annually by 700 thousand tourists and considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, but indicated for years as a symbol of aggression cement to the beauties of monumental Country. But privatization is the solution to the difficulties of ownership? Tell us yours.

Responsible Tourism. Tourism not to forget. Tourism to hope. These are in short lines that guide those who want to know Sicily through ALI Cooperative Environment Legality and culture that among its activities also those of tourist agency for the area of Palermo, but not alone.

Among the proposed routes are those that lead the visitor to the many meetings with local realities clean and honest. But even the knowledge of memory, for example, through with the meeting of the elderly Portella della Ginestra, witnesses to the massacre of 1 May’47, or to visit Piana degli Albanesi, (where, among other things you can eat a the Sicilian cannoli better) as an example of coexistence between cultures his meeting with the Maghreb community of Mazara del Vallo visiting the House of Memory in Cinisi, where mother Felicia, the mother of Peppino Impastato, welcoming visitors, the meeting with cooperatives and associations working on goods confiscated to mafia.

Four great Parisian museums - the Louvre, Orsay, the Pompidou Centre, Guimet-remain as predictable leading the annual journal of Arts French edition. New entry for Roubaiz with his “Swimming Pool” at the top of the standings. These museums occupy Parisians like last year the first four positions of this ranking, which was drawn up annually for the past five years using criteria such as how welcoming the public, initiatives and policies of conservation.

The museum is Brainly head for the reception of the public (closures later in the evening, access for disabled, young audience, cards explanation), the Louvre for the dynamism (number of works on show, exhibitions, conferences, resturi) and Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou for the preservation of books (number of employees, and works lent acquired).

Referring to the initiative of the first half of the entrance free, the newspaper noted that “free does not necessarily mean greater frequency,” with a “slowdown” in the number of visits to museums in Paris free since 2001.

Until June 30, in the beautiful French capital, but also across the country, not pay the ticket in museums. In Paris and the region dell’Ile de France will be free museum Guimet, the museum of Cluny, the museum of arts and crafts, the museum of Renaissance in Ecouen and national archaeology at Saint Germain in Laye.

Ticket Free eight other French museums: the Museum of the Navy in Toulon, Adrien Dubouché in Limoges, Magnin in Dijon, the episcopal palace of Reims, Palazzo Jacques Coeur in Bourges, the Chateau d’Orion, the National Museum of Pau Castle and the Castle of Pierrefonds.

This initiative comes at the hands of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication to promote art and culture and make them more accessible to the public, and if successful, this could become a permanent initiative.