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22Ago
 

Flowers and Pescia: a colourful union

By: Tour Operator Tags: flowerist, flowers, holland, market, pinocchio Categories: EXPO2015 Comment: 0 Comments
Walking through Pescia’s streets it’s easy to see bright colors and  strong fragrances: flowers are everywhere, their cultivation and sale used to be an everyday duty for Pescia and its population.

The beating heart of the flowers sector is Mefit, the flowers and plants market of Tuscany, where each and every day the commerce of plants and the art of creating them get mixed with the aim to turn flowers into a language: Communicating feelings to everybody who may want to buy them for himself, for friends or for a passionate love.

Mefit is one of the largest flower market in Europe, starting its everyday sales 4am in the morning, importing and exporting flowers from many different countries to whole sellers and simpler flowerists.

Mefit will be presenting its activities at 4:00pm on Thursday 27th August at the Off- site Expo event of Regione Toscana, in Milan, followed by a workshop of flowers composition and flower based cooking.

The Fuori – Expo event is called “Montecatini Terme & la Valdinievole: da Leonardo a Pinocchio”, and it’s located in Humanitaria Cloisters, Via Daverio, 7 – Milan.

Find out the program here : www.tomontecatini.com/en/fuoriexpo

16Ago
 

A vegan choice for Wine international Market

By: Tour Operator Tags: crueltyfree, veganchoice, veganwine, wine Categories: EXPO2015 Comment: 0 Comments
Have you ever thought of a vegan version of Tuscan superclassic red wine? Well if you think this is impossible, you’d rather believe it,  for the “Fattoria Casablanca” has obtained the official certification a while ago.
The company from Siena, developing the production of biological wine since years now, after one last stage of strict controls can add this important accreditation to its production. The idea is noble and successful: embrace the cause of the cruelty-free with the aim to provide a product that respect the original intention.
Cenni family’s passion is uncommon, and their property can offer a large variety of VEGAN Chianti Colli Senesi docg and Igt
Fabio Cenni, who spent so much efforts in this cruelty – free process, is indeed from Montecatini Terme, adopted as a hometown where he’s been studying and where he now works, running the family 4* hotel and leading one of the Hotel owners association of the community.
A presentation followed by an open Wine tasting of the Fattoria Casabianca vegan wine will take place on Sunday 30th August, during at the Off-site Expo in Milan organised by Regione Toscana: it is located at the Humanitaria Cloisters, Via Daverio, 7 – Milan (close to the centre) : be welcome to join us on Sunday 30th of August, from 11:00 am onwards.
Find out the program here : www.tomontecatini.com/en/fuoriexpo

15Ago
 

The Historical Garzoni Garden, candidate as the Best Park in Italy

By: Tour Operator Tags: garzoni garden, park, pinocchio Categories: EXPO2015 Comment: 0 Comments
Valdinievole offers a great variety of beauties and the Garzoni garden in Collodi is surely one of these.
The Historical Garden has been recently  candidated to be the “Most beautiful park in Italy”; locally it is quite famous also because Pinocchio started somehow here: infact,  the mother of Carlo Lorenzini, who invented Pinocchio, used to work here, and that’s why he turned his family name into Collodi.
Together with ten other finalists located around Italy, Collodi is waiting for the winner announcement by this end of summer.
In the meanwhile, the weather allows the visitors to enjoy this beauty featuring water games, the tangled drawings on the green, and the magical The Butterfly House with its little  colorful butterflies.
If you reach the top of the garden you can  enjoy an unforgettable view.
Read more in our dedicated website section
The Villa and its Historic Garzoniwill be on stage during  “Da Leonardo a Pinocchio” , the Off-site Expo meeting  in Milan on Friday 28th August . Find out the program here : www.tomontecatini.com/en/fuoriexpo
09Ago
 

Landscape and Architecture in Montecatini Terme

By: Tour Operator Tags: architecture, heritage, landscape, spa, tuscany Categories: EXPO2015 Comment: 0 Comments

The SPA (“Bagni Regi”) of Montecatini Terme has reached its peak during the ‘20s, when the Liberty style, somewhere also called Art Noveau, and that’s when incredibile palaces have been built in Montecatini Terme.

Tamerici building, as well as the Town Hall palace; from the Excelsior terme palace to the marvellous Tettuccio, candidate for World Unesco Heritage, up to the Regina palace.

The Architect Claudia Massi has best described the artwork of architects and landscapers who definitely contributed to realize Montecatini Terme as we see it now, comparing the actual sights to aged and evocative pictures or paintings.

Decorative elegance and strong linearity, together with decorations imitating plants and flowers: that’s what French Art Noveau brought to Italy, Tuscany and expecially to Montecatini Terme. The candidacy to World Unesco Heritage originates from this peculiarity, as Beatrice Chelli, coordinating the committee since 2009, may well underline during the Book presentation at the Off-site-Expo to be held at the Chiostri Umanitaria in Milan, Via Daverio 7 at 3pm on Friday 28th August.

 

06Ago
 

A dream for Europe: a european fairytales road

By: Tour Operator Tags: bambi, fairytales, francigena, pilgrimage, pinocchio, pippi, road, romea Categories: EXPO2015 Comment: 0 Comments

What if the Little Mermaid from Denmark met Pippi Longstockings on a Sunday family walk? How could they say hallo? And what if Don Chisciotte came across Peter Pan halfway between Spain and Uk, would they recognize theirs are both strange fights?

Seemingly these are the weird and fun questions that came across my mind the first time that i kept thinking about this inspiring idea, creating one unique fairytales road for the whole Europe, unifying countries from north to south, and characters of all kinds, with one common side. They are the inhabitants of any child fantasy, therefore they exist.

All the historical roads crossing europe were not created, they were simply the best ways to link religious or pilgrimages main spots, answering the urgence of a population who did not part everyday life from life after death: this happened for the Francigena road, for the Romea track and for many others, until Jerusalem.

A European fairytales road is an unprecedently tried experiment of truly starting to share cultures within Europe: we’ve been spending years in finding common rules because we have a common cultural heritage, but one of the most difficult things to realize is a cultural exchange between the diverse countries, so peculiar they are. This inspiring project was indeed started from the inspiring (no wonder!) magic world of Pinocchio: the Collodi Foundation presented the project at the European Cultural committee in Brussels, and it was immediately spotted as one of the best projects since centuries.

The fairytales road is already a reality in Collodi, now. Let’s make it happen throughout Europe.

Read More at http://www.virtualpinocchio.eu/